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Executive Editor @futurostudios Creator and host @selena_podcast and Apple Original My Divo | 🌈 Flor del desierto |She/Hers 🥀insta: nopalita_mami

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Maria Elena Garcia

4 months

My Divo went to #1 in music podcast chart one day after debut. A pod about EL DIVO DE JUÁREZ, my beautiful mom, my sweet son, my loving partner, my desert and my roots is topping this chart. 🥹 Even my dog Chalino makes a cameo. Sharing this joy with them. 🩵

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Maria Elena Garcia

4 years

My full time job for 2020 has been examining Selena’s life & legacy. I’m also a lifelong fan. I’ve read everything. Seen all the archives. Spent time w her dad & sister. I'm going to unpack why so many ppl feel betrayed by #SelenaNetflix #selenatheseries and why it matters

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Maria Elena Garcia

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Last year I went to the Mexican National Archives where I uncovered a long lost prison file on Juan Gabriel. In it, I found out how, as a queer homeless kid in Mexico City, he was profiled, persecuted and jailed for simply appearing gay. It's a story that's never come to light.

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Maria Elena Garcia

4 years

Selena will be honored with a lifetime achievement award at the Grammys. Seems like a perfect opportunity to remind ya'll what made her so special. 1. She was a true artistic vanguard, almost single-handedly revolutionizing a form of American roots music into cutting edge bops.

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Maria Elena Garcia

1 year

Woke up to coachella videos of Bad Bunny performing x100to in a Tejana. 🤠🫠 And the song is #1 . I keep thinking how Selena’s big crossover was to the English speaking market. Now the world crosses over to us. I wish she could see this. She would have loved the Mexa-Boricua love.

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Maria Elena Garcia

3 years

The news is out! I'm so excited to join @futurostudios as its Executive Editor. I'll be helping to steer the creative and editorial vision for the studio, overseeing podcasts and future TV projects. I'm beyond excited to be joining a team that I believe is changing podcasting!

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Maria Elena Garcia

3 years

Some professional news: this week I officially begin as @WBUR 's Managing Editor. I'll be overseeing our investigations, climate and environment, education and arts and culture teams. I feel really energized by the opportunity to work with some really amazing people.

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Maria Elena Garcia

2 years

Do you have a great podcast idea? At @futurostudios , we are dreaming up our next slate of projects and are looking for pitches. Want to work with us? Here are the three criteria we're looking for in our podcasts:

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Maria Elena Garcia

2 years

I was in conversation with film director Greg Nava at the Academy Museum and in a media interview before the event, a reporter asked me which current artist is breaking barriers like Selena did. The answer to that is easy. Bad Bunny. Let me tell you why.

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Maria Elena Garcia

4 years

This tweet is for Mexicans: what’s the most Mexa thing about you? I’ll go first. Anytime I cook something that comes out a little bland, I grab a serrano pepper and just take bites of it with my food. What’s yours?

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Maria Elena Garcia

2 years

This week's @PulitzerPrizes win is proof that @Maria_Hinojosa has changed journalism. In "Suave," Maria is not a detached narrator. She brings her authentic self to her work. I don't just hear reporter Maria, I hear human Maria, the daughter of immigrants, the woman & friend.

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Maria Elena Garcia

4 years

I'm producing @selena_podcast about all of this! Subscribe here ->

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Anything For Selena

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Maria Elena Garcia

4 years

Let's begin with Selena's character. We hardly see her. She's kind of quiet, her smile a bit meek, usually in the background. This was the antithesis of Selena. The whole reason we are still enamored w her a quarter century later is bc of her ferocious, big spirited personality.

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Maria Elena Garcia

4 years

Which brings me to the physical shrinking. At 5"5 and 130 pounds, Selena was thin, but thicker than most women on TV. Seeing a brown, voluptuous woman was a big deal, even on whitewashed Latin American programming.

