March  10, 2021

Episode : My Grandma's Story

Kiara Milena Sanchez Calderon 403.
Hi everyone! Welcome to my podcast, today we’re gonna talk about the history of my grandma Micaela Calderon Hernandez, she was born in Mexico City,her mother was 13 when she got her, she was the third of six siblings, three of those siblings were half siblings. When she was born she adopted her uncle's last name, because she never knew her dad. She live her childhood at Peralvillo and her last scholar level was primary school; her mother was a single mother so sometimes she doesn’t have enough money to support her sibling so she send my grandma to a convent for a while until my grandmother was 17 years she get married with my grandpa, they have 10 siblings but two of them died when they were babies. My grandparents had a fabric of mosaics they used to work a lot, my grandma move to the USA when her third grandouther born, a few years later she got the citizenship of USA, but she still living on Mexico, my grandpa is an alcoholic so he went aggressive with my grandma , she took the decision to get the divorce and get out of there with no money or employee; she also had the responsibility of my mom, at that time my mom was a teenager they move to Xochimilco in very tiny apartment, my mom and my grandma need to work a lot to have the enough money to live. They live there for a quiet time, after a couple of years they decide to remodel and adapt a ground as departments, they begin to live on the rents. Now my grandma has his own house and is still living on those rents. In our days the opportunities are getting better but the fight for equity of oportunitues for women still alive, she suffer from sexism, violence and gender discrimination, unfortunatly this is the reality of lots of women in our contry, but we’re brave, our voice is being heard. My grandma is convinced that this situation can and will be changed.
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00:00:00 - Hi everyone, welcome to my podcast. Today we're going to talk about the history of my grandma Micaela Calderon Hernández.

00:00:07 - She was born in Mexico City. Her mother was 13 years old when she got her. She was a third of six siblings. Three of those were half-siblings.

00:00:17 - When she was born, she adopted her uncle's last name because she never knew her dad. She lived her childhood at Peralvilla and her last school or level was primary school.

school. Her mother was a single mother, so sometimes she doesn't have enough money to support her siblings, so she sent my grandma to a common for a while until my grandmother was 17 years. She got married with my grandpa. They have 10 siblings, but 12 of them died when they were babies. My grandparents had a fabric of mosaics. They used to work a lot. My grandma moved to the USA when her third granddaughter born. A few years later she got the citizenship of the USA, but she is still living in Mexico. My grandpa is an alcoholic, so he won't aggressive with my grandma. She took the decision to get divorced and get out of there with no money or employee. She also had the responsibility of my mom. At that time, my mom was a teenager. They

00:01:19 - They moved to Xochimilco in a very tiny apartment.

00:01:23 - My mom and my grandmother need to work a lot to have enough money to live.

00:01:29 - They live there for a quiet time.

00:01:31 - After a couple of years, they decide to remodel and adapt a ground as departments.

00:01:38 - As a consequence, they begin, live on their runs.

00:01:41 - Now my grandma has his own house and is still living out those rents.

00:01:48 - Nowadays the opportunities are getting better, but the fight of equality opportunities for women is still alive.

00:01:54 - She suffers sexist, violence and gender discrimination.

00:01:58 - Unfortunately, this is our reality for lots of women in our country, but we're brave.

00:02:04 - Our boys is being hard.

00:02:06 - My grandma is convinced that this situation can and will be changed.

00:02:11 - Thank you for your attention.

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