On Episode 60 of
@BRCandFriends welcomes back Dr. Robyn Magalit Rodriguez. She returns to the show to check in a year after leaving academia and starting a farm. We talk about retirement from academia, what it means to start and maintain a farm, a commitment to nurturing a community and, of course the question, “Are you Filipino enough?” If this is the first time meeting Dr. Rodriguez, you are in for a treat and some good old-fashioned healing of the heart, mind, and soul.
Here is a preview with Dr. Robyn talking about being “Filipino Enough”
“Let's remember the Philippines, is an archipelago and really our peoples were incredibly diverse. There are multiple languages in the Philippines where literally people in the North cannot speak to folks in the South and that's partly the beauty of it all is that what brought us together, what united us under this umbrella of Filipino was a common desire for, for freedom, for liberation from Western colonization and that's the thing that brough...