Las Doctoras Podcast

Las Doctoras Podcast

Hosted by: Las Doctoras

Bringing you conversations about race, gender, sexuality, reproductive justice and more.

Episodes

Ep. 20: Learning to Love Our Bodies (Body Politics Series)

Season #2 Episode #20

In this episode, we talk about our relationship with our bodies. Our most vulnerable discussion yet, we dig deep and uncover some childhood wounds that had a lasting impact on the ways we see our bodies and how we...
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Ep. 19: Podcasting in the Time of Covid-19

Season #2 Episode #19

Here we are in all our rawness, coming to you from the middle of this pandemic. Trying to survive, to make sense of it all, to find hope, and continue our struggle for social justice, what more is there to say?
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Ep. 18: Representation Matters- Our Thoughts on American Dirt & The Halftime Show

Season #2 Episode #18

This episode hear about our updates, how we survived Mercury Retrograde, Full Moon in Pisces and illness. We are deep in our feelings, and using this platform as a therapeutic outlet. If you bear with us for about 20...
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Ep. 17: Parenting with Nonviolence with Latinx Parenting

Season #2 Episode #17

In this episode we talk with Leslie Arreola Hillenbrand and Lizeth Toscano of Latinx Parenting. Our conversation brought up so many topics including generational trauma, mother wounds, gender roles and more. We shared...
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Ep. 16: Healing Generational Wounds with Semillas de Las Abuelas

Season #2 Episode #16

In this episode you hear us talking about how much healing writing this book has already brought us, and how healing is a part of our intention in writing this book. It might seem like it's only a collection of...
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Ep. 15: Shame, Money & Student Loans

Season #2 Episode #15

We get real in this conversation about our relationship with money, and our debt. We reveal the real amount of student loans we owe, and deconstruct the systems of power at play not only in our debt but in how we are...
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Ep. 14: Our Updates for Season 2

Season #2 Episode #14

In this episode we discuss our updates, what we’ve been up to over the summer, and many of the accomplishments we have achieved. One of the biggest being our feature in Oprah Magazine. We originally planned for this...
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Ep. 13: Colorism & Parenting with Norma Newton of The Hermosa Journal

Season #1 Episode #13

In this episode we interview Norma Newton founder of the Hermosa Journal. She recently wrote and published an article for the parenting section of the New York Times entitled “I’m Darker than my daughter. Here’s Why...
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Ep. 12: Chicana Motherwork with Michelle Tellez & Judith Perez-Torres

Season #1 Episode #12

In this episode we talk with Michelle Tellez and Judith Perez-Torres of Chicana Motherwork. They just released their book entitled The Chicana M(other)work Anthology, a collection of essays that “weaves together...
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Ep. 11: Redefining Activism with Dra. Lucha Arevalo & Jovita Murillo Leon

Season #1 Episode #11

In this episode we continue our conversation with Lucha and Jovita. We start right where we left off, discussing the struggles and challenges of academia, the specific pressures we feel to produce, to hustle, to...
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Ep. 10: Femtorship with Lucha Arevalo & Jovita Murillo Leon

Season #1 Episode #10

In this episode we interview Lucha Arevalo and Jovita Murillo Leon, two fellow academic mujeres doing amazing work in education public policy and public health respectively. This is our 10th episode and therefore...
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Ep. 9: Spirituality & Social Justice

Season #1 Episode #9

We discuss the topics of spirituality in relationship with social justice. We have witnessed that the conversation around spirituality is too often focused solely on positive thinking or the idea of love and light. We...
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