Doldrums
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Everything that I Will Ever Know (Zine)
Everything that I Will Ever Know (poem) (for Eddie Montalvo) The archives are filled with Anita Byrants, white, wealthy, privileged, whose voices celebrate discrimination, colonization, filling up boxes and mudding up (whitewashing) history while erasing (bastardizing) our existence, and yet… within nooks and crannies within the gaps and interstices, hidden in the subtext of manuscript Continue reading
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Distortion on TV
There’s a post I have sat on for a few months now. A post that I am not sure if I should write. It started back when we lost Andrea Gibson, one of my favorite poets. The shock that I felt when I read the news. The way my emotions boiled. It was as if Continue reading
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Walk
I have been consuming photography videos on YouTube. Each professional has a different take on how we should compose our photographs, but the same tip for beginners: go out and shoot. And so, I took two walks today. One around campus during my break at work. And one around the neighborhood before it got too Continue reading
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I Made A Zine
A couple of months ago, I adapted and shared a presentation I created for my Language & Identity class. Because I was not fully satisfied with the presentation and less so with the post, I returned to it during the final month of the class and redesigned it as a zine. I do believe Continue reading
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Thoughts on 42
I thought I’d be grayer, more wizened. And while I see that my hands aren’t as smooth as they once were, my hair is thinner, I still don’t look like what I imagined someone my age would like it. Hell, I’m just happy that I survived a decade longer than teenager-me figured. It has been Continue reading
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Hello, I’m
Labels: How I Interacted with Them, Where They Come From, What They Mean to Me The following is adapted from a presentation I gave in my Chicanx/Latinx Language & Identity class. Enjoy. Or don’t. It’s whatever. Americano: If I had asked my grandmother what I was, she’d say “americano.” This was her mindset. She was Continue reading
Chapin City Blues 