The Nasiona Podcast
The Nasiona Podcast amplifies the personal stories and concerns of survivors of oppressive systems and of those Otherized by dominant cultures. Hosted, edited, written, and produced by Julián Esteban Torres López.
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 64 minutes
- Episodes
- 67
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2022
BIPOC Musical Artists Showcase
Today we play for you the entirety of our first musical compilation album, entitled Volume 1: Petrichor, from our BIPOC Music Series. The collection encapsulates all the glorious highs and the searin…
The Nasiona's Earth Day Manifesto
Julián Esteban Torres López lays out The Nasiona's Earth Day Manifesto: "We are standing on a fault line. We’re at what can become a historic crossroad and turning point, or simply a return to the st…
'You Look Like a Terrorist' & Other Racial Traumas, Part 2 (Deconstructing Dominant Cultures)
During last week’s episode, I spoke with Dr. Parisa Mehran, founder of Women of Color in English Language Teaching (also known as WOC in ELT), to explore how white supremacy is at the heart of ELT an…
Racism and Racial Trauma in English Language Teaching, Part 1 (Deconstructing Dominant Cultures Series)
Today we discuss the intricate relationship between racism and English Language Teaching (ELT). We explore how white supremacy is at the heart of ELT and how the industry functions as a racist propag…
Design Thinking & Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Part 2 (Deconstructing Dominant Cultures Series)
In our previous episode, I spoke with Vanessa Weathers, Founder and Principal Consultant at Conscious Employee Experiences, to explore design thinking and its relationship to diversity, equity, and i…
Design Thinking & Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Part 1 (Deconstructing Dominant Cultures Series)
Most environments are not designed to include and value everyone, and as a result such designs fail to center the concerns of those in the bottom rungs of our class and caste systems. So, if we reall…
The Philosopher of Authenticity: Fernando González (Deconstructing Dominant Cultures)
Given the centering of Euro and Anglo authors, thinkers, artists, etc., and the deliberate attempt to conceal unpleasant and incriminating facts about history and other content taught K-12 and beyond…
Intersecting Oppressions of Race, Disability, and Mental Health During COVID-19 (Disability & Mental Health Series)
Today, I introduce you to one of my oldest friends, Joe Sparkman, one half of The Nasiona Podcast’s music production team, The Heavyweights. We’ve got Joe and Marcus Allen to thank for our new musica…
Mobs, Insurrections, & the Radicalized (Deconstructing Dominant Cultures Series)
In the United States, we’ve been radicalized to assume ourselves as great, at the detriment of ourselves, our country, and the world. Our collective arrogance, self-absorption, and superiority comple…
Kwatsáan: Ancestral Land, Myths, & Reparations (Deconstructing Dominant Cultures Series)
A citizen of the Quechan (Yuma Indian) Nation, Deborah Taffa’s writing can be found at dozens of outlets including PBS, Salon, The Huff Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, Brevity, A Public Space, The…
In Between: Races, Languages, & Religions (Being Mixed-Race Series)
The Sisterhood of Teatro Luna, Part 1 (Being Latina/o/x Series)
When speaking about the series of original short stories from Latinas across the states, entitled Talking While Female and Other Dangerous Acts, co-producer of the Audible original book, Alexandra Me…
Isolation, Grief, and Sisterhood While Incarcerated, Part 2 (Womanhood & Trauma Series)
On episode 34, Ra Avis joined me to discuss incarceration and prison abolition. We unpacked how prisons create many social problems, what some of the biggest barriers to prison abolition are, and wha…
Incarceration and Prison Abolition, Part 1 (Deconstructing Dominant Cultures Series)
Journeys: Inbound, Outbound (Inside Look Series)
In case you didn’t know, before there was The Nasiona Podcast there was (and still is) The Nasiona Magazine. On August 29th, we celebrated the magazine’s 2-year anniversary. We continued the celebrat…
Imaginative Biography: PLACES & NAMES (Diaspora & Immigration Series)
The poems in Carl Boon’s debut collection, PLACES & NAMES, coalesce two kinds of history—the factual and the imagined—to produce a kind of intimacy that is greater than either fact or imagination. It…
Global International African Arts Movement, Part 2 (Deconstructing Dominant Cultures Series)
In the second episode of our 2-part conversation, Tori Reid and Patrick A. Howell of storytelling company Victory & Noble continue to unpack what it means to be a prophet in the Global International …
Global International African Arts Movement, Part 1 (Deconstructing Dominant Cultures Series)
It was a pleasure to speak with the two complementing spirits behind Victory & Noble, a storytelling company. In this 2-part conversation for our Deconstructing Dominant Cultures Series, Tori Reid an…
Protesting the Publishing Industry's White Gaze (Deconstructing Dominant Cultures Series)
In the previous episode, Lisa D. Gray, the founder and curator of Our Voices Our Stories SF, joined me to interrogate the publishing industry’s white gaze. In today’s episode, we discuss how we can p…
Interrogating the Publishing Industry's White Gaze (Deconstructing Dominant Cultures Series)
Beware of the white gaze. In this episode, Lisa D. Gray, founder of Our Voices Our Stories SF, joins me to stare down this omnipresent white gaze, which is prevalent in every space, in every industry…