The second season of MÁS Podcast for MÁS Orgullo, created by the Afro-Latino Seattle Movement, consolidated Borders in Transit as a sound and political space that confronts us with the multiple ways in which we migrate, resist and inhabit the world. Throughout six episodes, the voices of Ana María Belique, Johan Mijail and Carla García took us from the Caribbean and Central America to the north-south transit, showing how borders not only divide territories, but also bodies, memories, beliefs and affections. This season denounced structural racism, migrant criminalization and the exclusionary policies of the Global North, and proposed from “La Olla” metaphors and practices of collective reparation born from our roots and spiritualities.
A profound finding that emerged during the production -as shared by Meyby Ugueto Ponce, member of the production committee- was to recognize that migration does not only happen between countries or geographical borders, but also in our lives, in our bodies. Listening to the guests, Meyby found that forced or voluntary mobilization does not always imply a change of physical location: there are also subjective migrations experienced internally. Structural violences related to blackness, poverty and gender create “symbolic borders” that segregate, separate and limit our lives from within, forcing us to move physically and emotionally away from the places that hurt us. This reflection broadened the understanding of migration as a phenomenon that crosses not only territories, but subjectivities, beliefs and spaces of belonging.
To our beneficiaries, to the audience and to the digital community: thank you for joining us with your listening, your commitment and your solidarity. We invite you to browse and listen to the two complete seasons available on YouTube, Spotify and other platforms: there you will find a sound cartography that gives voice to essential experiences of our diaspora.
We would like to express deep appreciation to the MÁS team, the MÁS Podcast team for MÁS Orgullo and the Los de la Voz Lab sound lab for their sensitivity, rigor, creativity and ethical commitment in the production of this season. Their work has maintained exceptional quality even in adverse scenarios, and prepares us with strength and vision for a third season to come.
We remain certain that our voices, our stories and our collective memory continue to be tools of transformation, dignity and deep pride.
