• #120 - "I'm proud to be fucking Mexican, and that's on period."
    Jan 26 2025

    POWER HOUSE EPISODE!

    First Gen Podcasters Pauline and Adan talk politics and belonging in their most recent podcast. Their take on the impending (threatened) ICE raids and deportations. This one is a banger. Share far and wide.

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    26 mins
  • #119 - First Gen: We're Back!
    Jan 21 2025

    In this episode Adan and Pauline discuss their first winter break, returning to campus and the existential dread of switching majors.

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    27 mins
  • #118 - Perspectiva Chicana
    Dec 6 2024

    Join Ernesto Ayala is the Vice Chair for the Partido Nacional de la Raza Unida. Join him as he checks in weekly to talk about the Partido, organizing, activism and growing up in the Movement.

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    19 mins
  • #117 - Anonymously Famous: You'll never see us coming
    Dec 6 2024

    Soe and Owahee join The Reality Dysfunction Podcast as regulars with the Anonymously Famous series. Powerful stories to be told.

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    36 mins
  • #116 - First Gen: Pride with no remorse
    Nov 26 2024

    In this episode Pauline and Adan talk about their backgrounds and the support of their families as the began their journey through higher education.

    Producer: Ernesto Mireles

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    25 mins
  • #115 - First Gen Series - The election.
    Nov 11 2024

    This week Dr. Ernesto, Pauline and Adan talk about the recent election of Donald Trump and among other things his promise to end the Department of Education.

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    30 mins
  • #114 - Ren Manning and BorderLinks
    Nov 9 2024

    In this episode Dr. Ernesto, talks with Ren Manning the co-director of BorderLinks in Tucson, AZ.

    BorderLinks is a community-based organization where people collectively learn, teach, reflect, share resources, and organize for justice in the borderlands. Through popular education rooted in place and lived experience, BorderLinks and community partners inspire and ignite action to transform unjust border and (im)migration laws and conditions. We belong to movements for social transformation & collective liberation.

    https://www.borderlinks.org/

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    35 mins
  • #113 - The First Gen Series
    Nov 4 2024

    In this episode I want to introduce you to Adan and Pauline. Two first year students, please take a quick listen to our first conversation. We plan to record on Friday's and post by Monday so that there will be new fresh content on a regular basis. I want to thank all of you who have hung in there with the Reality Dysfunction this far and we're also really excited to continue this conversation about Chicano culture and Chicano politics into the 21st century.

    In this new series I'll be working with students at Northern Arizona University, specifically 1st generation college students like myself, to have on-going conversations about their experiences and coming to campus, the changes that they see in themselves and the opportunities that they have to explore their history and their culture at a greater depth.

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    12 mins