Jul 3, 2026 · 11 min · 4 segments
To hear more, visit motheringnewworlds.substack.com In today’s episode, I interview Denia Perez, an immigration attorney by training, longtime activist in…
Denya PerezGuest
Bianca Mabute-LouiHostBut if you want to listen to the rest of the episode, go to motheringnewworlds.substack.com to become a subscriber and you can listen to the entirety of the conversation there.
I'm trying to figure out the best way to make this whole subscriber thing as seamless as possible.
And if you have any suggestions of alternative ways to do this, comment below.
I am very tech-challenged, and this has been just a little stressful trying to figure out on my own, but here we are.
So moving on to today's very special interview, I talked to Denya Perez, an immigration attorney by training, longtime activist in the immigrants' rights movement.
Currently, she works as a writer at the nonprofit Documented, where she recently interviewed Zoran Mamdani.
a clown, the town jester of my heart, the godmother to my child, and my best friend.
Denya also writes the hilarious and tender substack How to Survive Your Flop Era, where she chronicles her own unlearning about capitalism, perfectionism, and tending to your inner child slash weirdo.
If you listened to my previous episode with Leah Kim, I mentioned my best friend who came to visit me postpartum and literally just like did our chores.
She walked our dogs, folded our laundry, including my husband's underwear, and just spent time with us in the trenches of newborn babyhood.
I feel like that is part of mothering is the tias and the aunties who show up for you and And so, of course, I had to have Dania on the podcast.
It was always part of the vision of Mothering New Worlds to center folks who don't have children but are mothers, caregivers, nurturers in their own right.
People who are reparenting themselves, creating new, liberated worlds for our children to grow up in.
And again, if you want to listen to the entirety of our juicy conversation, go to motheringnewworlds.substack.com. As a reminder, new episodes come out every other Friday on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube.
But if you want to listen to the rest of the episode, go to motheringnewworlds.substack.com to become a subscriber and you can listen to the entirety of the conversation there.
I'm trying to figure out the best way to make this whole subscriber thing as seamless as possible.
And if you have any suggestions of alternative ways to do this, comment below.
I am very tech-challenged, and this has been just a little stressful trying to figure out on my own, but here we are.
So moving on to today's very special interview, I talked to Denya Perez, an immigration attorney by training, longtime activist in the immigrants' rights movement.
Currently, she works as a writer at the nonprofit Documented, where she recently interviewed Zoran Mamdani.
a clown, the town jester of my heart, the godmother to my child, and my best friend.
Denya also writes the hilarious and tender substack How to Survive Your Flop Era, where she chronicles her own unlearning about capitalism, perfectionism, and tending to your inner child slash weirdo.
If you listened to my previous episode with Leah Kim, I mentioned my best friend who came to visit me postpartum and literally just like did our chores.
She walked our dogs, folded our laundry, including my husband's underwear, and just spent time with us in the trenches of newborn babyhood.
I feel like that is part of mothering is the tias and the aunties who show up for you and And so, of course, I had to have Dania on the podcast.
It was always part of the vision of Mothering New Worlds to center folks who don't have children but are mothers, caregivers, nurturers in their own right.
People who are reparenting themselves, creating new, liberated worlds for our children to grow up in.
And again, if you want to listen to the entirety of our juicy conversation, go to motheringnewworlds.substack.com. As a reminder, new episodes come out every other Friday on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube.
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