VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS Podcast

About VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS Podcast

The VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS Podcast is a REINA TAÍNA PRESS production, managed and executive produced through LA REINA TAÍNA, LLC; hosted by LA REINA TAÍNA. The show brings together personal storytelling, cultural analysis, public philosophy, art, music, identity, memory, trauma, power, and becoming. Through solo reflections, readings, interviews, and creative conversations, each episode challenges inherited narratives and asks what it means to understand ourselves, protect our voices, and create lives beyond the limits placed upon us. The VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS Podcast is rooted in Afro-Jotería Studies, an original body of thought developed by LA REINA TAÍNA that centers the theories-in-the-flesh of Queer and Trans Afro-Latinx, Afro-Caribbean, and Afro-Indigenous people. The podcast approaches lived experience not as something separate from knowledge, but as a source of knowledge in itself. The podcast is open to thoughtful collaborations with artists, filmmakers, writers, scholars, educators, organizers, and other folx whose work genuinely aligns with Afro-Jotería pedagogy and epistemology—a practice of teaching, learning, and knowing through lived experience, art, memory, community, and liberation. For collaboration and partnership inquiries, email at larealreinataina.com

Publisher

Reina CÁMO Cemi’no

Category

arts · education · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

6 Sept 2024

Latest episode

13 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

25 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   13 Oct 2026

   VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS Podcast Episode 25: “The Art of Finishing... Art”

   VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS Podcast Episode 25: “The Art of Finishing... Art” In Episode 25 of the VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS Podcast, I reflect on the messy, spiritual, and deeply personal process of finishing art — especially when creative work moves on its own timeline. This episode moves through hip-hop, legacy, discipline, and artistic identity. I talk about why I believe hip-hop needs a reset, what it means to reimagine the genre with more heart, truth, and responsibility, and how my five-album music series THE REDPRINT sits in conversation with Jay-Z’s Blueprint and Nicki Minaj’s Pinkprint while still becoming something entirely its own. I also reflect on childhood mornings, waking up around 5 AM, and how the quiet hours between 3 AM and 6 AM became sacred time for discovering myself, my art, and my soul. From there, I explain how THE REDPRINT 5-Album Series is rooted in my Black-Indigenous and Taína identity, including the symbolism of red handprints honoring missing and murdered Indigenous women and children. For me, THE REDPRINT is not about gender. It is about Rebel Rappers: artists with heart, passion, and lived experience who speak to real life instead of only recycling misogyny, toxicity, and romantic-industrial-complex fantasies. I also talk about my creative process, my nonprofit roots, and how co-founding an organization for my hometown gave me the experience, courage, and motivation to build my own world through art, music, podcasting, and LA REINA TAÍNA. “The art of finishing art is learning that not everything arrives at the same time. Some things need time. Some things need silence. Some things need to become themselves before the world gets to receive them.”— LA REINA TAÍNA Presented and hosted by: LA REINA TAÍNACreated by: LA REINA TAÍNA, LLC Stay Connected:Instagram: @vamoshablaringlespodcast ✨🎨 Reina’s Life Motto: “To re-imagine and challenge the ‘self’ via art.” Support & ShareCashApp: $camoisnotdeadVenmo: @lareinareinatainaPayPal: @ReinaTaina14 ----more---- VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS Podcast Episodio 25: “El Arte de Terminar... Arte” En el Episodio 25 del VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS Podcast, reflexiono sobre el proceso desordenado, espiritual y profundamente personal de terminar arte, especialmente cuando la creación se mueve a su propio ritmo. Este episodio atraviesa el hip-hop, el legado, la disciplina y la identidad artística. Hablo sobre por qué creo que el hip-hop necesita un reset, qué significa reimaginar el género con más corazón, verdad y responsabilidad, y cómo mi serie musical de cinco álbumes, THE REDPRINT, conversa con Blueprint de Jay-Z y Pinkprint de Nicki Minaj mientras se convierte en algo completamente propio. También reflexiono sobre mis mañanas de infancia, cuando me despertaba alrededor de las 5 AM, y cómo esas horas silenciosas entre las 3 AM y las 6 AM se convirtieron en un tiempo sagrado para descubrirme a mí misma, mi arte y mi alma. Desde ahí, explico cómo THE REDPRINT 5-Album Series está profundamente enraizado en mi identidad Negra-Indígena y Taína, incluyendo el simbolismo de las huellas rojas en honor a las mujeres, niñas y niñes indígenas desaparecides y asesinades. Para mí, THE REDPRINT no se trata de género. Se trata de Rebel Rappers: artistas con corazón, pasión y experiencia vivida que hablan de la vida real, en vez de solo reciclar misoginia, toxicidad y fantasías del complejo industrial romántico. También hablo sobre mi proceso creativo, mis raíces en el trabajo comunitario y cómo cofundar una organización sin fines de lucro para mi ciudad natal me dio la experiencia, el valor y la motivación para construir mi propio mundo a través del arte, la música, el podcasting y LA REINA TAÍNA. “El arte de terminar el arte es aprender que no todo llega al mismo tiempo. Algunas cosas necesitan tiempo. Algunas cosas necesitan silencio. Algunas cosas necesitan convertirse en sí mismas antes de que el mundo pueda recibirlas.”— LA REINA TAÍNA Presentado y conducido por: LA REINA TAÍN