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Maria Elena Garcia

4 years

First, a preface. Selena was a woman, like a living, breathing actual person, not just an icon or an idea. Her family lost a daughter, a sister, part of their heart. I never want to forget that this is also a story about a family's deep pain & resilience. I speak from love.

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Maria Elena Garcia

4 years

Your girl is in the ⁦ @nytimes ⁩ ‘Anything for Selena’ Examines a Singer’s Legacy and Latino Identity - The New York Times

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‘Anything for Selena’ Examines a Singer’s Legacy and Latino Identity (Published 2021)

While the podcast is a biography of the Tejano star, it also weaves in the personal story of the host and examines why the singer has had a lasting effect on culture.

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Maria Elena Garcia

4 years

As @mala_munoz 's threads have reminded us, many ppl are incredibly protective of Selena's image. People saw themselves in her mestiza features. So it's not just about whether the Netflix depiction is true to Selena. It's whether it's true to everything she stands for.

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Maria Elena Garcia

3 years

27 years ago today, we lost her. But I still feel her presence in the universe. Selena forever 💜💜💜

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Maria Elena Garcia

4 years

Latino youth were portrayed as gang members, teen moms or college dropouts. Selena broke the narrative. Even before her death, ppl hailed her as a shining example of what Latinos could be. There was an aspirational earnestness to her. She talked about her success like it was ours

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Maria Elena Garcia

4 years

But her brother and father were not the only geniuses. Selena was a disciplined musician. She'd mastered her craft. She was a true vanguard, transforming a tradition-bound genre. An artist who emoted her songs with dazzling skill and intensity. We should see this!

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Maria Elena Garcia

4 years

Ardent disputes over Selena’s likeness demonstrate that even now, her appearance matters bc its laden w meaning. Her physical self -big hoops, pronounced lips, a celebration of curves before today’s mainstreaming of big butts -served as a symbol of transcendence w/out compromise

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Maria Elena Garcia

4 years

That's why even ppl who were born after Selena's death become ardent fans. Even now, her charisma spills out of the screen. So it feels like whiplash to go from that abundance to a shrunken Selena on Netflix -- someone made to be smaller, physically and metaphorically.

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Maria Elena Garcia

4 years

I’ve come to deeply understand something I intuitively felt as a 9-year old watching the Selena biopic. The guarding of Selena’s image is a protectiveness, not just of a star’s legacy, but of one of the most potent symbols of an American experience.

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Maria Elena Garcia

4 years

Today, is the series finale of @selena_podcast , which took the deepest journalistic dive anyone has ever taken on the legacy of Selena Quintanilla. I feel confident saying that. I want to tell you what I learned and how it changed me forever.

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Maria Elena Garcia

4 years

There was a fullness to Selena's presence, a bountifulness that filled every room. She had a striking, uncontainable laugh. She could switch from irreverent diva to humble girl-next-door in a literal blink of an eye. She exuded boisterous joy AND elegant self-possession.

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Maria Elena Garcia

4 years

Selena's role wilts in service of her manager father and songwriter brother. It's time we recognize their contribution to music. At one point, AB was one of the most prolific songwriters in the fastest growing genre in the country. It's a big part of the story. We should see it.

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Maria Elena Garcia

4 years

In 1995, the year Selena died, the country was in the thick of a major demographic shift. The Latino population surged by almost 60% between 1990 and 2000. Anxieties about Latinos being the fastest growing ethnic group in the country as it rounded out a new millennium took root.

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Maria Elena Garcia

4 years

I don't get Latinos who think they're being subversive by expressing their disdain for the word "Latinx." Oh look at you being so edgy holding on to exclusionary language. Lol. Sorry bros, ya'll don't hold the monopoly on what we're outraged by or not.

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Maria Elena Garcia

8 months

I am hoping the docu-series on Yolanda Saldivar and Selena will prove me wrong but I genuinely believe it will be the unethical, empty, needlessly salacious excuse of a documentary I suspect it to be. Here's why I, a Selena Quintanilla expert, believe it's a terrible project.

