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Brujas: A Conversation in Reclamation and Commodification
There used to be a time when to be a called Bruja was received with a negative connotation. Brujas were never mainstream or even an acceptable self-identity to lay claim. Many afro-centric and indigenous religious and spiritual practices were hidden from dominant (read European) society. To practice anything other than Christianity meant persecution, beatings, and death. Growing up I often sat in…
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The Forgotten Ones
On Thursday, August 18th while walking out of my office, I got the text. One of my girlfriends sent me a screenshot of a missing person flyer. The photo attached was that of a young Latina with a cluster of chestnut colored coils and doe-shaped eyes staring back at me. Maylin Reynoso. I allowed her accented name to fall from my lips con cariño. A gentle whisper. An homage. A memo. An intimate…
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What We Need to "Get Right" about J.Lo and Cultural Appropriation
What We Need to “Get Right” about J.Lo and Cultural Appropriation
J to the L-O hello! It seems Jennifer Lopez needed a wake-up call after her major faux pas on Monday when she carelessly tweeted a photo of she and Lin-Manuel Miranda promoting their new tribute single in honor of Pulse victims, Love Make the World Go Round. In a since-deleted tweet Ms. “Jenny from da block” allowed her political correctness to supersede any historical context of black lives…
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Because I Love My Kids; I Learned to Be Their Friend
Because I’m not your friend, I’m your Mother and y is a crooked letter. These were the words most prevalent in my youth. That and because I said so. Those two phrases would frame the narrative of my childhood. My mom was a working single woman raising two daughters in pre-gentrified Brooklyn during the height of the crack epidemic. She was loving, she was sensitive, she was supportive, and she…
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'Lemonade' Is Not a Latina Narrative
‘Lemonade’ Is Not a Latina Narrative
photo: tumblr Hi my beautiful people. After watching Queen Bey’s Lemonade I was all kinds of inspired. So I wrote about it and guess what? Huffington Post Latino picked it up. Here’s an excerpt On Saturday, Beyoncé released her visual album Lemonade, an apotheosis to the Black woman. I, as many Beyoncé fans, watched in awe at all the conjuring of black girl magic taking place on my screen. By…
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January 15, 2016 When I finally sit down with Peggy Robles-Alvarado, it is Wednesday night and she has just returned home from a fellowship at The Home School in Miami. The Home School organizes we...
I recently sat down for a chat with self proclaimed “boca grande” Peggy Robles Alvarado and talked craft, spirituality and why magic making is not for pendejas.
Monday nights have been crowned my guilty pleasure night. It is the sole night of the week where I can unabashedly imbibe the ratchetness of reality television while enjoying a chilled glass of SX ...
Monday nights have been crowned my guilty pleasure night. It is the sole night of the week where I can unabashedly imbibe the ratchetness of reality television while enjoying a chilled glass of SX ...
4 Alarm Blaze
sometimes love is the fire that consumes us and we are just its embers.
My children have been taught to dehumanize themselves long enough to not be seen as a potential threat because “human error” may cost them their life. This is what it means to mother a black or brown child in America.
Curate your life in such a way that joy is deliberate and unapologetic.
bkwrita
The Emptying
I’ve learned it is possible to be a myriad of things to many a person and still not enough.
The Rationing
For the women who continue to love their men in pieces-- mouth full of condition a carcassed tongue bed of husk hand of talons; there is no shame in the feeding. But when the famine has ended will you have been satiated?
How are you training yours?
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Tell me, about women who wield their tongues like weaponry. Grinding teeth against censorship, holding silence by the throat, till its' skeletons quiver. Tell me, about the women unafraid of the bellowing. The howl. The way it grips the calm, deconstructing the foundation. (bkwrita)
Yes.
