Jotxs y Recuerdos
A podcast and archive that documents queer life from the Rio Grande Valley and other borderlands. Created and hosted by Alexandra Nichole Salazar, a queer Chicana from Pharr, a border town in South Texas. She is also a PhD Candidate in the Mexican-American/Latinx Studies department at the University of Texas at Austin, where her research focuses on queer and anti-colonial borderland archives, memory making practices, and theories.
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Follow @jotxsyrecuerdos_podcast or https://jotxsyrecuerdos.com/
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Est 2016.
Jotxs y Recuerdos
Angela Randall
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Angela Randall, a lesbian Latina from Donna, Texas, talks about her experience of coming out. She recounts growing up in a racially segregated valley, dealing with homophobia, and discovering her Black ancestry through an Ancestry DNA that connected her family's history to the Underground Railroad and a legal battle over land in South Padre Island. She also emphasizes the importance of the significance of family and community in her life, particularly in Dallas's LGBTQ+ scene.
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Edited by: Amanda Ramirez