I I dunno if everyone's affected that way, but I know I certainly am it sounds like you are as well. Exactly! every year on the anniversary of her death and on the anniversary of the day she was born, there's a floor. The series weaves Marias personal story as a queer, first-generation Mexican immigrant with cultural analysis, history and politics to explore how, 25 years after her death, Selena remains an unparalleled vessel for understanding Latino identity and American belonging. On the 26th anniversary of Selena's tragic death, Maria heads to Joshua Tree, California for an intimate interview with Selena's widower, Chris Perez. She became a role model for how Latinos could achieve the American dream and find acceptance. Do they own their lands? Maria discovers that it's a story of immigration, money and how two often-ignored groups were pitted against each other. Think about the OJ Simpson trial, this was sort of the beginning of the precursors of reality TV in the 90s. On the one hand, you do you describe how that. Today, we present episode one of Anything for Selena, a new podcast from WBUR and Futuro Studios. She was born in Ciudad Jurez and was raised there and in El Paso, Texas, where her family immigrated to when she was 3 years old. Her family, owned a restaurant in corpus, christie, taxes where her father would make her seeing there-, Family soon went bankrupt and lost the restaurant. I was in kind of a haze when I wrote that. Joining ikea as free wards program that grants members access to always on discounts, special product offers and even in store perks like complementary coffee or t sign up today, for I care family for free and save five percent in store on eligible purchases. Every visit every day explore more new benefits at ikea, dash, usa, dot com, slash family offer valid starting nine one. She won't be shamed. Sign up free 0:00 0:00 local news all the time and it's what I knew and it's what was familiar to me and and it's what I thought, could really make a difference in telling the true story of the border, but, and I realize that I wanted to go deeper, and I wanted you know. Twenty is. See acast.com/privacy for more information. imagining the series. Why has her being resonated with me so much? February 23, 2021 After the premiere of Selena: The Series on Netflix, some fans claimed Selena had been "whitewashed" in the show. You can check out more episodes at laist.com/servantofpod. And that's the gift. Maria discovers that its a story of immigration, money and how two often-ignored groups were pitted against each other. out outdoor sit down at happens with you and him and charge tree, Where are you really, sir, like dive into his life and like? You know who is this, he's been painted a lot different ways in a very public lion and describing it, Your ability to actually have a sit down with him when he basically said no area, body for years and years and years in and how that led to a conversation that really do so. the day before you leave, if you love this episode, safe bet, you will also love the conversation we had with Samir nasri about food and belonging culture and connection you'll find a link to simeon's episode in the show notes, and of course, if you haven't already done so, please go ahead and follow good life project in your favorite listening app, and if you found this conversation interesting or inspiring or valuable and chances are you did since you're still listening here. No, definitely, in a powerful way, and there was this one line that is shared in it and that stay with me receive dismay, the pain of ending, a relationship that feels like I'm reconciling a relationship with myself yeah, I just felt like that last part of it. Antonia Cereijido is an Award-winning Senior Producer at Futuro Studios, working on developing new narrative podcasts. I feel, for Asian-Americans, that that person was Bruce Lee, right? Many people are making a shift toward more meaningful work that is aligned with their values and that's often an uncomfortable and messy process. And it may sound trivial, but what that episode showed me is that butt politics, body politics, is ultimately a story of fetishizing Black features, obsessing over Black features, while dehumanizing Black people. Have you ever been so deeply affected by another person that their story literally gives your life context and meaning and even a sense of belonging? And I feel like in that sequence, in that moment, in that interaction, the entirety of white/non-white relations in America was sort of bottled into that, which is that the fight is just like, understand where we're coming from. But, yeah. In this episode, Maria analyzes why Selena's brownness is an essential part of her legacy and reflects on how the exploration of Selena's race led Maria to revelations about her own identity. Online, Selena's image and music have taken on new life on social media and platforms that weren't even imaginable when she was still alive. Um, I think I'm going to go like, hide somewhere. How would we know that a fun is merely a vessel for delivering equity, smoked sausage to your mouth and that there is no shame in being the first to get seconds, good life project is supported by the chamber, so good nutrition. In this episode, Maria explores how the internet has become a place where fans celebrate and remember Selena, as well as grapple with the void she left behind. Why did I choose this? how telling you the lands that I'm looking at it through, and that is completely shaped by growing up in this. I thought there was a really interesting moment also at the very end you added in a couple of bonus episodes, one of them being. Its not a biography podcast. Selena Quintanilla may have built her career singing Spanish songs, but she didnt grow up speaking Spanish at home. Well, maybe