Closing the Gap co-hosts Tania Roa and Adriana Medina welcome you back to the podcast with a new season: Season 2. To start off the season, Tania discusses her summer living in Colombia and Adriana shares her first impressions of her new home in New York City, unceded land of the Lenape or Lenapehoking people.

Some themes arose from these major moves including authenticity, leaning into change, and being an active participant in one's community.

Resources

• Palenque's Famous Band: ⁠Kombilesa Mí⁠
• ⁠Dr. Shamell Bell of Black Lives Matter⁠

New York City Events

• Rest in Power O'Shae Sibley
• Eric Adams on NYC Migrants
• Eric Adams Investment on NYPD Robot Dogs
• NYC Flooding Shutting Down Subways

Definitions

• Generational trauma - psychological and emotional wounds that have accumulated over time and transferred to future generations

• Gentrification - the process of changing the character of a neighborhood through the influx of more affluent residents and businesses

• Voguing - a type of dance that imitates the characteristic poses struck by a model on a runway (history of voguing)

• Liberation - freedom from oppression, or freedom from limits on thought or behavior

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Cover art by Vivian Garcia (@viv_doodles)

Intro and Outro music: Clocks by Smith the Mister (All rights and credit go to Smith the Mister. No copyright infringements intended)