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Cesar Chavez, Chicano Poets, and Why I Don’t Identify as Chicane/a.
Ana Murguia, Debra Rojas, and Delores Huerta coming foward about Cesar Chavez being abusive and predatory come at no surprise to many Mexican American women and women of color as a whole who have faced misogyny and abuse in movement spaces. These allegations have also been rippling through Latine spaces across the country this week,…
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This Is Why I Never Left: The Playlist
This playlist is a collection of songs I listened to while writing the book / while I lived in Santa Cruz. It was a kind of moodboard I used while deciding what themes and concepts I wanted to talk about in the book. I also named a lot of poems after songs that reminded me…
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Ways of Seeing: The Influences and Conversations That Inspired ‘This Is Why I Never Left’
When I was in community college – there was an English professor that everyone dreaded. He taught the only honors English 1C section – a required class if you wanted to transfer to university. When I showed up on day 1 of class, he turned off all the lights and had us arrange all of…
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NYC: Poems & Photos
When I was in junior high or maybe freshman year high school, my older sister gave me this orange sparkly fish-eye camera and I loved it! I used to take it everywhere and I was so excited every time I got my photos developed. That camera eventually broke, but it’s what originally got me into…