Anything For Selena

By: WBUR & Futuro Studios
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  • Summary

  • On the podcast Anything for Selena, Apple Podcasts’ Show of the Year of 2021, Maria García combines rigorous reporting with impassioned storytelling to honor Selena's legacy. She also explores the indelible mark she left on Latino identity and belonging, whether it’s fatherhood, big-butt politics, and the fraught relationship with whiteness and language.
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Episodes
  • Anything for Selena: A Podcast About Belonging

    Anything for Selena: A Podcast About Belonging
    Oct 9 2020

    Maria Garcia was nine years old and living on the U.S.-Mexico border when Selena was murdered.

    25 years later, Maria is on a quest to understand what it means to love, mourn and celebrate Selena. In this intimate, sometimes wrenching, cathartic journey, Maria explores what Selena’s legacy shows us about belonging in America — and Maria’s own place in the world.
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    4 mins
  • Selena and Me

    Selena and Me
    Jan 12 2021

    Growing up along the US-Mexico border, Maria Garcia felt torn between her two identities as Mexican and American. But then, something changed her life.

    She discovered Selena Quintanilla—the Mexican-American pop icon who proved she didn’t have to choose.

    In the premiere episode of Anything for Selena, host Maria Garcia explores how Selena helped Maria find her own place in the world.
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    29 mins
  • Selena and Abraham

    Selena and Abraham
    Jan 12 2021

    Maria knows that to truly understand Selena as a person and not just an icon, she needs to go to Corpus Christi. Maria’s quest takes her to Abraham Quintanilla, Selena Quintanilla’s notoriously guarded father. Maria confronts his complicated legacy and reflects on fatherhood in Latinx cultures.
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    43 mins

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