Thank you! So what I'm hearing is that she's sort of this symbol of that bridge that many non-white Americans have in this country, of being of the two worlds and not being part of either. Ben also co-hosts the podcastEndless Thread, has served as a tech correspondent forHere and Now, and has been a guest host for WBUR programs includingOn Point. This week, Nick speaks with Maria about Anything for Selena, her new series from WBUR and Futuro Studios, which revisits the legacy of Selena, with an ear to trying to unpack how, exactly, she. That's been around for, releases these chemicals. From you know that I loved certainly now that this was not an unbiased account of her legacy. In this episode, Maria analyzes why Selena's brownness is an essential part of her legacy and reflects on how the exploration of Selena's race led Maria to revelations about her own identity. there too. Twenty five years later, Maria is on a quest to understand what it means to love, mourn and remember Selena. I'm just so grateful that I get this opportunity to tell her story, to write her this ode, and to explore myself in the process. ===Excerpt: Anything for Selena, Episode 4: Big Butt Politics===, Jennifer Lopez turned the fashion world on its ear with a bottom that shot her straight to, She came with two limos: one for her, one for her ass. 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. I feel like I learned to read at the same time that I learned to code switch on either side of the border. and I was listening to colombia s- and I was you know, just absorbing my culture. So like, totally fair. It was like a scale that I kind of had to unlearn. to downtown paso. And it's about my theory that there's a direct historical lineage from Selena to the big butt culture of today, 25 years later, and it's a deep look at how we went, as a country, in a quarter-century, from aversion to big butts to obsession with big butts. Maria knows that to truly understand Selena as a person and not just an icon, she needs to go to Corpus Christi. Relatives in Mexico and the States wanted to know if Marias family was watching, too. I can't tell this story honestly without telling you that. I have cousins and ants in mexico and, of course, my parents living. The 10-episode podcast had over half a million downloads and was an intimate journey about belonging in America for podcast host and creator Maria Garcia, a journalist and first-generation Mexican immigrant.The podcast received a nomination for Best Spanish . Thank you so much. You know, why am I? "This journey begins at the border, a place in the in-between where, for a long time, I felt divided in two. We got all these messages from people being, re actually at the interviewer like yeah, they were gone. En este episodio, Maria explora cmo la internet se ha convertido en un lugar en el que los fans honran y recuerdan a Selena, y sobrellevan juntos el vaco que dej. You know in, mexico and with my family, my mexican family, curves and. where'd it to me to stay with the land and connect with that. sent one him over, but also how it brought it brings up you're really. The story shook the country and changed Marias life. At Marketplace Ben also conceptualized and launched APMs premier digital-first podcast,Codebreaker, in partnership with Business Insider. I love the synergy that happens in a group added. The exploration takes us to an unexpected place. This is what I mean when I say my body recognises this place. They stay with you, and they inform the career paths you take, and they inform the relationships you build. There are so many lessons to be learned from leaving a job, no matter what happens after soon learn more about Keith balkans journey exclusively on script, get inspired by, he's broken with quitting today, with a free sixty day trial at try, dot, script, dot, com, slashed g, LP, that's try, dot s e r, I b D, dotcom, slash de LP or just click. It's such a part of my life, I'm always trying different recipes and supplements. But a forgotten culture war following her death painted a different picture. And what does she mean to you? Listen to the trailer for "Anything For Selena," a new podcast from WBUR and Futuro Studios coming in January 2021. And so this is my attempt at that. It comes from a very specific lands. This has a deep, deep history of, that, though the relationship and has with blackness, yeah I mean it was interesting to see basely dedicate an entire episode to this conversation cause I was, I was imagining a fairly, limited run of episodes and when you're trying to figure out who. And that's the gift. Take me there, you know it had been my dream to do a podcast about selina for years. It's my heart, in a podcast. In the end. She goes, "Well, honey, tell her that if she wants to see a bottom, I'll show her my, bottom." have been a feeling that it has to have been passed down. If I offer up the phrase to live a good life, what comes up to live a good life embrace imperfection embrace? I love hearing perspectives that I didn't consider. La bsqueda de Mara la lleva a Abraham Quintanilla, el padre de Selena Quintanilla. Growing up along the US-Mexico border, Maria Garcia felt torn between her two identities as Mexican and American. Thank you! She was like, beta Latin boom, you know? I want to tell the story of my community. She was like a star in the south west of the united states. The book highlights living on your own terms by not just, jobs, but also changing cities even leaving relationships that don't serve you anymore, I can we lay two elements of this story. Selena Quintanilla may have built her career singing Spanish songs, but she didnt grow up speaking Spanish at home. She was born in Ciudad Jurez and was raised there and in El Paso, Texas, where her family immigrated to when she was 3 years old. you had that realisation said the little we need to shift to differ. But I got, show them to you, because you gotta know where I'm coming from, for you to understand how much I love Selina and why I love selena, then you kind of, gotta understand me a little bed and I think a lot of people. You know who is this, he's been painted a lot different ways in a very public lion and describing it, Your ability to actually have a sit down with him when he basically said no area, body for years and years and years in and how that led to a conversation that really do so. Tesla. 