Kalfou: Community Centered

Kalfou: Community Centered

Kalfou: Community Centered is a collective gathering space for dreaming together about what a better world might look like and taking action to make that world a reality. In each episode, we host a conversation among artists, educators, and activists about events in the current news cycle. Our guests illuminate the structural forces shaping the present moment and share examples of historical and contemporary activism, helping us understand how we got here and inspiring us with actions we can take to move forward. Kalfou is hosted by Dr. Felice Blake, senior editor of Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies, and is co-produced by Felice Blake and Rose Elfman. For transcripts, show notes, and more, visit https://kalfou.ucsb.edu/kalfou/podcast. For more information about the journal, visit https://tupjournals.temple.edu/index.php/kalfou/about.

Episodes

July 30, 2025 46 mins
In Episode 3, professors and students from the Chicana and Chicano Studies Department at the University of New Mexico share with us how they used arts-based activism to save La Casita, a vital community gathering space, from demolition.

Irene Vasquez, Levi Romero, Natalia Toscano, & Nick Rivas discuss the long history of resistance art in New Mexico, the struggle to maintain human connection in ...

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In Episode 2, scholar-activists Michael Castañeda, Jonathan Gomez, Jose Lumbreras, and Colleen Murphy join us to examine the complex relationship between ethnic studies departments and the communities we learn from, represent, and serve.

We discuss education as a tool for both repression and liberation; steps toward building trust and cultivating a collective consciousness; and examples of work that gives us hope.

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For our inaugural episode, we are joined by five extraordinary scholar-activists—Amanda Ellis, Cherríe Moraga, Sherene Seikaly, Chelsea Lancaster, and Tara Jones—for a conversation on how women of color in education are responding to political repression, past and present. 

We discuss how our own educational experiences led us to political awareness, who is "safe" on campus and who is not, and how communit...

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