Pan con Café by HLSE

Alicia and Amaya speak with Maddy Gastador (student ambassador of the Office of Asian Pacific Islander Desi Student Engagement) about generational trauma within the Hispanic and Latinx, and APIDA communities. We address generational trauma within contemporary representational films, including Turning Red, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Encanto, and Coco.

Alicia and Amaya explore colorism within the different Latinx diasporas. They analyze the implications of colorism through both lived experiences, conversations with other members of the community, and current events.

Alicia and Amaya talk all about their experience with Latin Stereotypes. 

For this episode Oscar & Alicia discuss a little bit about Cuban & Venezuelan history including the migration process to the U.S. 

In this episode meet the new Podcast host, Alicia & Oscar! Give it a listen to know their stories and why they got involved with HLA. 

Join Bianca and Kevin as they chat about the role that activism and politics has had in Kevins life, his vision for HSA throughout his presidency and some of his favorite food places in Gainesville. 

In this episode, join Natalie & Edy as they chat with Dr. Sebastian Ferrada. Dr Ferrada is an assistant professor at Emerson College as well as a co-host on the podcast Cafe Con Chisme. Their research broadly encompasses the areas of queer of color critique, raciolinguistics, and the developing field of Jotería Studies, which merges women of color feminisms and queer Chicanx studies. This episode continues the conversation on the need for inclusivity in the Spanish language & also briefly discusses the erasure of queer identities in the Latinx culture. 

Join Natalie and Edy as they chat with Dr. Jorge Valdés Kroff, assistant professor of Spanish and Linguistics, about the impact of using Latine and Latinx in the Spanish language, the mysterious origin of the "x" and how language can evolve linguistically. 

Working toward diversity in the field of technology goes beyond the classroom. UF Alumni, Michael Samper, talks about his journey from undergrad to his dream job at Twitter. We discuss why mentorship matters, navigating the field as a first-gen student, and Samper's transition from Gainesville to San Francisco --- a different kind of culture shock. 

In this episode, Natalie & Edysmar speak with Joana Paola Guerrero Rodriguez. Paola is a fourth-year doctoral candidate in Hispanic Linguistics, and an instructor for Spanish heritage language classes at UF. Listen as we talk about dialect discrimination, how to encourage our descendants to speak Spanish, identity struggles in Spanish heritage speakers, and so much more!

For Gabriella Nuñez and Luis Chong, the need for coffee and a home away from home brought them together. In this episode, co-hosts Edy and Natalie learn about how the two newly engaged UF graduates began their love story at La Casita and the challenges they faced throughout the relationship.  

Former host of Gainesville's only hispanic radio station, Cady Casellas joins Edy and Natalie to discuss what comes after graduation. She talks about the importance of prioritizing mental health, being patient with job hunting, and how animal crosssing is a great way to cope. 

The series continues for yet another semester with Bianca and Jasmin introducing us to the podcast's new hosts! Edysmar and Natalie are both HLA ambassadors who are passionate about storytelling. In this episode, they tell us about their plans for the show.

Join us this week as we they catch up with Dr. Cecilia (CC) Suarez and talk about the interesting experience of being back home as an adult during quarantine and being surrounded with the familiar practices & values one grew up with, such as religion. Dr. CC shares her story of how her relationship with religion changed overtime as she developed her own meaning of spirituality in her reflections as an "ex-super catholic".

Join us this week as we speak with Dr. Nicholas Vargas an Associate Professor in the Center for Latin American Studies and in the Department of Sociology, Criminology and Law as he speaks about racialization of Latinxs as well as some of his research on Hispanic Serving Institutions and what that designation could mean for UF particularly for Black and Indigenous students. 

Join Bianca and Jasmin as they speak to Dra. Zully Rivera-Ramos from the UF Counseling and Wellness Center about mental health in the Hispanic-Latinx community. Specifically we speak about things such as ataque de nervios and how symptoms have become normalized within the community as well as intergenerational trauma and the impacts it has on students feeling included within institutional settings. Additionally, we touch on resources available at the CWC that are for the Hispanic-Latinx community specifically. Enjoy! 

Join Bianca and Jasmin as they discuss the origins and meaning of Intersectionality as coined by legal scholar Kimberle Crenshaw. In this episode they dive deeper to give examples of intersectionality and how it works within everyday systems and life. Enjoy!! 

Join us as we introduce the topic of Anti-Blackness within the Hispanic-Latinx community. In this episode we honor current events related to the Black Lives Matter movement and discuss different ways to positively engage in the conversation in action and solidarity. 

Join Bianca & Jasmin as we talk about what we have been enjoying and doing during this quarantine over a nice cup of coffee.