The Decolonizing Medicine Podcast

Jana Lynne Caldetera Umipig, mother of Kalilaya Amorosa Umipig-Candelario, life partner of Enmanuel Candelario and daughter of Rosemarie Caldetera Umipig (Pagudpud, Ilokos Norte) and Godofredo Peralta Umipig (Santa Maria, Ilokos Sur) was born and raised in Honolulu on the Kingdom of Hawaii and also raised on Yokuts Territory (Stockton, CA). Her current and closest relation to land is the Lenape Territory (Bronx, NY). She is a cultural organizer and knowledge bearer  and does so through her multidisciplinary artistic expression/creation work, role as an educator and sharer of knowledge and as an intuitive and bodywork healer in uplifting the healer within all who come to exchange with her. She is also a practiced Filipino Martial Artist in the discipline of Kali, through the school of Pekiti Tersia.  JL also works as a Grief Worker Death Doula supporting communities and families in creating rituals to honoring on going relationships with those in their lives who have transitioned Spirit Side. She centers much of this work as in all other work on supporting children and youth’s relationships to loss and death as well as supporting families who have their lost children. In service of the Pilipin@/x community where she is rooted in ancestry, she holds legacy with the Center for Babaylan Studies as a core member for 10 years, host of podcast Kultivating Kapwa and founder of CfBS Decolonization School and Co-founder and Artistic Director/Creator of Raised Pinay through Roots of Health where she centralizes her organizing around Decolonization and Liberation Education. Some of JL's most know creative works include JL is the US/Internationally travelled Journey of a Brown Girl and the Diasporic Pilipinx education and divination tool of Kapwa Tarot. Support for this podcast (and QTBIPGM qi gong scholarships) has come from our Patreon members.  Although I am taking a pause the podcast, community-centered qi gong classes are still happening.  Please consider joining and supporting this ecosystem of medicine. Support Palestine https://linktr.ee/mecaforpeace https://baitulmaal.org/ https://www.answercoalition.org/ Links https://www.instagram.com/jlcreator https://www.instagram.com/elpuentepresente/ https://www.instagram.com/re_memberingsofacolonizedchild/ Patreon.com/jameepinedahealingarts The-atang.site

Mugen is a fractalized being living in a Japanese/Taiwanese/Hakkanese-American experience. They study/practice; tattooing, acupuncture, daoism, cosmology, antiquity, martial arts, writing, indelible research and have a few other projects on the horizon. Their future envisions include; land stewardship, writings, ancestral pilgrimages, visual documentation of these journeys, and doing more activism around indigenous, water, land rights, food justice, food sovereignty, environmental justice--which is never separated from injustices of all oppressed relatives. This episode’s community shoutout goes to @homecampinitiative. Support Palestine Meca for Peace Baitulmaal ANSWER Coalition Links Patreon The-atang.site House of Elevaysiya Sarapnow.com Mxmxcreations newsletter

Zoe Ubaldo (they/them) is a Baltimore-based Special Education Teacher and Personal Trainer. They have over a decade of local, state, and national powerlifting competition experience and are currently focused on making the gym more accessible and inclusive to the queer community as well as folks with disabilities.  Right now they run a twice a week community lifting class called "Hour of Power" that allows folks to drop in and get hands-on guidance and support in the gym. This episode’s community shoutout goes to @freebaltimoreyoga.     Support Palestine https://linktr.ee/mecaforpeace https://baitulmaal.org/ https://www.answercoalition.org/national_march_for_palestine_saturday_nov_4 Links Patreon.com/jameepinedahealingarts The-atang.site instagram.com/strongbrozo instagram.com/freebaltimoreyoga Umpukan

Usually I’m on the healer side of medicine as a hilot binabaylan and Chinese medicine practitioner, but in this episode I share what it was like to receive medicine, specifically ritual tattoo and gender affirming surgery.  This episode’s community shoutout goes to all the many trans individuals out there crowdfunding to get their needs met.  If you have abundance to circulate please consider supporting these folks. Links Open Circle Market: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-open-circle-market-tickets-700247809047?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl Website: the-atang.site Scheduling and patient portal: https://acusimple.com/access/2438 Newsletter: subscribepage.io/h2k1f8 Patreon: patreon.com/jameepinedahealingarts