2. 

   31 Aug 2026

   VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS Podcast Episode 24: “My Richness Is Life, Forever.”

   VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS Podcast Episode 24: “My Richness Is Life, Forever.” In this special two-year anniversary episode of the VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS Podcast, I reflect on life, art, voice, memory, and what it means to leave evidence that we were here. The episode begins with a tattoo on my right thigh: “My richness is life, forever,” a quote from Bob Marley written on my body in the handwriting of Jean-Michel Basquiat. From Marley’s philosophy of richness to Basquiat’s artistic language, to my own body and voice, I reflect on how the VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS Podcast has become an archive of my life and ideas over the past two years. I also finally explain the origin of the podcast’s name through Dominican icon Fefita La Grande and her song “Vamos a Hablar Inglés.” Rather than functioning literally as an English lesson, Fefita transforms the phrase into Dominican vernacular comedy—a warning, a joke, and a piece of everyday cultural language. That transformation became part of what inspired me to make the phrase my own through this podcast. For the first time, I also publicly introduce my upcoming book, I’ll Be Dancing On My Own: A Book About the Critical Theory of Selfhood, Decolonizing Solidarity, and Achieving Total Liberation. During the episode, I read the first paragraph of my Chapter One draft and the opening two to three paragraphs of Chapter Two, offering listeners an early glimpse into the philosophical and autobiographical project I am currently building. Ultimately, Episode 24 is about preservation: what happens when our lives become recordings, paintings, sentences, books, philosophies, tattoos—and archives that can outlive the moments that created them. “When Bob Marley said his richness was life forever, I don't think ‘forever’ has to mean that the body never dies. Maybe forever is what happens when life leaves evidence. A recording. A painting. A sentence. A book. A philosophy. A tattoo. Something somebody encounters after the moment that created it has already passed... Two years ago I pressed record because I had something to say. Twenty-four episodes later, I understand that I was doing something else too. I was leaving evidence.” — LA REINA TAÍNA Presented and hosted by: LA REINA TAÍNACreated by: LA REINA TAÍNA, LCC Stay Connected:Instagram: @vamoshablaringlespodcast ✨🎨 Reina’s Life Motto: “To re-imagine and challenge the ‘self’ via art.” Support & ShareCashApp: $camoisnotdeadVenmo: @lareinareinatainaPayPal: @ReinaTaina14 ----more---- VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS Podcast Episodio 24: “Mi riqueza es la vida, para siempre.” En este episodio especial por el segundo aniversario del VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS Podcast, reflexiono sobre la vida, el arte, la voz, la memoria y lo que significa dejar evidencia de que estuvimos aquí. El episodio comienza con un tatuaje en mi muslo derecho: “Mi riqueza es la vida, para siempre”, una frase de Bob Marley escrita sobre mi cuerpo con la caligrafía de Jean-Michel Basquiat. Desde la filosofía de Marley sobre la riqueza, pasando por el lenguaje artístico de Basquiat, hasta llegar a mi propio cuerpo y mi propia voz, reflexiono sobre cómo el VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS Podcast se ha convertido en un archivo de mi vida y de mis ideas durante estos últimos dos años. También explico finalmente el origen del nombre del podcast a través del ícono dominicano Fefita La Grande y su canción “Vamos a Hablar Inglés”. En lugar de funcionar literalmente como una lección de inglés, Fefita transforma la frase en comedia vernácula dominicana: una advertencia, un chiste y una expresión integrada a la vida cultural cotidiana. Esa transformación fue parte de lo que me inspiró a apropiarme de la frase y darle un nuevo significado a través de este podcast. Por primera vez, también presento públicamente mi próximo libro, I’ll Be Dancing On My Own: A Book About the Critical Theory of Selfhood, Decolonizing Solidarity, and Achieving Total Liberation. Durante el episodio, leo el primer párrafo del borrador del Capítulo Un

