What’s on my bed stand? March 7, 2021 – Posted in: Blog
My friend, Rodrigo Reyes, a writer and actor who passed away in 1991, and was the first person I knew who contracted AIDS, used to say, “What you are looking at is looking.”
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My friend, Rodrigo Reyes, a writer and actor who passed away in 1991, and was the first person I knew who contracted AIDS, used to say, “What you are looking at is looking.”
Continue readingCheck out my review of DOG FLOWERS: Memoir by Danielle Geller
Continue readingAs Chicanas, Mexicans, and WOC our voices were not and have not yet been sufficiently heard in discussions on racism in the U.S. We continue our work to change this fact.
Continue readingFor those that would like to join in remembering and honoring her life, the Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph will be livestreaming on their facebook page a Vigil Service tonight (Sunday, February 28th) at 6:30pm CST and her funeral service on Monday, March 1 at 10:30am CST. Additionally, TASSC has created a memorial page in her honor, including a page for sharing memories of Sr. Dianna.
Continue reading“’Xicanisma Prophecies Post 2012 Putin’s Puppet’ tells another story. It’s hard-hitting political power. Want to read a poem that explains the political nightmare we are a part of, read this poem and memorize it and recite it at parties.”
Continue readingRest in power now, querida.
Continue readinghttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15505170.2020.1808130
Continue readinghttps://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/01/blinken-secretary-state-464268
Continue readingWe are not the women who’ll be hailed by White institutions for our poems. We are among the mothers whose hearts, laid heavy with history and tradition left to dark skinned women for 500 years did our best.
Continue reading(I’m currently using the working title, FALLEN STARS.)
I’m blessed to still be safe, with a roof over my head and food to eat but as a poet and writer, communicator, speaker, political commentator and independent thinker–it was critical to find my way out of that dark place of a world pandemic and in the U.S., an aspiring dictator in office.
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