Cultural approach to social change w/Talia Molé
I’m excited to share this interview with you.
See Talia Molé’s bio:
Talia Molé believes in the artist as a rebellious and revolutionary teacher whose purpose is to disrupt the status quo inspiring conversations that lead to greater questioning and awakening within a communal body. As an artist, she has dedicated her time to understanding social change through different social spaces and disciplines within academia and beyond. She molded and polished her role as an activist/scholar with the help of a B.F.A. in Theatre Performance, an M.S. in Counseling, and a Ph.D. in Anthropology and Social Change. Her field of research and exploration emerges from lived expressions of mother/motherhood/mothering, within marginalized populations, that serve as a radical remembrance of matriarchal ancestry, lineage, and community.
Braiding multiple artistic mediums with counseling modalities and traditional practices (such as storytelling, meditation, breathing techniques, and image cards), Talia finds joy in facilitating difficult conversations, while holding space for healing and creative exchange. Her greatest goal is to continue using her artistry as a process of learning and (un)learning that inspires the disruption of systems of oppression, cultivates fruitful curiosity, and nurtures aesthetic platforms that generate collaborative imagining toward meaningful revolutions. She is currently working on her forthcoming book “Motherhood Phoenixing: Queer REBELations.”
Listen on the go:
Watch Youtube (4 parts) :
It was an honor to hear a brave and gentle voice to push against dominant culture’s narrative. The wisdom Talia carried onto the interview touched me deeply.
How to follow and connect with Talia.
LinkedIn~
Talia Molé, Ph.D., MFT, MHC, CHI™
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tmtalia/
Podcasts and episodes~
La Vida Más Chévere: de Childfree Latinas https://podcast.pauletteerato.com/1948831/14126930
Matter of Life and Debt https://matteroflifeanddebt.com/episode-52-matriarchies-shifting-paradigms/
Short film regarding my dissertation (YouTube)~
CIIS "Work that Matters" Series~
Queering Motherhood: An Inquire with Talia Molé
Queering Motherhood: An Inquiry with Talia Molé
Talia’s Book Recommendations:
Reproductive Justice- An Introduction, by Loretta Ross , Rickie Solinger
The Dawn of the Everything: A New History of Humanity, by Graeber, David; Wengrow, David
Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines, Editor Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens, Mai’a Williams
As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance, by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, Edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Emergent Strategy, by adrienne maree brown
Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality, by Gloria Anzaldua