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   24 Jul 2026

   VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS Podcast Episode 23: “A World Beyond the Present: Reimagining Childhood Through Pokémon”

   VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS Podcast Episode 23: “A World Beyond the Present: Reimagining Childhood Through Pokémon” What if the Pokémon world is more than childhood nostalgia? What if it can also become a methodological and pedagogical tool for reimagining how our societies treat children, minors, and young people? In this episode of the VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS Podcast, I reflect on the lasting role that Pokémon has played in my imagination—from my childhood into my present-day life. I explore how the Pokémon world presents a society where young people are trusted to move, learn, build relationships, discover their abilities, develop a sense of purpose, and participate meaningfully in the world around them. I am not arguing that the Pokémon world is perfect or that it should be copied literally. Instead, I ask what becomes imaginable when a fictional world grants young people mobility, responsibility, community, adventure, and the freedom to become. Pokémon gives us an opening through which we can question the limitations of our own political realities. Modern nation-states frequently claim that children are their future, yet their governments and institutions repeatedly fail to prioritize children in the present. Young people are subjected to poverty, displacement, war, family separation, inaccessible education, institutional violence, identity policing, and political decisions in which they have little meaningful voice. Their bodies are controlled, their knowledge is dismissed, and their personhood is often treated as secondary to the authority of adults, families, schools, religions, markets, and the state. This episode challenges the idea that children are merely incomplete adults waiting to become real people. Children possess present-tense humanity. They deserve bodily autonomy, age-appropriate self-determination, safety from manipulation and coercion, opportunities to explore their identities, and the freedom to continually create and re-create themselves without unnecessary social barriers. Through the framework of Afro-Jotería Studies and the twenty-one tenets of Afro-Jotx Identity and Consciousness, I consider childhood as a protected space of becoming. I draw especially from the tenets rooted in joy and radical love; multidimensional social justice; the disruption of epistemological boundaries; individual and collective identity exploration; resistance to violence, coercion, and subordination; and a decolonial Black Queer Transfeminist pedagogy and praxis. I also connect this conversation to Afro-Jotería’s call to reimagine society through Queer Afro-Futurism and Latinx Futurism as world-building tools. If our present political systems cannot imagine children as autonomous, complex, joyful, and evolving human beings, then perhaps popular culture can help us develop new political languages—and new worlds—in which they are. Pokémon becomes more than a game, television series, or fictional universe. It becomes a study space. It becomes a political question. It becomes an invitation to imagine societies that do not merely claim to care about young people, but materially organize themselves around their safety, freedom, joy, curiosity, and liberation. What would change if we treated every child as someone already worthy of dignity? What kind of world would we build if young people were trusted to discover who they are? And what can the Pokémon world teach us about moving beyond the limits of the present? Presented and hosted by: LA REINA TAÍNACreated by: Ms. Reina CÁMO Basquiat Cemi’no I Content note: This episode includes discussion of child neglect, adultism, bodily autonomy, colonialism, state violence, systemic oppression, identity policing, coercion, and institutional harm affecting children and young people. Stay Connected:Instagram: @vamoshablaringlespodcastHost: @larealreinataina ✨🎨 Reina’s Life Motto: “To re-imagine and challenge the ‘self’ via art.” Support & ShareCashApp: $camoisnotdeadVenmo: @lareinare

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