A Dramatization of Words

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Submit Your Nonfiction to the PEN/FUSION Prize

The deadline has been extended for the 2016 PEN/Fusion Emerging Writers Prize. Submit your unpublished short-form or long-form nonfiction by November 30 for the chance to win $10,000 and to have your work read by distinguished judges Marie Arana, Manuel Gonzales, and Johnny Temple of Akashic Books.

More detials at PEN.org/FUSION

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This Halloween I wanted to dress up like my favorite author. How did I do? #kafkaesque #booknerd

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“Cada paso que camino, me lleva a la libertad… Yo no vengo a disculparme, mujer soy”

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Tell Your Story!!!

We are looking for personal essays from Latin@s!

More info below:

Sobremesas publishes new material once a month introducing avant-garde Latin@ non-fiction, fiction and poetry from emerging and established artists. We feature creative and informative pieces that will elevate political discourse in the United States. At Sobremesas we of course worry and have our say on an assortment of issues, but we want to magnify the power of Latin@ faces, voices and experiences. ​For example, read Jennine Capó Crucet’s New York Time’s article on being the first to go to college, to get an idea about what we absolutely love from personal essays! We’re looking in particular for work from young Latin@s between the ages of 18 and 35.

We read submissions all year round. Original pieces only! That means we will never accept anything published elsewhere–personal blogs included! Simultaneous submissions are encouraged. Simply let us know if your piece is accepted elsewhere. (Congrats!) Bilingual pieces are accepted (English-Spanish and English-Portuguese pieces). We are currently not capable of accepting pieces exclusively in Spanish or Portuguese. Rights will return to you after publication. We just ask that you mention us in future publications! (Congrats again!) We hope to get back to you within two weeks. We also accept book, film and music reviews, as well as abuelita-style recipes! See below for more guidelines:

​Visit www.sobremesasmag.org for detailed guidelines!

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Free apsara show in town #siemreap

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At one of Siem Reap's night markets watching a drag show at the massage wing #cambodiarules #nightisyoung

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Singapore: Reality or Utopia?

What is Singapore? A city within a city or just another plain old city-state like the Vatican or Monaco? Is it segregated ethnically or a unified whole? More importantly, what caused Singapore (and its citizens) to act the way it does–you know, so pragmatic and orderly?

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Getting ready to train some soccer players in Jakarta #training

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Blog

Jakarta is home for me. It is a very interesting city where one can find absolutely anything from glitzy shops and restaurants to hyper-pollution and haze all around. One month in, I've come to...

Are you Latino & interested in traveling to Asia? 

Here’s my first installment in “Un Pupusero Abroad”

Learn how to survive the streets of Jakarta with part 1

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While it’s hard to find a person who doesn’t at least like tacos, they don’t always get the respect they deserve.

According to Déborah Holtz and Juan Carlos Mena, authors of Tacopedia, an impressive new tome, the taco is a focal point not just of Mexico’s cuisine but of its culture, too.

“Mexicans eat them so often that the expression echarse un taco, to grab a taco, is synonymous with eating,” they write. The phrase Le echas mucha crema a tus tacos, or “You add a lot of sour cream to your tacos,” means that someone thinks a bit too highly of himself.

To celebrate this food, the authors spent four years exploring the culture, history and variations on the taco — defined simply as “a maize tortilla wrapped around food.”

‘Tacopedia’: A Mouth-Watering Tour Of Mexico’s Taco Culture

Photo: Paulo Vidales/Courtesy of Phaidon

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When I listen to salsa on my computer and my feet start to dance 

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Beef noodles for breakfast with @ejoe101 #singapura #hawkerfood

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Working the Emory table at Education USA in Jakarta #emoryalumnus #recruiting #educationusa

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‘I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us. That is my belief.’

Franz Kafka, 1904 (via jsnimagist)

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BLCK LVS MTTR

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“Pray”

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LONG LIVE PAC 1971-1996

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"I say refugee, I say migrant, I say neighbor, I say friend, because everyone is deserving of dignity. Because moving for economic benefit is itself a matter of life and death. Because money is the universal language, and to be deprived of it is to be deprived of a voice while everyone else is shouting. Sometimes the gun aimed at your head is grinding poverty, or endless shabby struggle, or soul crushing tedium...We have to begin finding ways of dismantling this form of society that actively and passively organizes mass death and then, at the faintest flash of humane behavior, throws itself into paroxysms of self-congratulation."

Teju Cole on the current refugee situation (what "crisis" other than the downright xenophobia?) that afflicts the whole world and not just Europe: what of the lasting effects in the Middle East and North Africa? The international media has completely forgotten about the Rohingya and other migrants in Southeast Asia? And we haven't even begun to talk about what is nearest to the United States, Latin America (Mexico/Central/South). I'm sorry, it seems I used the wrong term. Sorry, not "migrants" but "refugees." What is the correct nomenclature, anyway, of someone who flees violence to new lands: refugee? migrant? displaced? Does it really matter? We're talking about a matter of life and death of hundreds of thousands of PEOPLE not cattle!

We also have to stop thinking that everything will be OK without struggle. That by opposing Donald Trump and voting for Bernie Sanders that everything will be OK. In the US we've learned (the hard way) what leaving things to our government and politicians accomplishes, about STILL unresolved issues with police brutality, gun control, and education–just to name a few.

Let us think and act beyond the boundaries set before us. After all, this so-called "crisis in Europe" is teaching us westerners many things about home and ourselves:

1) Displacement and migration are matters of life and death

2) We have to treat our neighbor as we'd like to be treated

3) We're all immigrants or sons/daughters of immigrants (TC: "Did all sixteen of your great great grandparents live, work, and die in the same town where you now live? If no, then you’re a child of migrants. If yes, then y’all seriously need to get out more.")

I'm usually never this vocal on social media, so I'm terribly sorry for taking up your time. I just think that as a son of a family of Salvadoran immigrants/refugees/migrants (my parent's don't know and couldn't even care less what term you call them) who are US citizens, we're just been happy to have been able to call a place "home." Not everyone has the same opportunities as you. I know from personal experiences. Together we can help ourselves, neighbors, and others keep the US and the World accountable.

Please read here: http://thenewinquiry.com/blogs/dtake/migrants-welcome/