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Maria Elena Garcia

2 years

Bad Bunny starting his Monterrey concert with a Selena homage is very poetic. ✨✨

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Maria Elena Garcia

4 years

Sorry, no, wrong. This is a taco you’ll find in working class Mexican American strongholds in Texas and California. We decide what’s a taco in our communities. I prefer my taco with white cheese and golden friend tortillas pero there is room for all of our tacos.

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Maria Elena Garcia

4 years

Selena’s face became a ubiquitous symbol right as Latinos were being newly recognized as a collective, a constituency in the U.S. Her likeness transformed into a shorthand for a whole experience.

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Maria Elena Garcia

4 months

It is my absolute pleasure to announce my new podcast: My Divo, an @AppleTV original, is a deeply personal exploration of my queerness and my culture through the life and legacy of Mexican icon #JuanGabriel .

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Apple Original Podcast on Iconic Mexican Singer Juan Gabriel to Debut July 1 (Exclusive)

In the eight-part series, 'My Divo,' the singer will serve as a guide for host and journalist Maria Garcia as she goes back to her hometown and looks at his legacy while trying to reconcile with her...

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Maria Elena Garcia

4 years

My six-year old just asked "Mom who is more bad, Donald Trump or Yolanda Saldivar?"😳

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Maria Elena Garcia

3 months

In this week's episode of My Divo, you'll find out how Juan Gabriel was framed by police for an egregious crime he did not commit. You'll hear what JuanGa told police about how he felt about being queer, what he'd gone through because of it. You'll see him with much more nuance

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Maria Elena Garcia

4 years

I’ve thought so much about what to write as we announce Anything For Selena, the biggest project of my career, the podcast that has brought me to my knees, to tears, to heartache and healing. Thread:

@selena_podcast

Anything for Selena Podcast

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4 years

Finally, the ultimate examination of how Selena changed culture. In an intimate quest, @NopalitaMami uncovers what Selena’s legacy, a quarter century after her tragic murder, reveals about belonging. Coming Jan '21 from @wbur & @futurostudios . Trailer here

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Maria Elena Garcia

3 years

And also, look at Nerflix’s Luis Miguel the series. Obviously much bigger budget, so much more produced than Selena, the series. But Hollywood loves white Latinos. Selena has been named the most consequential Latina artist of all time. And even then, whiteness tops her. Shame.

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Maria Elena Garcia

2 years

This weekend I started recording for my next podcast. It's still very early in the process so I can't say what it is yet. But it's deep. And joyful and scary and tense. It's about my roots and queerness and a certain icon from an unexpected but beloved place. Ya'll are not ready.

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Maria Elena Garcia

1 year

Becky G did A Selena medley at Coachella. The aesthetics and vocals were on point but what I liked most were the little adlibs between lyrics — which Selena was so skilled at. You know, the little phrases that got the party going. IYKYK. Becky G got it right.

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Maria Elena Garcia

6 years

OMG! @Maria_Hinojosa and @julito77 just announced a community podcast program that will train people in Boston underrepresented communities to tell their own stories. They’re doing this in partnership w/ @prx and @MASSCreative

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Maria Elena Garcia

3 years

I've been wrestling with my own racial identity since @selena_podcast made me confront it. What a gift to be able to talk about Latino identity, whiteness, solidarity and how to identify -- in the safety of @Maria_Hinojosa and @RadioMirage 's presence.

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NPR's Code Switch

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🦋NEW EP ALERT 🦋 @Maria_Hinojosa & @NopalitaMami are both Mexican Americans with multiracial ancestry and relatively light skin. But Maria H. strongly identifies as a woman of color, while Maria G. no longer uses the label POC. We wanted to know: Why?

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Maria Elena Garcia

4 years

In honor of what would’ve been Selena’s 50th birthday, we released a bonus episode today with her husband Chris Perez in Joshua Tree, the site of the Amor Prohibido video. Listen to hear of a more vulnerable and daring Selena, who charted her own path.

