My Body Remembers What Happened – the Dream City Podcast, Episode 6
Mersiha Mesihovic confronts the trauma of her past and her struggle for self-liberation through dance.
Fi2W’s Greatest Hits – Radio Stories and Podcasts from the Last 10 Years
Audio highlights of the past decade.
Schooled by Their Mothers, These Men Carry On Family Recipes
More great stories from the hosts of About Men radio.
Bronx Stories – Keeping Meat on the Table and Honoring Mom
For two guys who grew up in The Bronx, hearty meat dishes they learned from women in their families connect them to their immigrant roots. John O’Connell and Richard Rodriguez are both hosts for About Men Radio.
O’Connell, the youngest of four boys, makes Irish beef stew, a recipe handed down from his grandmother to his mother, and then to him. “Actually when I think about Ireland,” he says, “I think about the potato famine. Most of the Irish dishes have potatoes. So my Irish stew is loaded with potatoes and onions.”
For O’Connell, learning how to make this dish became a test to see if he was ready to leave his childhood home to live on his own. Here is his story, produced with the help of our friends at Cowbird. It’s called “If I can make that, maybe they’ll ease off.”
*We’re sorry, but CowBird’s website is no longer active, so this story isn’t available*
View more in this series Schooled By Their Mothers, These Men Carry on Family Recipes
For Richard Rodriguez sitting down to a family meal is a “sacred time.” Rodriguez, whose parents came from Puerto Rico, remembers Sunday dinners at his grandparents’ house of roast pork, rice and beans. Now he cooks for his own children and has taught them how to make some dishes. His story is called “Let those spices do their job.”
*We’re sorry, but CowBird’s website is no longer active, so this story isn’t available*
Fi2W is supported by the David and Katherine Moore Family Foundation, the Ralph E. Odgen Foundation, and the Nicholas B. Ottaway Foundation.
Men, Their Mothers, and Food
We teamed up with About Men Radio and Cowbird to bring you these audio stories.
Homesick: Dominican Poet Francis Mateo on Washington Heights, Nostalgia, and Identity
“My American Dream is creating … as an actor, as an artist as a poet.”
‘My Lolo Screamed at Me: Why Are You Telling the Family Stories?’
Performance artist and activist Kilusan Bautista has a personal brand of hip hop theater. His latest work, ‘Universal Filipino,’ is a solo theatrical piece debuting in New York this weekend. Jocelyn Gonzales sat down with Bautista to find out more about his background and art in an interview for TheFilAm.
Festival Highlights Asian Culture & Immigrant Advocacy in NY: An Audio Slideshow
The sights and sounds of the 31st annual Asian Pacific American Heritage Festival in New York City.
Stories
New York Exhibit Uses Innovative Technology to Create Soundscape of Immigrant Stories
Our own Jocelyn Gonzales visited the Museum of Jewish Heritage in lower Manhattan to check out a new interactive exhibit called Voices of Liberty.
Stories
FI2W Video: New York March for Worker and Immigrant Rights in Union Square
A second pro-immigration reform rally took place in New York in Union Square on Friday. While attendance was sparse in the early afternoon, more activist groups had arrived by the time speeches and performances begun at 4 pm, amid chants of “Sí, se puede” (“Yes, we can”.)
Rain came soon and forced protesters to duck under blue tarps or even their own banners and picket signs. Many did not leave. “Although the rally filled the plaza on the south end of the park, the attendance was nowhere near the numbers we saw in 2006 or even last year,” reports Feet in 2 Worlds senior producer Jocelyn Gonzales, who created the video below.
Read about the other march for immigration reform that took place in New York on Friday.
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