Politics
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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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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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The Political Animal
“I am a political animal,” Neve says to me. They sit cross -legged on the love seat, coffee mug in hand, a magazine propped up with their knee. Their focus is on whatever article they’re reading. Maybe something political. “What does that mean?” I ask. “You’ll see,” they tell me. “You’ll see.” The Things 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 -
The Republican Clown Show
As I write this, Representative Kevin McCarthy is poised to lose his 7th attempt at being Speaker of the House. These last three days it’s been a shitshow in American politics. And that’s saying something. There’s a sense of dread of what comes next as the detractors continually vote against McCarthy, keeping him from taking Continue reading
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“Sigh, but not aloud; make no mourning for the dead.”
On election day, I promised myself a social media blackout to reset the moment a projected winner was called. It has almost been a week since all major media outlets – this includes Fox News – announced Joe Biden and Kamala Harris the projected winners of the 2020 election; it almost feels like a lifetime Continue reading
Chapin City Blues 