Join our dynamic podcast discussion with MARTHA GONZALEZ, Chican@ Artivista! Martha Gonzalez was born and raised in East Los Angeles. She is the author of our new favorite book, Chican@ Artivistas: Music, Community, and Transborder Tactics in East Los Angeles. She is a crazy talented and wildly enthusiastic musician & singer/songwriter, member of the Grammy Award–winning band Quetzal, and she is allllllll about collective songwriting. But wait, there’s more: she is the Assistant Professor in the Intercollegiate Department of Chicana/o Latina/o Studies at Scripps/Claremont College. As a feminist music theorist and scholar, with a focus on Chicana feminist theory, transnational studies, performance studies, and ethnomusicology, her scholarship articulates the various ways in which Chicana, Latinx and other communities of color utilize music and other forms of creative expression not solely as politically charged commentary and/or community building projects, but as necessary dialectic tools toward various social justice ends. BAM!

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Learn more about Martha at marthagonzalez.net and follow her on Instagram at @marthartivista

Co-hosts of the podcast: janet e. dandridge and Dannie Snyder. Don't forget to follow us on Instagram @ReflectCalibrate! And to visit our website at ArtivismExperts.wixsite.com/RFC-lands.

During our chat, we mentioned the following resources:
- a must-listen episode on DANCNG SOBR with Rafael Cardenas and Martha Gonzalez (check it out at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWN2VwxHg8g )
- the astonishing Virginia Grise (learn more about her at https://www.virginiagrise.com/performances )
- a must-read article, Tending the Taproot: Opportunities to Support Folk & Traditional Arts i the United States by Lily Kharrazi (check it out at https://www.actaonline.org/resource/tending-the-taproot/ )

Below is a list of music and sound effect credits:
- Song "Crown" by @themilkywayans (IG)
- "Story Logo" sound effect by DDmyzik from https://freesound.org/people/DDmyzik/....
- "Applause_encore.aif" sound effect by Zihris from https://freesound.org/people/Zihris/s....
- “SFX Magic” sound effect by renatalmar from
https://freesound.org/people/renatalm...