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. Why do you think that Selena broke through the way that she did? Abraham admits he was a stringent, calculating father to his big-hearted daughter. It has the rigorous journalism and the cultural analysis of Dolly Parton's America, with what I hope is the intimacy, and the heart, and the personal journey and personal connection to a place or people, that California Love has. without us, even realising a causing a certain amount of stifling or harm yeah, absolutely I mean it stayed with me for many many years I I could switch, all my life. Even the New York Times called it the fastest-growing Latino genre in the country. We're here still talking about her because she had such a stage presence. and I was really powerful invulnerable that you kind of like said, were putting mister. That's the gift of creative work, and I'm so thankful for it. I have. I said, I'm really drawn to this place because of. In this episode, Maria explores how the internet has become a place where fans celebrate and remember Selena, as well as grapple with the void she left behind. life through a lens, a possibility and joy. down a pine seen as not desirable, and I saw this shift. Maria Garcia was 9 years old and living on the U.S.-Mexico border when Selena was murdered. when it was time to pick a career, I thought of, the vision journalism because it's the form. It's like boulders. Then of course jailer comes along and eighty ninety seven and play selina and takes that conversation. It was really. This person who was like, you don't really have to compromise that much. I smell creosote bush, which is one of the oldest living organisms on the planet. You know, identity. Keith boykin shares how leaving his job open the door to his personal freedom and success. Huge incident. In this episode, Maria explores how the internet has become a place where fans celebrate and remember Selena, as well as grapple with the void she left behind. Maria Garcia is the Senior Editor of Arts and Culture at WBUR, where she leads The ARTery, overseeing a team of arts writers, reporters and cultural critics. That is expense. Be careful here. like a year when I did when I did my masters to just think deep, headline and being like an everyday practitioner about so I had, much of what we think of as unbiased journalism. Subscribe to the podcast Apple Podcasts Google. 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. If someone is life and her powerful decision to centre the universality of struggle and joy expression and the complexity of love, relationships and power in the conversation I. so deeply john and a move by this body of work and was so excited to dive into maria's life, the story. And then when I was reporting on the story and spending time with Abraham, and talking to Abraham, I couldn't not deal with my own personal pain because I was thinking a lot and writing about Latino fatherhood, and about the relationship of Latino daughters and Latino fathers, and about the stereotypes and the narratives we tell ourselves about those relationships. March 2, 2021 In the series finale of Anything for Selena, Maria reflects on what her year-long examination into Selena's legacy reveals about La Reina's humanity. You know, switching at a very young age at and have the vocabulary to know that that's what. This season and shop legendary deals at amazon. Thank you so much for having me. holding me and protecting me in some way and justice feeling that I have, and I think it has to. like brand new to me, like, oh my god, I am not going to be with this little human. but what an amazing experience to be able to do that. If Latinos were not being erased, they were being portrayed as gang members, or lost dropouts, or teenage moms. Episodio 1: Selena y Yo (Espaol) 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. beyond you know the man made border and what our past. It's terrifying. Well, maybe I could do it and I, the story for a couple of years before the folks at, you are were finally like. It was. Would you do me a personal favor, a seven second favorite and share it, maybe on social or by text or by email, just with one person just copy the link from the app you're using and tell those you know those you love those you want to help navigate this thing called life a little better, so we can all do it better together with more ease and more joy. time on Jonathan fields, signing off for good life project. Maria explores why Selenas Spanglish seemed so revolutionary for its time, and yet so familiar to many fans. So what are the pieces of the story, wanna tell and then what a larger social issues that we really need to dive into the tank, So why are they like? Tejano award shows were glitzy affairs and Tejano radio DJs were like rock stars in Texas and the Southwest. You know, as a white male perspective or a prospect, That's that often comes from the position of being white and mail in this country, and I, do want to say in this conversation that its very important to point out that, lead, reporting like there is something about about like the objectivity of your process. Her bio pick. A lot of people have tried, I was storing a lot of people have told