A SPIRIT THAT MOVES AMONG OUR PEOPLE and means to do great harm to many of us cloaks itself in many shapes. An extreme aversion to what is perceived as cultural shifts in the USA hides behind ideas of patriotism or English-fetish and manifests as cruelty.
THIS MARCH, I’ll be presenting at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity’s Transforming Race Conference. This article provides the backstory for why I began the Unapologetic Mexican blog as well as prefaces my talk at the conference.
As we usher the last decade into the realm of memory, it’s time to stop viewing immigration reform as an Us vs. Them issue.
JUAN FELIPE HERRERA, celebrated and prolific Chicano poet, has been awarded the PEN/Beyond Margins award for his latest work, Half of the World in Light.
INDIGENOUS LEADER AND MAN OF THE PEOPLE, Evo Morales sweeps to victory again. It is a huge win for people power, for people-oriented politics, and the indigenous, as well.
“OUR NATION is debating a crisis on par with that which gave birth to the Revolution of Independence, The Reformation wars and the Mexican Revolution. Just as was the case then, this is a long overarching crisis in our economy, politics and culture.”
IMMIGRATION ADVOCACY GROUPS, activists, and various politicians are gearing up to move immigration reform forward. Meanwhile, xenophobic restrictionist paranoiacs lie about numbers because their turnout is dismal.
THIS STORM is unfolding as it will, and we are yet to see how it will end. The electricity feels threatening at times. But here is a chance, now, finally to talk about the things we need to talk about. Which means the chance to make real change.
ART, ACTIVISM, AND TECHNOLOGY MAESTROS will wield the paintbrushes that splash a poetic hue of dawn over the cracking and flaking façades of injustice that today, stand, smoking, hulking, and hovering over la tierra y nuestra primavera!
IT IS A POSITIVE SIGN FOR U.S. SOCIETY when the White House moves to address the needs of the exploited, and the dreaming, and the hungry. It is a negative sign for our society when we are not allowed to approach such actions without assuring everyone that someone’s gonna have to pay—and it will be the least powerful or culpable.
COURAGE COMES IN MANY DIFFERENT FORMS. For Esmeralda, a transgender asylum seeker from Mexico, who faced horrific circumstances in immigration detention, it came in the form of seeking justice.
VETERAN’S DAY. It means many things to many people, and all that can shift in a minute depending on which side of the sand you are on. But the quality in a human that causes them to sacrifice for other humans is an enduring, memorable, and crucial one.
YOU CAN TELL THE DINOSAURS of our culture. They are the ones who continue to try and act out decrepit cultural values the rest of us banished long ago. Joe Arpaio is one.
THERE IS A HIDDEN COST to our delicious food. There is a hidden cost to Capitalism. There are vulnerable people suffering, and for their trouble, they are demonized.
IF THE POLICE are out to alienate themselves entirely from the people of the US, they should continue Tasering people in a sadistic manner.
House of Nezua
the XOLAGRAFIK theater!