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Anything For Selena

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Maria Elena Garcia

2 years

I was supposed to go to Ciudad Juárez today to karaoke with some friends. Instead, they haven’t left their homes since Thursday bc of the violence in their city. You never get used to these waves of terror. I am heartsick for my frontera.

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Maria Elena Garcia

2 years

Thank you Puerto Rico for sharing your art with us. We hold it with love.

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Maria Elena Garcia

3 years

I’m at a bar drinking a tamarindo margarita with my primas in Ciudad Juárez where they’re playing a Bobby Pulido song that he wrote for Selena. I love the corner of the world that made me. 🤎🤎

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Maria Elena Garcia

3 years

Second "best of" 2021 list that @selena_podcast tops. Posting for industry professionals who recently questioned if it was worth creating such a "niche" podcast. And we're still on the Apple charts. Hope you question white podcasts as much as you do AFS.

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Maria Elena Garcia

3 years

Feels gratifying for @selena_podcast to be on @TheAtlantic 's list of best pods of the year. But you know what feels even better? Being on that list with so many other @futurostudios shows. We're not winning until we're all winning. Those other amazing shows are:

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Maria Elena Garcia

4 years

Aww going to save this video feature and watch it when I face self-doubt. This ran in several markets and I just hope a lot of little ones saw this. Girls who need to know that they can grow up and ask questions about their culture for a living. That our culture is worth studying

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THIS IS FOR SELENA: “She was part of my life since I can remember. Selena’s music reminds me of who I am, where I come from. How did she become this symbol of American Latinidad?” @NopalitaMami hosts "Anything for Selena" podcast as a quest to understand that. #selena #SelenaDay

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Maria Elena Garcia

4 years

I went to sleep yesterday knowing that it would be the last night that @selena_podcast would be mine. Now it is the world's. Now it is yours. This is an ode to Selena, a cultural reckoning, and a deeply personal quest. Listen and there's my heart.

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Anything For Selena

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Maria Elena Garcia

3 months

Reporting this story made me reflect on my own relationship and my partner and what's at stake for us as gay marriage is at risk in this country. You'll hear about my boo, our long-distance relationship, our plans for the future. I feel very exposed 😳

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Maria Elena Garcia

2 years

Selena is for everyone. Her art transcends nationality. But of course, there’s a special connection for Mexican Americans. Same with Bad Bunny. So grateful to experience his music. But I know that what Puerto Ricans experienced at the Choli is special and beautifully theirs.

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Maria Elena Garcia

3 years

So much to say about this and I will. For now, know that this does not surprise me in the least. $2M per episode on Selena vs $13M per episode on The Crown? Selena is our royalty. She deserved better.

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Maria Elena Garcia

3 years

I brought my mom to the ER because she had stroke symptoms and she keeps telling me to go home and bring her an egg back to the hospital so we can do a limpia here. 🥺

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Maria Elena Garcia

4 years

Selena grew up on Tejano, an underdog genre which fused the accordion from German immigrants and the Mexican folk guitar. Selena and her musician family added modern synths, R&B inspired vocals and pop arrangements into Tejano. An explosive, lasting combination.

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Maria Elena Garcia

3 months

I hope you'll listen! If you have Apple TV+, you can binge the whole series:

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A podcast about going back to your roots, with the life of Juan Gabriel as a guide. My Divo is an Apple Original podcast produced by Futuro Studios. Follow and listen on Apple Podcasts.

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Maria Elena Garcia

4 years

4. People talk about what a big deal it would have been if she had crossed over to the American market in her lifetime. But she was ALREADY a crossover queen. Do you know how profound it was to see a woman who spoke broken Spanish, the Queen of pochas, cross over into MEXICO?

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Maria Elena Garcia

4 years

Spoke with @arishapiro on @npratc about what it was like to get to know Abraham Quintanilla, why the podcast had to start at the border and about how so many of us grew up in the age of Selenidad. Thank you so much for having me, Ari!

