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Sep 22, 2026
Colby BarrGUEST
You could rent a mountain bike.
Colby BarrGUEST
Head up to UC Santa Cruz.
Colby BarrGUEST
And end up through Wilder State Park.
Colby BarrGUEST
And just cruise mountain bike trails.
BrianHOST
The large yellow slugs are found in Northern California and commonly referred to as banana slugs.
BrianHOST
UC Santa Cruz, the University of Santa Cruz, the University of California system has many campuses.
BrianHOST
Yeah, UC Santa
KristenHOST
Cruz is what we call it.
BrianHOST
Yes.
BrianHOST
And what what I only knew UC Santa Cruz for before I knew what their mascot was, which is the banana slug, was all I knew was that everyone there was hippies and there were no grades.
BrianHOST
That's what I knew before I knew their mascot was the banana slug.
BrianHOST
And then when I learned that their mascot was a banana slug.
Beth ShapiroGUEST
Oof, that's a good question and I think a big answer.
Beth ShapiroGUEST
You know, for almost three decades, I ran a research lab at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Beth ShapiroGUEST
I'm actually still there.
Beth ShapiroGUEST
I'm on leave from that role, but I still have research.
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Beth ShapiroGUEST
So I had an opportunity at the end of my freshman year to go on a this really amazing class.
Beth ShapiroGUEST
It meant a lot to me.
Beth ShapiroGUEST
It actually meant so much to me that I ended up teaching something really similar at Santa Cruz when I moved there.
Beth ShapiroGUEST
But it was a class where it was a nine-week class.
ShaliniHOST
And And it also has origins with Hasan Minhaj's background as well.
ShaliniHOST
So he said that his own painfully true memories of attending UC Santa Cruz and lurking at collegiate Bollywood dance competitions, hoping for the chance to interact with Beena Patel, his then crush, now wife, who also happened to be the head of the South Asian Students Association.
ShaliniHOST
Oh, the real Sasa.
ShaliniHOST
Yeah.
Mike de la RochaHOST
But one of the things I was going to say is that I think what I've always gravitated towards you personally, Carmen, in our relationship is Chicana feminism.
Mike de la RochaHOST
You were getting the framework when you were at UC Santa Cruz.
Mike de la RochaHOST
with an amazing professor who's now at Santa Barbara.
Mike de la RochaHOST
Dr. Aida Hurtado.
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Carmen Perez JordanGUEST
It basically was like a bad word.
Carmen Perez JordanGUEST
We didn't have the same education, right? Like she had never stepped foot into a classroom.
Carmen Perez JordanGUEST
I'm over here at UC Santa Cruz, you know, learning all these words that she just didn't have access to.
Carmen Perez JordanGUEST
But I remember it really offended her and I had to really break down what it was.
Dean RobleyHOST
I've heard such, I literally just met the raddest chick at the pinball spot.
Dean RobleyHOST
She was moving her son to UCSC and she's from Tacoma.
Dean RobleyHOST
And dude, she told me about it.
Dean RobleyHOST
I was like, wait, how have I never been up there?
David HelvargHOST
How did you get to meet Taylor Lane there in the Santa Cruz surfing community?
Ben JudkinsGUEST
Yeah, I went to UC Santa Cruz for film and digital media.
Ben JudkinsGUEST
And Taylor Lane was studying industrial design at San Jose State.
Ben JudkinsGUEST
And we kind of met through the surfing community in Santa Cruz.
Brendan RuhHOST
This is the problem.
Brendan RuhHOST
So there is still this thing in the world where when I got one of my first jobs out of college, they were like, you went to UC Santa Cruz? Oh, cool.
Brendan RuhHOST
Come on in.
Brendan RuhHOST
Meet this guy.
David GoughHOST
Also coached out in Alland United as a women's goalkeeper coach and a girls' academy coach at Red Star Soccer Academy, Mountain View in California.
David GoughHOST
On top of that, he's had volunteer roles at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
David GoughHOST
He was part of the Youth Regional Performance Group as head coach of under-16 Scottish Football Association teams.
David GoughHOST
He worked at Celtic as the girls' academy operations manager, under-21, under-19 women's head coach as well for over three years, and interim women's coach as a first-team manager.
Pooja RanganHOST
Unmaking the Prison Image is a production of Visualizing Abolition, a public scholarship initiative at the University of California Santa Cruz, directed by Gina Dent and Rachel Nelson.
Pooja RanganHOST
Learn more at visualizingabolition.ucsc.edu. We also want to learn from and connect with you.
Pooja RanganHOST
You can reach Pooja at PoojaRangan.com and find Visualizing Abolition on Instagram at UCSCIAS.
Pooja RanganHOST
So please get in touch and follow along.
Pooja RanganHOST
This episode was produced by Alex Moore, Louise Leong, and me, Pooja Rangan.
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