Ep7w/Roberto Alfaro: Mexico City to LA to Memphis, Poetry, The Mysterious Pachita, La Catrina & Classism in Mexico

This episode is a recorded interview with Memphis poet, free thinker, and my good friend Roberto Alfaro. (slight audio issues)
     In our conversation, we discuss:

• Mexican Identity
• Mexican-African American relations in Memphis
• Poetry
• Roberto's experience growing up in Memphis
• The story of a mysterious mystic and shaman woman known as Pachita
• La Catrina as a memento mori and satircal response to classism in post-colonial Mexico
• Sistema de castas and race in Latin America
• Mesoamerican/Pre-hispanic mythology

I hope you enjoy the episode! Stay tuned for more! Thank you for listening!
Gracias por escuchar! Espero que haya disfrutado de este episodio.

Intro music by Melvin Lindsay: melvin.lindsay.jr@gmail.com


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Pachita:

•  https://mexicounexplained.com/pachita-psychic-surgeon-medium-mystic/
• https://mxcity.mx/2015/10/pachita-la-curandera-mexicana-mas-famosa-de-la-ciudad-de-mexico/

Sunrise/Sunset Meditation:
 https://treehouserecoverypdx.com/addiction-blog/sunrise-sunset-meditations/#:~:text=Sunrise%20Meditation&text=Sit%20in%20a%20comfortable%20seated,you%20like%20to%20leave%20behind%3F