In this special episode, the podcasters from the Sandovalian Semillero Collective share their SWAPA responses based on "Conclusion: Differential Manifesto, Trans-Languages, and Global Oppositional Politics" of Methodology of the Oppressed by Chela Sandoval. The SWAPA circle expresses what Sandoval calls the "naguala-witness-naguala ceremony." SWAPA is an acronym for Storytelling/Witnessing Wor(l)d-Art & Performance as Activism. It is a spiritual activist or nepantlera method in the spirit of differential social movement and consciousness from Methodology of the Oppressed. These special episodes are responses to the book and offer a practice of creative close reading and what it means to bridge worlds with others.
For scholarly references on SWAPA, here are some suggested essays:
Alvarez Jr, Eddy Francisco. "Jotería pedagogy, SWAPA, and Sandovalian approaches to liberation." Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 39, no. 1 (2014): 215-227.
Vasquez, Kristian E. "The Decoloniality of Feeling: On Sandovalian Praxis, Ceremony, and Emancipatory Politics in the Classroom and Beyond." Regeneración: A Xicanacimiento Studies Journal 1, no. 1 (2024): 5.
Intro & Outro song: "La calandria” by Raíces Oaxaca.
1 Oct 2025
[EP8] Decolonizing the Social Imagination: Differential Social Movement Horizons
In this episode, hosted on the Xicana Tiahui podcast platform, the Sandovalian Semillero Collective delves into the conclusion of Methodology of the Oppressed. The collective offers their final synopsis of the book and reflections on the content of the entire text, as well as its relevance for today. Here, the idea of the book, on coalition, becomes a continued conversation that signals not the end but an opening. To read Sandoval's Methodology of the Oppressed today is to conjure new dialogues about what the conditions of the world are and how to imagine a world where we might be free, together.
For more on this text, see Xicana Tiahui Scribes writer Kristian E. Vasquez's new blog post on the twenty-five years of Sandoval's book: https://xicanatiahui.substack.com/p/theory-uprising?r=3abq8l
25 Sept 2025
[SWAPA Interlude] Circle #7
In this special episode, the podcasters from the Sandovalian Semillero Collective share their SWAPA responses based on "Chapter 7: Revolutionary Force: Connecting Desire to Reality" of Methodology of the Oppressed by Chela Sandoval. The SWAPA circle expresses what Sandoval calls the "naguala-witness-naguala ceremony." SWAPA is an acronym for Storytelling/Witnessing Wor(l)d-Art & Performance as Activism. It is a spiritual activist or nepantlera method in the spirit of differential social movement and consciousness from Methodology of the Oppressed. These special episodes are responses to the book and offer a practice of creative close reading and what it means to bridge worlds with others.
For scholarly references on SWAPA, here are some suggested essays:
Alvarez Jr, Eddy Francisco. "Jotería pedagogy, SWAPA, and Sandovalian approaches to liberation." Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 39, no. 1 (2014): 215-227.
Vasquez, Kristian E. "The Decoloniality of Feeling: On Sandovalian Praxis, Ceremony, and Emancipatory Politics in the Classroom and Beyond." Regeneración: A Xicanacimiento Studies Journal 1, no. 1 (2024): 5.
Intro & Outro song: "La calandria” by Raíces Oaxaca.
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