Episode 49, ACT 2: Mauricio Salgado - Reframe Around Repair

Teaching Artistry with Courtney J. Boddie

Hello, PODience! We're back with Episode 49, Act 2: "Reframe Around Repair," featuring Mauricio Salgado. Our guest plays many roles and holds myriad positions as an artist and changemaker and, as he says, is in pursuit of justice and healing through a decolonial framework—seeing, naming and analyzing power structures in order to upset the intrinsic imbalance. In this continuation of Salgado's conversation with Courtney, their chat turns from the "I" to the "we"—the collective. They talk about how, in order to grow as a society, we need to reframe the ways in which we think about one another and the words we use to speak to and about the people with whom we share space. To do that, Salgado suggests that we need to liberate ourselves from the "epoch of disposability" and create new systems that welcome collective growth. One talking point of Salgado's that stands out to us as one of this conversation's lightbulb moments: "Histories haunt. As much as empires try to erase them, histories haunt us. And folks are lifting stories back up, animating spirits to haunt us into action." How does this conversation conclude? You're gonna have to listen to find out!