School
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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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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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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
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Life and Learning: A Small Update
After reading Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire, the teaching bug has reared its ugly little head again. The teaching bug that I once forced out of my head midway through my undergraduate years after taking a sociology of education course and hating every second of it. Especially after learning the inner workings of Continue reading
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Dear Gloria
What follows is a slight rewrite of a class assignment. The assignment was to write a response letter to “Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to Third World Women Writers” by Gloria Anzaldúa which can be found in the pages of A Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, an anthology edited by Continue reading
2024 Presidential Election, Activism, Adolf Hitler, Borderlands/La Frontera, Cheerie Moraga, Dinesh D’Souza, Donald J. Trump, Ernst Röhm, germany, Gloria Anzaldua, history, Homophobia, Islamophobia, Michael Brown, Nazi Germany, Politics, Protests, Racism, Sean Hannity, This Bridge Called My Back, Trayvon Martin, Vivek Ramaswamy, Women of Color, Writing As Healing -
End of Semester, Annotations, & Other Concerns
Eminem Approach Part of my anxiety about grad school stemmed from my fear of academic writing. Having been away from the classroom since my graduation in 2007, I haven’t written anything academic in a long time. Most of my writing dealt with reviews, blogging my day-to-day, and some press releases for my old job. And, Continue reading
Chapin City Blues 