pieces of the story. Growing up along the US-Mexico border, Maria Garcia felt torn between her two identities as Mexican and American. So you you make this moved up to public radio and one of the most iconic public radio stations had been around for a long time where. The exploration takes us to an unexpected place. There still and I grew up. That early resonates are often described. You know, it felt like these old wounds. [Laughter], I mean, I grew up in a whole other country. In fact, it's sort of disk up. En este episodio, Maria explora cmo internet se ha convertido en un lugar en el que los fans honran y recuerdan a Selena, y sobrellevan juntos el vaco que dej. [Laughter] Because I'm sure there will still be some residual feelings. But then, something changed her life. Sort of standard american education in the states, but in mexico. It all boiled down, it all manifested, in this horrible, crass radio fight. Because suddenly--and think about, at the time, where we were in terms of media, right? NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Maria Garcia, host of "Anything For Selena." The podcast tells the story of Selena Quintanilla's life and Garcia's childhood spent on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. The Latino population grew by 60% between 1990 and 2000, so '95 was right in the middle of it. And then, now, as an arts and culture editor and critic, putting on my journalism hat and thinking about Selena not just from my heart, but as a journalist, and thinking, I'm not alone. It was kind of, the kennedy assassination for lahti knows it was a massive news, a banned it was, very first time in my life tat, I saw the same news, headline in like an english national network and, mexico national network. It's completely find that is it the nature of the medium? Journalist Mara Garca initially took notice of her talent when she was only seven years old. how little maria that was deep inside of me, ok like it's ok to be yourself. Think about where we were as a country in 1995. This week: Maria Garcia's radically personal podcast, Anything for Selena, a love letter to la reina--the queen--Selena Quintanilla. I was writing the episode. Today, the obsession with big butts is still strong with idols like Cardi B and Beyonce. She also explores the indelible mark she left on Latino identity and belonging, whether it's fatherhood, big-butt politics, and the fraught relationship with . there's thousands of people who cross the border every single day there. That I saw somebody like that ascend in American society, and ascend in a way that was still connected to her roots, ascend without compromise, and that was incredibly moving for me, and it stayed with me. And I don't think her legacy has been done justice. So when I discovered Selena, this was in the mid-90s, and I like to call it sort of "the age of assimilation," at least in in my lifetime, and I went to a predominantly Latino school--again, I grew up on the U.S.-Mexico border--but there was a hierarchy that rewarded only the most assimilated of kids. it's really a story about belonging, which we all need Maura. And episode 2, for example, is about meeting Selena's father and really going deep into their relationship, and their dynamic, and, you know, he's been portrayed as a sort of exacting, controlling, demanding, short-fuse machista guy, and her as a playful, but nonetheless docile, daughter. was desirable in the main stream and then, of course, her spend this huge evolution since then. I was growing up on the U.S.-Mexico border. I kind of figured that that's what you were going to say. Every visit every day explore more new benefits at ikea, dash, usa, dot com, slash family offer valid starting nine one. The "Anything for Selena" podcast explores the cultural influence and legacy of Selena Quintanilla and how she still impacts the Latino culture decades after her death. She learned Spanish in the public eye, and her mistakes became some of her most famous and endearing moments. I think a lot of people saw their own story in mine. She was a broadcast journalist along the U.S.-Mexico border for more than a decade. You can walk the bordering and be in downtown see that what is and be in mexico in a major mexican city. But then, also, I think it's also because there was a hunger at the time, and there still is. This is something which is which, So pervasive and culture, and then you saying as a journalist, dive into this. on the go so go. But for the last year, she's taken on a different role and challenge: podcast host--and yes, my Selena doula. how did he was a kid and ensure that you have a bit of a different ones like, rather than not, really feelingly. Maria reflexiona sobre lo que su ao de anlisis del legado de Selena revela sobre la humanidad de La Reina. You know, a process- has to be rigorous and sound, and you have to be able, editors, who really held my story with a lot of compassion and love, too much in the story to the point where wasn't relevant what, me down and say we don't really need that or what. Ben Brock Johnsonis Executive Producer of podcasts for WBUR, where he directs strategic and editorial initiatives involving podcasts and on demand audio. And Selena helped change that. You can try, Anything For Selena | Episodio 1: Selena Y Yo (Espaol). Maria Garcia has a distinct memory of when her connection to Selena Quintanilla-Prez began. In it, so powerful and you're. In the premiere episode of Anything for Selena, host Maria Garcia explores how Selena helped Maria find her own place in the world. Poverty is often disguised. in our conversation, which I've enjoyed so much so in this container of the good life project. I feel so honored to be, like, your Selena doula! We're here. [Laughter]. 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