Mayo 2013
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I'm not dead
I’m just on a post-graduation/pre-grad school alcohol and cultural driven trip to Oaxaca and Chiapas. Stay tuned for pictures of ruins, giant iguanas, and monkeys I will be smuggling back into the U.S. somehow.
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Feliz día de las madres to all the Latina moms who...
Also don’t forget to celebrate your immigrant mamá on the 10th and this upcoming Sunday. Immigrant mamás halt their own life for yours. To get you here. To make sure you have a better future and opportunities than they had. They deserve 365 Mother’s Days a year, but on these two make them feel extra special. Entonces, feliz día de la madres a todas aquellas mujeres que merecen el mundo...
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I voted in DFA's Netroots Nation Scholarship... →
reclaimingthelatinatag:
corazonciito:
PLEASE HELP EMILIO WIN A NETROOTS NATION SCHOLARSHIP!
Emilio is undocumented and unafraid, a student at UNC, and a grassroots activist for multiple things, mainly readily available information on sexual health and the DREAM Act. Please vote! It takes 30 seconds!
Followers, please help out your fellow Latin@. Emilio is trying to earn a scholarship to...
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afrofuturisticlingo ha preguntado: what are you studying in grad school?
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I'm currently working on my last term paper (due...
and then somehow add this GIF to it:
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Which term best describes immigrants living in the... →
This is a poll by the Public Insight Network in response to the Associated Press’ decision to drop the term “illegal immigrant”. The Public Insight Network basically wants to know the public’s opinion on what they think undocumented immigrants should be referred to as in journalism. I’ve personally have been using the term “undocumented immigrant” for...
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“A college student in California costs the state $8,667 per year; a prisoner...”
– @MichaelSkolnik (via brooklynmutt)
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I just decided I'm not leaving my house or logging...
I refuse to explain to anymore people that Cinco de mayo is not even on the radar for most Mexicans AND THAT IT’S NOT MEXICO’S INDEPENDENCE DAY. Going to jail for running over a gringo in a sarape and fake mustache probably won’t look too good on resumes, either.
“Students of color are allowed to enter the classroom but never on an equal...”
– Critical Race Theory Matters: Education and Ideology | Margaret Zamudio, Caskey Russell, Francisco Rios & Jacquelyn Bridgeman (via sinidentidades)
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L.A. Times Ban on 'Illegal Immigrant' Puts... →
In case you missed it, a few days back the Los Angeles Times joined the Associated Press in officially dropping the phrase “illegal immigrant” from any and all coverage. The L.A. Times is taking it a step further by also banning “undocumented immigrant”, since they feel it’s not factually accurate in all situations. This Atlantic Wire piece explains the Los Angeles...
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“Migration is as old as humanity itself, with large-scale migrations typically...”
– From the Liberation News piece Imperialism, immigration and Latin America: An analysis of why people migrate. This article is an excellent reminder that people don’t migrate for fun. Just in Central America and México, U.S.-backed dictatorships and NAFTA have produced horrendous civil wars,...
“La mayoría de los hombres son una bola de pendejos.”
– my mamá
“The majority of men are a bunch of idiots” - my mom, the misandrist
Abril 2013
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"Being a fascist sympathizer is not the same as...
“Why are you saying Dalí was a fascist?”
“Why are you dismissing Dalí as an artist because of his political beliefs?
All actual shit sitting in my inbox right now. FASCISM IS NOT OKAY, TUMBLR. I also swear I am not making shit up. DALÍ WAS A FASCIST. GOOGLE SHIT. It’s not that difficult.
why is Salvador Dalí on the Radar
good job promoting fascists, tumblr.
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US school holds first integrated prom →
One school in Georgia has until now had separate end-of-term dance parties for African Americans and whites.
It’s 2013 and almost 60 years after the US Supreme Court desegregated public school, but just now this Rochelle, Georgia high school is having an integrated prom. But we live in a post-racial society, right…
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sinidentidades:
Political banners in Spanish make me cry more often than not.
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Enidris Siurano Rodríguez, Puerto Rican High... →
Enidris Siurano Rodríguez may only be in 10th grade, but she knows if she wants to make a change, she has to stand… or in this case, sit for it.
The Puerto Rican-born 15-year-old is making a statement for her cause: raising consciousness about the political situation of the island of her birth and emphasizing her disagreement with U.S. government policies towards the island due to its...
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I just wrote a term paper where I criticize the...
Idgaf
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According to 2005 data from the National Household... →
reclaimingthelatinatag:
This data comes from the blog’s Black Women of Brazil piece titled Nannies and maids: relations that perpetuate racism and sexism, an excellent post discussing the economic disproportion in Brazil due to historical and present-day race and sex relations.
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“I used【the】term【wetback】that was commonly used during my days growing up on a...”
– Alaska GOP Congressman Don Young apologizes?
A lil’ more info from LA Times
Each time the word【wetback】resurfaces, it carries with it a long history and a nuanced reputation. The English term, originally coined after Mexicans illegally entered the U.S. by swimming or wading across the Rio Grande,...
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“‘The CIA has been trying to destabilise Venezuela,’ Gonzalez said....”
– From the Aljazeera piece Venezuelans angry over US election critiques.
I am not defending the Venezuelan government, but the US has a long history of intervening in Latin American presidential elections and it’s just hypocritical and ridiculous for this country to pretend they care about...
“Yes, let us remember the victims of violence today, those who died and those who...”
– Chris Floyd (via theamericanbear)
When you read “the crippled souls who live by violence seek to impose their evil dreams on us all” also keep in mind the United States bomb that killed 30 people and injured at least 120 others today at an Afghan wedding.
US bomb kills 30 at Afghan wedding →
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Person Finder: Boston Marathon Explosions →
For those who are looking for someone or have information on someone who might have been a victim today in the Boston Marathon Explosions. The Red Cross has also launched a similar database called “Safe and Well” for those who are trying to find out if their loved ones are okay.
This a is a true tragedy and I hope everyone looking for a loved one finds them. My thoughts and best to...
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A note on "Mexican Barbie" and the rest of the...
After reblogging this post and saying my peace on the ridiculousness of the “Mexican Barbie”, I received messages letting me know that all the dolls from the “Barbies of the World” collection have a passport. Okay. That’s fine. I have no issue with the Mexican Barbie having a passport, and only because the rest of the Barbies, including the white ones have one, but...
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“One of the problems with the idea that America needs a ‘Conversation On Race’ is...”
– Ta-Nehisi Coates (via bee—box)
“Women, regardless of their race, creed, color or political affiliation, have the...”
– EZLN (“Zapatista”) Women’s Revolutionary Law (via saandusti)
btw
reinadeariza made the excellent point that the innocent Mexicans dying in the War on Drugs are killed with AMERICAN guns on this post she reblogged from me. Every word of that is true, and don’t you dare try to doubt or justify that shit.
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“What men can do to “protect” us is to check out the ways in which they put down...”
– The Combahee River Collective. 1979. ‘8 Black Women, Why Did They Die?’ Radical America 13.5: 46. (via james-bliss)
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I can’t wait till I’m old and I can retire to some ranchito in México and drink coffee and eat those breads shaped like cochitos all day and get super fat.
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“In less than four months, the Texas Poison Center recorded 112 cases of...”
– ~Gringos Gonna Gring~ (via chanclazo)
JAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJ. I just died. I also feel so bad for all the non-Latinos who won’t get how genius this is. 