This person who was like, you don't really have to compromise that much. yeah there were editorial decisions like that, all the time, change your mind when necessary, but ultimately you also gotta. That's what drove me into journalism. We're talking about 1994, 1995, right before she died, when she was essentially ascending to Latino royalty. Just see us. Oh, my goodness. And, in todays conversation with award-winning journalist, writer, and producer, Maria Garcia, we dive deep into these topics in a very cool and unusual way. But as an adult, I've come to realize these traumas, or these wounds, that forced assimilation creates in you, they don't just dissipate. Get the New Yorker. And so this has the cultural analysis of that, but it's also just a love letter from me to Selena, it is personal. And it's more complicated than that. It was right in the middle of a huge demographic shift. I was 9 when she died, 11 when the movie came out, and throughout all of my life, and these different milestones, I've come to realize now, as a 35-year-old, that Selena has been there all along, whether it was the last time I danced with my father, it was to a Selena song, before he died. En este episodio, Maria explora por qu el spanglish de Selena pareca tan revolucionario para su poca y, a la misma vez, tan familiar para sus fans, quienes tambin padecan con el idioma de sus padres o antepasados. I feel like I learned to read at the same time that I learned to code switch on either side of the border. En el episodio de estreno de Anything for Selena, la conductora Mara Garca explora cmo Selena ayud a Mara a encontrar su propio lugar en el mundo. and here was this american pop star, whose unequivocally said they're beautiful. All around text says, he started when she was a. She goes, "Well, honey, tell her that if she wants to see a bottom, I'll show her my, bottom." For Selina, it starts out not with this story like, a person by the start out with a moment that really taps into the land it, yeah, you know when I was thinking how do I start this journey, discovery because to learn about Selina way as to learn about myself, because I, Let me now and young women in this country do and that. Can we shorten this down? Now, oh there's more to it, because I see this in the pot cast like it doesn't start there. or walking around in a man's just knowing that I'm sort of being held close by, and yes, there's something kind of powerful and magical about that. time on Jonathan fields, signing off for good life project. Exactly! I thought there was a really interesting moment also at the very end you added in a couple of bonus episodes, one of them being. the states there were new immigrants here. If I offer up the phrase to live a good life, what comes up to live a good life embrace imperfection embrace? And it's a sort of that friction that has stuck with me the most, that sequence where Howard Stern is glibly responding to Selena's death, right? ===Excerpt: Anything for Selena, Episode 2: Selena and Abraham"===. Hear our news on-air at our partner site: Selena Quintanilla is a cultural icon for many, but for Maria Garcia, she's much more than that. And it's like all of these feelings among Mexican immigrants, and Mexican-Americans, and the white mainstream, can pretty much be be unpacked in that conversation. And what if theyd been gone from the planet for 25 years, but still it was like they were present in your life, guiding and inspiring you every day? The Latino population grew by 60% between 1990 and 2000, so '95 was right in the middle of it. That leads to that. The link in the show notes to start with a free sixty day trial, it's time to recognise you. Marlon Bishop is a Peabody Award-winning radio producer and editor with a focus on Latin America, immigration, identity and society, music and the arts. Well, let me tell you, the episode after that, after episode 4, is an even deeper dive into race, and Latinidad, and brownness, and Latinos reckoning with their own whiteness, and it's told from a very personal, personal lens. So many people wrote to me telling me the storytelling in the podcast made them feel seen. They that to the listeners that, like this journey, was Selena that were about to go on it comes from a very specific place. What's let's latch onto stories and actually go deeper, let's go where we need to go. This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Maria Garcia has a distinct memory of when her connection to Selena Quintanilla-Prez began. In this episode, Maria explores why Selenas Spanglish seemed so revolutionary for its time, and yet so familiar to many fans who also struggled with the language of their heritage. And I feel like in that sequence, in that moment, in that interaction, the entirety of white/non-white relations in America was sort of bottled into that, which is that the fight is just like, understand where we're coming from. happening. Weren't expect, struggles that he had in his relationship, ending of your own relationship and again you brought everything to the market, in a really powerful way, and I was curious- why, You know I haven't been able to go back and listen to that vote, It was a moment where I was trying to rebuild my life after my relationship of seven years had, and I was trying to figure out how to establish like a healthy co parenting relationship with the fire, He and I had inflicted some trouble on each other and, and it was just like a really trying time, here was a universe, giving me this opportunity to speak to Chris better. The link in the show notes, the good life project is supported by a script so between the great resignation, quiet quitting and all these trends. And then here comes Selena just flipping that narrative around. I was 9 years old, the the daughter