Episode 5 features Dr. Magaly Ordoñez, a Latinx Sexualities Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Utah, and Dr. Gabriela G. Corona Valencia, a postdoctoral research associate in the Latina/Latino Studies Department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Magaly and Gabriela discuss “Archival Alchemy: Chicanx Feminist Memory Keeping and the Transformative Power of Hauntings,” with our guest host Yesenia Ramos, a CDA Graduate Assistant, Knowledge River Scholar, and MLIS Graduate.

Magaly Ordoñez, Ph.D. (they/them) research includes historical and contemporary cannabis culture in Los Angeles to understand how queer Chicanx/Latinx cannabis histories, relationships, and spaces refuse subversion to a capitalist cannabis industry by centering care, critical cannabis education, and abolitionist feminist politics. Dr. Gabriela G. Corona Valencia's research includes histories of medicine and public health, pedagogies of pleasure and desire, and critical archival methodologies.

This conversation was recorded in Oct. 2023 and is an extension of a conversation started at a Conference for MALCS (Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social).

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Irma Payán is a community archivist and active member of Arizona Barrio Stories, an organization dedicated to recording and collecting data and stories from Chicano communities and families in vanishing barrios in Arizona. Irma was born and raised in central Phoenix, and shares her thoughts on food and culture in the Chicano/Latinx community, and preservation of family recipes and food memories.

Irma is an educator who taught in the Roosevelt School District #66 in South Phoenix for 33 years. Upon retirement she returned to aid the district in several programs for an additional 5 years. Irma conducts interviews and hosts a program on Facebook, YouTube, COX Glendale channel 11, Roku, and the Irma Payan Show on Latino USA TV on https://latinousa.live/ too!

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Dr. Rafael A. Martínez is an Assistant Professor in Southwest Borderlands at Arizona State University teaching history courses at the Polytechnic Campus in the East Valley. As a first-generation immigrant to the U.S., Dr. Martinez has learned first-hand the power of storytelling in forming connections to place and community. As an advocate of community-based history projects, he is engaged in public projects that seek to connect academic work with community development.

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