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The Podcast 'Anything For Selena' Tells A Story Larger Than The Artist's Life

Ari Shapiro speaks with host Maria Garcia, whose childhood on the U.S.-Mexico border informs the show's storytelling about the late queen of Tejano music.

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Maria Elena Garcia

4 years

3. She constantly cited Black divas as a source of inspiration. Primarily Janet Jackson -- both in music and fashion. She also cited Jody Watley, A Taste of Honey and Whitney Houston. She cited them by name, specifically and deliberately declaring her admiration for Black women

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Maria Elena Garcia

4 years

I could go on. And I do in @selena_podcast . In a few days, it'll be 26 years since we lost her. I hope by some cosmic grace, she is aware of what an imprint she left on the world and on so many women like me. Thank you Selena for blooming evermore. #selenaquintanilla #Selena

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Maria Elena Garcia

4 years

It's still astounding, what she did. She took a form of rural, regional music and brought it to the international stage, selling out world stages and at one point making Tejano the fastest growing Latino genre in the country. She did all of this before the age of 23.

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Maria Elena Garcia

2 years

Selena was explicitly Mexican American. She carried that identity like a badge of honor. It was central to her artistry. Her ascension was so beautiful because she didn’t compromise her roots. She exalted them. Bad Bunny constantly does this. He is unapologetically Puerto Rican.

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Maria Elena Garcia

4 years

wow @selena_podcast tops the list of best podcasts of 2021 so far, according to @vulture . Thank you @nwquah

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Maria Elena Garcia

3 years

@ApplePodcasts has named @selena_podcast Newcomer of the Year! I can't stop thinking about something my friend @quincyjwalters told me: that I had made something my younger self needed. How true. This one's for all of our younger selves who struggled to belong. An ode to us 🤎

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For anyone who is trying to figure out where they belong, @nopalitamami 's story about identity and belonging through the lens of Selena's life and legacy will resonate. @selena_podcast from @wbur and @futurostudios is our Newcomer of the Year.

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Maria Elena Garcia

2 years

It’s so amazing to watch a community embrace an artist who makes them feel seen. The clips I’m seeing of this weekend’s Choliseo concert are giving Selena at the astrodome vibes. Legendary. A community enraptured w an artist of the ppl.

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Maria Elena Garcia

4 years

It could've been cheesy but homegirl actually had that once-in-a-lifetime RANGE. She possessed an almost super human musicality, the ability to embody the music with ease and power. She could MOVE. She never took formal dance classes but watched Soul Train for hours <3

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Maria Elena Garcia

4 years

Selena started her last concert with Disco -- which originated in Black, Queer scenes -- and mixed in Cumbia, a rhythm by Black Colombians and Native ppl throughout Latin America. Selena’s performance of these things breathed life to a connection that's been historically erased:

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Maria Elena Garcia

2 years

He exalts his land and his ppl everywhere he goes. His Puerto Rican identity is also central to his artistry. And he’s ascended in Hollywood and beyond without compromising this part of himself. Like Selena’s music, Bad Bunny’s has a universal appeal. But he makes it for his ppl.

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Maria Elena Garcia

2 years

I went to a gay club in CDMX tonight and someone walked past me and told their friend "Esta chava tiene los rizos mas bonitos que he visto." I used to come home crying in first grade bc white kids would make fun of my hair. But here, my curly hair is accepted as the crown it is.

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Maria Elena Garcia

4 years

It was life-changing for me to see that. To see a woman embrace and champion a culturally specific, working class Mexican-American identity that at this point in history, had been so derided, so put down. But in Selena, it was a source of joy. In Mexico and the U.S.

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Maria Elena Garcia

4 years

2. Selena was a musical polyglot. She honed her chops at Tejano weddings and community gatherings, where she had to capture viejitxs and teenagers in the same crowd. And she did it. Mastering Mexican rancheras, freestyle, R&B, cumbia and pop in the same performance.

