Bori-Qué: Recent Episodes
Caroline Gómez
A podcast series about Puerto Rico and Puerto Rican stories. Hosted by Caroline Gómez a Boricua living in Brooklyn. This is a weekly series where the hosts talks with Puerto Ricans about the realities facing the island. There will be discussions about Puerto Rico's colonial history with the United States, popular culture, politics as the island’s national sport and more. Produced by Caroline Gómez and Christian Avilés a duo so lit they decided to do a whole other series within the series called Qué-Papelón a celebration of Puerto Rican culture and the messiness of it all. You may follow Bori-Qué at @boriquepod on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
Caroline has had enough. She's hated La Comay since a child. She's tired of her tired ass wig and her misogyny, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, racism, classicism, politiquería buffonery *INSERT ANY -ISM and SYSTEMIC shit caused by white people in...
Caroline and Christian recorded this episode in person for the first time ever. After a weekend together in the Upper West of Manhattan, they picked up a six pack of Medalla beer and sat down to watch West Side Story for the first time. From our real...
This week's #debate was a real horror show. An election cycle in the midst of a global pandemic and economic collapse is a lot to take in. So we’re here to help #puertorican #diaspora #diasporicans #hispanics #latino #latinas #latinx and any and all who...
In this episode, Caroline Gómez talks to her name twin Carolene Fontanet Smith, a Río Grande-raised lawyer based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The conversation touches on the state of current affairs in Puerto Rico, Carolene's former past as a PNP member (PR's Statehood Party) and the incessant project for local and federal governments that keep Puerto Ricans oppressed.
SPANGLISH EPISODE: Caroline Gómez and Christian Avilés speak to VIVALAFANI about growing up in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, with Dominican parents, racism and xenophobia in the island, why Dominican jokes suck, reiventing oneself in New York City and why there is empowerment and agency in reclaiming the word "PUTA".
Christian Avilés interviews Dynahlee Star Padilla, a Bronx-Strong Nuyorican journalist about her work and her experiences reclaiming Spanish which also lead to writing for the Hudson Valley newspaper, The River, an article that examines the relationship...
Caroline Gomez and Christian Avilés talk about Kimberly Guilfoyle, her super intense and problematic speech at this year's RNC and why Aguadilla was trending on Twitter. The unplugged conversation also touches on The Puerto Rico Self-Determination Act...
SPANISH EPISODE: In this episode Caroline Gómez sits down with psychologist and host of the podcast The Beyond Resilience Life, Dr. Lydiana Garcia. A Boricua therapist working in the field of trauma in the state of California. They talk about what trauma means, how it can be a collective experience (Epigenetics, also known as Trans generational trauma), self regulation techniques and unlearning in order to empower ourselves and take control of our own narratives. Caroline Gómez habla con la Dra. Lydiana García,PhD, una psicóloga boricua y host del podcast "The Beyond Resilience Life" Lydiana nos regala su definición del trauma individual y colectivo o transgeneracional. También discute métodos de regulación para tomar control de nuestras narrativas para desaprender y descolonizar nuestras experiencias como Boricuas.
Caroline talks with one of her best friends, Jose Manuel Vera Rodríguez, a former Jesus Christ Superstar from Moca, Puerto Rico. In this episode the conversation touches on Jose’s experience in a rural town as a queer kid putting-on a masc mask to pass...
In this episode Caroline Gómez and Christian Avilés set forth the Justice for Ivy Queen movement, a call for justice and respect for the Queen of Reggaetón, after she has been ignored and disrespected by the Movimiento genre, AKA Urbano genre. The conversation touches on quinceañero perreo parties, misogyny and toxic masculinity in Puerto Rico, what is TRA, and why Quiero Bailar is the most important, timeless and revolutionary song of Reggaetón.
Caroline talks with Jenaro Abraham is a Diasporican academic, born in the American South and raised in Puerto Rico. In this episode, the conversation touches on Jenaro's political awakening going to protests with his father in Vieques during the Navy occupation, growing up in the US and then moving to Puerto Rico at age 15 and Jenaro's own academic research and his theory of "Fragmented Autonomy". Jenaro Abraham received his MA in Latin American History from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. He is currently pursuing his doctoral studies in Political Science at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he's currently writing his dissertation on the FARC's political trajectory. Jenaro currently tweets from @JenaroAbraham.
Caroline sits down with Christian Avilés to discuss feeling Puerto Rican in the mainland, growing up on the rural west coast of Puerto Rico in Aguada and Moca. The discuss how gentrification in Puerto Rico is measured by the arrival of Walgreens to your hometown and other coming of age narratives.
In this introduction to the series the host goes on a journey using the power of memories to explain how Bori-Qué was born. Caroline speaks of community building for Puerto Ricans all over the world and listening as a means of creating empathy. This episode calls upon the hosts memories of growing up in Moca, Puerto Rico and going to Catholic school in Aguadilla with no real ties to the church and the communities in that school. Caroline discusses growing up already feeling like the other, assimilation and watching American tv instead of local so she could better fit in at school. Get to know this passion project with the host. You may follow Bori-Qué at @boriquepod on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.