Earlier this year, Jesse hosted a Writing Contest at UCR

This week on SUBJECTIVITY, we have Jesse Altamirano join us for some good coffee and conversation. Jesse is a UCR graduate, C/O 2016. (Congrats, grad!) Join us as Jesse and I engage in sporadic conversation about the chaos of the universe, being true to the self, poetry, writing contests, and many other things.

My Colored Girls, This One’s For You!  Aspiring actress and current undergrad student at Emerson College, Mona Moriya discusses the difficulties she’s overcome and the successes she has celebrated in her time immersed in academia and acting. We discuss some of the issues women of color face in the acting industry, microagressions, and the need to address issues women of color face in many institutions.

Special thanks to our New Roads School mentors and instructors who have encouraged students like Mona (and myself) to challenge institutions who need to be called out on their bulls***. Bryan Sanders, thank you for introducing us to Kerouac and challenging us to think in alternative ways! Sean Brookes, thank you for teaching us to think critically and to never be afraid to voice the injustices we see or face.

PS, sound quality was affected by outside noise, my apologies!

One of the performances Mona participated in this past year at Emerson College

On this weeks episode: My Colored Girls, This One’s for You, join us as we invite my longtime friend Mona Moriya. Mona studies at Emerson College, where she is working towards obtaining her B.F.A. in acting. She strives to find and create a space where women of color can thrive and be in the spotlight. Here’s a monologue recited by Mona, from Ntozake Shange’s, For Colored Girls. Check it out!!

Full episode will be released on Thursday, June 2! Stay tuned!

*Monologue recited in this episode comes from Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls. Note: Some of the words in the monologue were altered in the production to fit the cast members. Image above was taken to promote the production of For Colored Girls, which was performed by Emerson College students in April. 

**This photo was taken for the ASUCR elections back in April. #feelthechurro #Arturo4Prez

This week on SUBJECTIVITY, we have undergraduate student Arturo Gomez talk about his political involvement on campus and back in his home town. He gives us an inside look at the ASUCR elections and some of the challenges he overcame.

Arturo is a third year undergrad at UCR, whose political involvement and dedication made him the perfect candidate for becoming the next ASUCR president. Though he did not win, Arturo is a man of the people, who is truly invested and deeply concerned with helping the disenfranchised.

Join us as we discuss the UCR elections, Frogtown, gentrification in Los Angeles, and many other things.

Special thanks to Arturo Gomez for taking the time out of his busy schedule to sit and chat!

Derrick is currently working on a collection of poems that deal with returning to normalcy after experiencing trauma.

Join us as we discuss the creative writing process, the kinaesthetics of lock-picking, avoiding overly-sentimental writing, and many other topics!

Full Episode will be posted Friday, May 20! In the meantime, here’s a little preview of some of his work:

In this episode – The Shirt, I introduce SUBJECTIVITY and what you can expect from the podcast! I also talk a little bit about myself, and a specific experience I had with a shirt when I was a little girl. This shirt had quite an impact on me. Check it out and listen!!!!

Stay creative friends!!!

P.S. This shirt was made by yours truly!

This is the beauty of storytelling!! The way you can laugh or nod your head when someone’s story makes you quietly tell yourself, “Ahh, yes! I am not the only one.” I love stories. I love them because they have so much potential to make connections and build common ground. Stories tell the truth: nobody can argue and tell you your story isn’t true..unless of course you’re lying, which in that case makes you a liar..but that’s another story.

For a couple of months, I have been working and developing something special. As an old friend of mine used to tell me whenever I had a great idea, “This is your brain child.” Currently, I am in the process of producing and developing a podcast. Podcasts are wonderful because you can listen to them when you are on your daily commute to school or work. Or perhaps when you are cleaning and need some noise to keep you company. There is something truly special about the emotional connections we make when we hear voices talk, laugh, and disrupt. That is why I wanted to start my very own podcast. I want to be able to tell stories and not just my own, but I wanted to share the stories of many other people as well. The name of my podcast is called SUBJECTIVITY. It is a podcast dedicated to creative minds challenging the world, one story at a time. But more details on that are coming soon.

Before I get ahead of myself, I want to leave you with this: If you like stories and you like to think about the world you are living in, then please stay tuned! Within a couple of days, I will be releasing my first episode along with more details about the content of my podcast. In the meantime, I will probably be pulling my hairs out (they fall out anyway, so I guess maybe I won’t be doing that..) and staying up late with a good old cup o’ joe , so that in the future, you’ll know a bit more about what I’m talking about.

Stay Tuned!!!

Isel Cuapio

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