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Maria Elena Garcia

4 years

I pitched this podcast for literally years. And today, it's on the front page of Apple Podcasts. Don't. Give. Up. #selenapodcast

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Maria Elena Garcia

6 years

Boston, we have a big a problem. There is a major dearth of theater critics of color. In an age when there are more and more plays about race and oppression, it's more important than ever to have diverse voices who can capture the nuance on stage.

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Maria Elena Garcia

4 years

That indigenous and Black ancestry are often inextricably linked in this continent. Selena’s disco medley, with her back-up dancer Don Shelton (RIP) is a visual representation of Africa in the Americas.

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Maria Elena Garcia

2 years

Do you have an idea with all three of these things? Reach out! mgarcia @futuromediagroup .org. We're in a really exciting moment of growth and you'll be hearing more about some big moves from us soon <3

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Maria Elena Garcia

4 years

I know it’s fun to argue about tacos! But Authenticity policing of working class food is classist.

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Maria Elena Garcia

4 years

The @nytimes says you should listen to @selena_podcast this weekend. And if you already are, is your abuelita? Your cousin? Your BFF? Let's show the world there's a hunger for our stories!

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Maria Elena Garcia

2 years

. @futurostudios has won a Pulitzer in audio reporting for our “Suave” podcast. Huge congratulations to Suave himself, @Maria_Hinojosa @ItsJMartinelli and @maggiefreleng and everyone who worked on this incredible project!!

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Maria Elena Garcia

7 years

Sorry not sorry for #Selena takeover on my twitter.I'm an OG fan. Here's pic of 9-year old me being v serious about my devotion to the Queen

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Maria Elena Garcia

8 months

These supposed "secrets" have always proven to be empty, irresponsible speculations. There’s so much beauty and art and heart in Selena and her story. You don’t have to resort to cheap tricks to do something of consequence about her. You can center her humanity and her artistry.

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Maria Elena Garcia

6 years

So happy to tell you all that I am the new Senior Editor of @WBURartery at @WBUR . I'll be leading our dedicated team of arts reporters, editors, and contributors to cover arts and culture in Boston and New England.

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Maria Elena Garcia

3 years

My first kiss was with a beautiful cholo called Puppet who wore monochromatic beige Dickies and a guayabera. It was also my first outing with winged eyeliner. Definitely a scam ✨✨✨

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Yesika Salgado 🍉✨

3 years

I tweet for the women who used to say scamming instead of making out. "I saw you and that foo scamming by the basketball courts during lunch"

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Maria Elena Garcia

2 years

Loving this picture of Bad Bunny wearing a Selena t-shirt, posing with Boston mayor @wutrain . Que sweet.

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A little more about us: we had a whopping four podcasts in The Atlantic’s 50 best pods of the year, we were named newcomer of the year by Apple Podcasts and the NYT, Vogue, Vulture & others have named our pods as some of the best of the year. Oh yeah and we won a Pulitzer this yr

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Maria Elena Garcia

2 years

I believe there is no such thing as journalism from a place of nowhere. We all bring a lens to journalism that is the product of the place in the world that we occupy. Maria owns her lens. I believe that we all should. That's how we see our blind spots and strengths.

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Maria Elena Garcia

3 years

Still weird to be the topic of a press release pero también, that’s how I do it now 💅🏻

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3 years

@futuromedia @NopalitaMami @futurostudios Here is the official @futuromedia press release about @NopalitaMami 's hiring! Page 1.

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Maria Elena Garcia

7 years

How to make immigrants feel like they're home? Provide free museum access. That's what the @mfaboston is doing.

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Maria Elena Garcia

4 years

Today on @selena_podcast : Big Butt Politics. I believe there's a historical lineage from Selena to today's big butt culture. It may sound trivial. But this episode really illustrates Latinidad's fraught relationship with Blackness.

