ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the holistic and humanizing work of producing, learning from, and teaching podcasting as a digital literacy within relational ethnic studies rooted in Chicanx, Latinx, and Indigenous Studies. Taking seriously how the pandemic forced many beyond the physical space of the university, the chapter contemplates how podcasts hold the potential of a decolonial curriculum that does not necessitate the land-based, militarized, and colonial project of the university. A project that has historically displaced and continues to displace Black, Indigenous, Chicanx, Latinx, and Asian-American communities through expansion. Podcasts create spaces of communal reflection, challenge the colonial practices of writing, reassert Indigenous practices of orality and storytelling, and produce a digital access space for students of colour, considering ability and class. The chapter provides grounded examples of the ways producing, learning from, and teaching podcasting are critical avenues for re-asserting students as active theorists and producers of collective wisdom toward better futures that are widely available for all respective communities.