I could do it and I, the story for a couple of years before the folks at, you are were finally like. It's completely find that is it the nature of the medium? Ultimately, this journey into U.S. booty politics is about race and brings us to a conversation thats long been overdue about anti-blackness within the Latinx community. It's just our time, women with the big booty. A third-generation Mexican-American whose research and quest for belonging took her from the agricultural capital of California to the Ivy League by way of the Midwest and Moscow, Kristin holds advanced degrees in Russian studies from Harvard and the University of Missouri. Subscribe now so you don't miss it! Her bio pick. So I knew that I wanted it to be rooted in the personal, that the only way I could tell the story authentically is if I told it from my lens in the world. So I don't think that would be controlling. In it, so powerful and you're. Relatives in Mexico and the States wanted to know if Marias family was watching, too. So before she even died, whether she wanted to be or not, the world immediately appropriated her as a symbol for an ascending Latino identity, for saying, look, Latinos can do this, Latinos can be themselves, Latinos can be joyful, Latinos can succeed in the United States. roots music, mexican american roots, music from texas, from when she was eight years old. So, even though, were still a bit away from peak holiday season. It was so him. So this show is really like a part memoir, part reported story. He attends Baruch College where he is working towards a journalism degree. She graduated from Northwesterns Medill School of Journalism. This, of course, is Oprah, on her show in 1999. Chris shares a side of Selena we rarely get to see, and Maria learns about how romantic love was one of the ways Selena charted her own path. On March 31, 1995, nine-year-old Maria Garcia came home to find her mother glued to the TV, tears rolling down her rosy cheeks. Okay, Maria, how would you describe Anything for Selena? But there were moments, for example, that were, there were some some folks who thought we, too much time on the clear. And Selena helped change that. Let us mourn. In the end, its really a story about belonging, which we all need more of. I'm just so grateful that I get this opportunity to tell her story, to write her this ode, and to explore myself in the process. And it's like all of these feelings among Mexican immigrants, and Mexican-Americans, and the white mainstream, can pretty much be be unpacked in that conversation. She's been this touchstone in my life that I come back to when I need to feel grounded. public radio station that both its journalism, We're making this story like these decisions, possibly say, first, I'm gonna share that like this is my lads and its informed by all this, but but also in doing so. November 21, 2022 NPR and Futuro Studios present The Last Cup, a limited series about soccer and the immigrant experience. that resonates powerfully with me as well. Mara sabe que para entender verdaderamente a Selena como persona y no solo como un cono, necesita ir a Corpus Christi. I grew up. Today, he heads up the editorial podcast team at Futuro Studios, the original programming division of Futuro Media Group. Growing up along the US-Mexico border, Maria Garcia felt torn between her two identities as. The podcast intertwines Garcia's personal story as a queer, first-generation Mexican immigrant with cultural analysis, history, and politics to explore the longterm cultural legacy of Selena's life and career. Maria reflexiona sobre lo que su ao de anlisis del legado de Selena revela sobre la humanidad de La Reina. Sort of like a shared experience between the Latino community and the broader white American communities, basically. Our deep live on really china understand, what's happening here, like what changed, and why and. And I don't think her legacy has been done justice. March 11, 2021 Un cuarto de siglo despus de su muerte, Selena est arrasando en internet. So why is Selena still relevant 25 years after her death? Wait like I love that the core of what I'm doing, but I can't do it in the, I knew that I wanted to keep telling stories. Un cuarto de siglo despus de su muerte, Selena est arrasando en internet. "I'm a little bit big right now because I enjoyed . Because Black women have this bottom all our lives. She was the queen of the hand of music of this roots genre in texas. of the conversation really walks. Weren't expect, struggles that he had in his relationship, ending of your own relationship and again you brought everything to the market, in a really powerful way, and I was curious- why, You know I haven't been able to go back and listen to that vote, It was a moment where I was trying to rebuild my life after my relationship of seven years had, and I was trying to figure out how to establish like a healthy co parenting relationship with the fire, He and I had inflicted some trouble on each other and, and it was just like a really trying time, here was a universe, giving me this opportunity to speak to Chris better. For many people, the kitchen is the heart of the home and it's essential to have a space that really inspires good, cooking and memories in the making. Lionel Messi is known as the best soccer And this sort of harsh refusal to do that. She discovered Selena the Mexican-American pop icon who proved she didnt have to choose. It's terrifying. You feel like you're accepted by wherever you are for you. A 2016 video that Tesla used to promote its self-driving technology was staged to show capabilities like stopping at a red light and accelerating at a green light that the system did not . We're gonna try. Add a podcast transcript Use Google Chrome? listen lee mexican, and I remember internalizing this shame.