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Maria Elena Garcia

2 years

Every day I feel lucky to do what I do 🖤

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Futuro Media

2 years

Futuro Studios Executive Editor Maria Garcia: ‘What I Am Seeking Is Radical Transparency’ In this interview, @NopalitaMami talks about reframing narratives, growing up along the U.S.-Mexico border, and reaching new heights with @futurostudios .

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Maria Elena Garcia

4 years

Well this retweet feels surreal.

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4 years

"Anything for Selena" focuses on how the singer’s life and death were profound flash points for Latinos, but it also weaves in @NopalitaMami 's story. "The podcast has been my own search to figure out where I belong in the world."

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Maria Elena Garcia

3 years

Really honored that ⁦ @selena_podcast ⁩ is among these stellar podcasts. Thank you to everyone who has listened 🙏🏽

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Maria Elena Garcia

4 months

Look at this beautiful visual trailer of My Divo, featuring my son. <3 One of the most beautiful things about this podcast is that I got to include my mother and my son and my girlfriend. I got to show up completely -- as a mom, a queer daughter, a partner.

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4 months

You may think you know the story of iconic Mexican singer @soyjuangabriel , but @nopalitamami is showing you JuanGa like you’ve never seen him before. @AppleTV & @futurostudios present: My Divo, available in both English and Spanish.

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Maria Elena Garcia

2 years

1. We are looking for hosts with authentic connections to the stories they're telling. We want fresh original voices telling us about something they are deeply drawn to. We want to know why you are the perfect person to tell this story.

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Maria Elena Garcia

5 years

Let's get into why this incident -- in which students of color say they were harassed and profiled at the @mfaboston -- is an example of a western ecyclopedic museum's systemically racist legacy & an opportunity to do work around accountability.

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Students Of Color Say They Were Profiled, Harassed At The MFA. Museum Apologizes

“This is mind boggling, that it's 2019,” teacher Marvelyne Lamy said. “And I can come into an establishment and my skin color speaks for me before I even get to walk in and introduce myself and say...

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Maria Elena Garcia

6 years

Deleting twitter for a week to be fully present for my son’s fourth birthday and vacation. I’m going to mom out so hard and every morning when he asks, “mami do you really have to go to work today,” w that sad little face, I’m going to say “nope” and cuddle him all day. HEAVEN.

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Maria Elena Garcia

3 years

I was on @NPR ‘s @MorningEdition with @AMartinezLA to talk about Selena’s legacy, her role in the body politics of today and why it mattered that she spoke Spanglish. And of course the tension around her forthcoming new album.

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2 projects revive Selena's music for new generations

Tejano singer Selena died in 1995. NPR's A Martinez talks to Maria Garcia, creator and host of the podcast Anything for Selena, about projects that will keep Selena's music alive for new generations.

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Maria Elena Garcia

4 years

Thank you to @latimes for listing @selena_podcast as something to look forward to in 2021! It's getting real. My baby will be out in the world soon! Excuse me while I go hyperventilate at the idea of releasing the most vulnerable work of my life.

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Here are the top Latino media moments of 2020 — and hints of what to expect in 2021

Representation still lags for Latinos in culture, but 2020 brought successes that foretell a hyper-interesting 2021 if we all fasten our seat belts.

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Maria Elena Garcia

2 years

I’m on Martha’s Vineyard, eating breakfast at a cute spot that has played only Bad Bunny since I got here an hour ago. He’s in the air, the biggest star in the world.

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Maria Elena Garcia

8 months

But to imply that Selena and her dad somehow contributed to Yolanda murdering Selena – puts Selena on trial. It amounts to victim-blaming, when there’s a very real murderer who has never ever expressed true remorse and contrition.

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Maria Elena Garcia

3 years

The best cast person in #SelenaTheSeries was Veronica Castro.

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Maria Elena Garcia

8 months

The docu-series is framed as an exploration into "the secrets between" Yolanda and Selena. This framing is not new. There's been attempts in the past to capitalize on Selena by implying she had a secret as if that somehow contributed to her murder. Truly shameful.

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