of Mexican immigrants, and so Howard Stern was not in my world. In this episode, Maria shares her theory about how large butts went from a white girl taboo into a mainstream obsession. She discovered Selena Quintanilla the Mexican-American pop icon who proved she didnt have to choose. Subscribe now so you don't miss it! About The Show: On March 31, 1995, nine-year-old Maria Garcia came home to find her mother glued to the TV, tears rolling down her rosy cheeks. Online, Selenas image and music have taken on new life on social media and platforms that werent even imaginable when she was still alive. And that's the gift. Este viaje a la poltica de los traseros en Estados Unidos es a fin de cuentas una exploracin de la raza, y nos conduce a una conversacin largamente postergada sobre la anti negritud dentro de la cultura latina. Subscribe to get an email every time this podcast publishes a new episode. Every visit every day explore more new benefits at ikea, dash, usa, dot com, slash family offer valid starting nine one. On her podcast Anything for Selena, Apple Podcasts Show of the Year of 2021, Garca, who most recently served as Managing Editor for Boston public radio station WBUR, combines rigorous reporting with impassioned storytelling to honor her legacy. He co-produces and co-hostsRacist Sandwich, a James Beard Foundation nominated podcast on food, class, race, and gender across the globe. what it means for you. Is someone who also left behind a high stakes law career for something new? We think that your perspective, Lee enhances the storytelling here or really, sharpness, who are able to bring you back, edit you I'll when necessary, always in service of the story, those who are able to hold your story with gentleness and love, but still, when you are necessary in the story and when you are not to have that team to have people with that perspective in that. by just that's what the container allows for, but. It's this beautiful plant in my eyes, it's beautiful this beautiful, assertive brush that grows in the desert. You can check out more episodes at laist.com/servantofpod. It's like, though, and the calls to me here, you know and to be able to walk out of, front door and see the mountains and see that what is in mexico and see the mountains in EL paso and it just for, like my body, recognises this place in a very vesture away in, and that keeps me here. She won the Grammy. En lnea, la imagen y la msica de Selena han adquirido nueva vida en redes sociales y plataformas que eran inimaginables cuando ella an viva. Thank you! As an undocumented immigrant for over 20 years, Juan Diego decided to focus his works on communities that reflect him. Antonia Cereijido is an Award-winning Senior Producer at Futuro Studios, working on developing new narrative podcasts. Whereas a creator I put my foot down- and I said no we're still, that our audiences on this right with us. You can find Maria at: Instagram | Websites. I need to trust and rely on and open to, like the point of view of other people and. March 23, 2021 In this intimate Q&A, host Maria Garcia and producers Antonia Cereijido and Kristin Torres take listeners behind the scenes for a look at the making of Anything for Selena. I really appreciate it. U sausage, loving genius, for without you. Maria Garcia Twitter Managing EditorMaria Garcia was WBUR's Managing Editor and the creator of "Anything for Selena. The Anything For Selena podcast released earlier this year is a story of how Selena helped shape pop culture and American identity. Sort of like a shared experience between the Latino community and the broader white American communities, basically. [Laughter], I mean, I grew up in a whole other country. I chose that moment because if you hear it, you're like, "Oh, this sounds like a conversation that that can happen today.". What. She graduated from Northwesterns Medill School of Journalism. Al crecer a lo largo de la frontera entre Estados Unidos y Mxico, Mara Garca se sinti dividida entre sus dos identidades como mexicana y sstadounidense. In the 1990s, she brought this underdog genre to international heights. LAist is part of Southern California Public Radio (SCPR), a member-supported public media network. that resonates powerfully with me as well. emphatically storytelling and again a lot around politics policy and around border town issues. Think about where we were as a country in 1995. The series weaves Marias personal story as a queer, first-generation Mexican immigrant with cultural analysis, history and politics to explore how, 25 years after her death, Selena remains an unparalleled vessel for understanding Latino identity and American belonging. You know, but really that was sort of the spark that led to this, wider change in the mainstream culture and. With your own father and then you walk through you like this. You do you, stories woven into this, but it's also there, are exploring along the way, almost like using, her story in your story, as these launching points are not the least of which is, media after her death, even really teat up the question of like, be harmed or raised or not recognise along the way, important conversations that you t up in a very, like that just mention those on the side, but you like now, but actually dedicate a substantial amount of conversation to these. Originally from Fresno, California, Kristin is an NPRNext Generation Radioalum who cut her teeth on the NPR Arts Desk, KQED, St. Louis Public Radio, and as an arts journalist in Russia. February 16, 2021 A quarter century after her death, Selena is breaking the internet. In the series finale of Anything for Selena, Maria reflects on what her year-long examination into Selenas legacy reveals about La Reinas humanity. 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