#23 - Storytelling is Medicine with Talia Molé

La Vida Más Chévere de Childfree Latinas

Meet Talia Molé, a fascinating storyteller and healer, for whom storytelling is medicine. It's in the stories of ourselves that we find healing. And in doing so, Talia is able to subvert the idea of modern society by distancing from patriarchal structures while pursuing the story of our ancestors and centering new ideas around motherhood. And she'll tell you how, as an immigrant woman, she's "always in translation."

In this episode we address the careless but all too frequent bingo posed in the question of feeling like "less of a woman," which leads to discussions around hysterectomies, Roe v. Wade, and the continued practice of forced births and forced sterilizations.

More about Talia:

Talia Molé believes in the artist as a rebellious and revolutionary teacher whose purpose is to disrupt the status quo inspiring conversations that lead to greater questioning and awakening within a communal body. As an artist, she has dedicated her time to understanding social change through different social spaces and disciplines within academia and beyond. She molded and polished her role as an activist/scholar with the help of a B.F.A. in Theatre Performance, an M.S. in Counseling, and a PhD in Anthropology and Social Change. Her field of research and exploration revolves around lived expressions of mother/motherhood/mothering, within marginalized populations, that serve as a radical remembrance of matriarchal ancestry, lineage and community.

Talia is the founder of "We are Phoenixing" a creative consultation business dedicated to mentoring creative practitioners.

Find Talia online at:

• We are Phoenixing
• Queering Motherhood: An Inquiry with Alumna Talia Molé (video)

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