"The soundtrack to love in REVOLUCIÓN — 8 sample-based instrumentals and remixes."

"Land as pedagogy propels us to embody intentional modes of knowledge-making through mother Earth. According to Nishnaabeg scholar Leanne Betasomasake Simpson, horizontal learning occurs in context and in a kinetic network of social relations. To embrace a whole-body intelligence is to value a diversity of knowledge: intellectual, emotional, spiritual, and with divine help from plant and animal wisdom. While Western epistemological practices encourage a methodology of extraction, Nishnaabeg intelligence offers an interdependent approach to learning…

"Remembering has no binaries or bounds. Time and space do not apply, but rather we enter a third space that exists to connect us with our pasts, our hidden memories, and the things that make us feel. The western hegemony relies and profits on our forgetfulness, and therefore compliance to keep its imperialistic cycle intact. When we forget we lose the nuanced feelings that make us whole, that help us be present, and help us…

"Heavily inspired by the revolutionaries of the EZLN and Third-World Women feminists, Cherie Morraga and Maya Chinchilla, I wanted to reimagine what it'd look like for my women to go into battle. A mix of militant imagery with mythological creatures that take inspiration from my Mayan culture to embody a decolonial future that becomes the instruction manual for creating an alternative pluriverse for those whose bodies and lands have been forced to serve as testing…

"I believe that revolution is cultivated through motherhood and the ideals that are chosen to be passed down through generations. I think of the initiative my own mom took to raise me and my sister with a close connection to our Mexican culture and simultaneously breaking toxic cycles of machismo and normalized dynamics of inferiority. She refrained from passing down the idea that a woman must conform to the patriarchy and keep an image of…