Amen, @ashleymnsaid, is a Baltimore-local spiritual diagnostician. They were taught how to ritually work with water, plants, and the spoken word over the course of 20 years, with the last 7 being a rigorous training period that culminated in Amen's emergence as a root doctor. They now have a four-pronged public-facing practice that consists of ritual construction, spiritual cleansing, spiritual guidance, and the development of spiritual technology. Amen also works with clients to restore and strengthen relationships with their ancestral powers. Amen will be hosting Open Circle Market on October 15 at R House in Baltimore. This episode’s community shoutout goes to @ashleyminnerart.   Links Matrix9d.space Instagram.com/ashleymnsaid jamee-pineda-lac.com

Join me in this solo episode where I talk about supporting gender affirming surgery with acupuncture.  When should you do it?  Why should you do it? What is getting acupuncture like?   Community shoutout goes to my teachers in the Phils: @rgcomon and @bahay.siadtala.binabaylan.  They are currently fundraising for a new training facility!  Check them out and show some love for these amazing healers promoting our indigenous practices. Links https://landasnglahi.com/ https://www.instagram.com/rgcomon/ https://www.instagram.com/bahay.siadtala.binabaylan/ jamee-pineda-lac.com

Tiana Dodson (she/her) is a body liberation facilitator with ten years experience and a lifetime of lived experience as a fat, biracial, queer, neurodivergent person, Tiana Dodson is well-versed in what it is to exist in a multiply-marginalized body. As an active co-creator of the syllabus for liberation, her work addresses how personal, community, and global liberation depend upon each other. Through her consulting services, group offerings, and public speaking, Tiana highlights the ways these systems of oppression are bound together and how we can push back against them. This is Tiana’s second appearance on the show and we’ll be talking about In This Body: Finding Liberation Virtual Conference. I also have the pleasure of being one of this year's presenters. Yay! This episode’s community shoutout goes to Athia Choudhury. Check out Athia’s website and show some love! For more info on me, your host, head to jamee-pineda-lac.com.

Micknai Arefaine (she/they) is a cultural organizer, educator, chef, and birthworker. She is the owner of Za Gualay Consulting, where she works with organizations that are looking for deeply transformative and holistic experiences that center justice, equity, belonging, healing, and dismantling the systems of oppression. She designs and facilitates experiences that help empower collaborators to dream up and co-create alternative ways of living, laboring, loving, shaping spaces and time, and inhabiting the land together. She enjoys cooking for her business Habesha Flavor, organizing with the BlaQ Qiln Collective, talking to plants, strolling around Baltimore, and nerding out on science fiction. This episode’s community shoutout goes to Sea Mason (@sea_arte). Check Sea out and show some love! Venmo: SEA-MASON

Ka-Bang Lauron, @ka_bangbang, (all pronouns) is a disabled, queer, genderfluid, mixed race filipinx multimedia artist with a love for book arts, print, and decolonial art. They graduated from UC Santa Barbara in 2020 with a degree in Feminist Studies and Art, and currently work as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer. Their work centers around personal narrative, queer temporalities, and ethnic studies. They have a special love in their heart for camping, martial arts, and their pet snake Chumby.This episode’s community shoutout goes to Ka-Bang’s good friend Travis Jones! He and his family have recently fallen on hard times since the pandemic started, and have been surviving homelessness for the last 6+ months. Venmo: @Travis-Jones-197. Linkshttps://ko-fi.com/kabangbangart/gallery instagram.com/ka_bangbangvenmo.com/u/Travis-Jones-197Jamee-pineda-lac.com

Cuán Sabino McCann (he/him), @bmorebata, is a white trans person of Irish and Italian descent, a big old homo, and a teacher of Irish martial arts. He's a certified Level 4 Coach in the Doyle family style of bataireacht ("BAH-tair-acht"), a traditional Irish martial art where folks use walking sticks (known as shillelaghs) for community defense. Cu teaches in-person classes through Bmore Bata in DC & Baltimore (and soon, online classes worldwide!). His classes center trans & queer folks but are open to all who fight at our side. Cu trains under Bernie Leddy, the founder of the Fighting Hares Faction and the current Chieftain of the Doyle family style worldwide.This episode's community shoutout goes to past guest @Recoveryfortherevolution who is currently fundraising for their book, Answering the Call of the Ancestors.Linkshttp://linktr.ee/bmorebatahttps://www.instagram.com/bmorebata/ https://www.instagram.com/recoveryfortherevolution/Jamee-pineda-lac.com