Remagination

11/20/24 • 40 min

Can we reimagine new ways living and being? Our guest this week certainly did so. After suffering tremendous loss during the pandemic, including the loss of her son, Dr. Robyn Magalit Rodriguez gave up her tenured faculty position as a full professor at UC Davis to become land steward of Remagination Farms.

Located two and a half hours north of San Francisco, Remagination Farms takes up Asian American activist Grace Lee Boggs invitation to "re-imagine everything."

In our conversation, we talk about how devastating loss and heartache can push us to radically change the way we live, and about what it means to take education away from the corporate university to the people.

"The time has come for us to reimagine everything. We have to reimagine work and go away from labor. We have to reimagine revolution and get beyond protest. We have to think not only about change in our institutions, but changes in ourselves.”

- Grace Lee Boggs

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11/20/24 • 40 min

Academic Aunties - Remagination

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Ethel Tungohan: My name is Dr. Ethel Tungohan. I'm a writer, a researcher, an activist, and an associate professor of politics. This is Academic Aunties in today's episode, I talk to Dr. Robyn Rodriguez, someone who I have always admired for her scholar activism, for her public scholarship, and for the way her research and advocacy work always centers migrant communities.

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