November 2011
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You Bring Out The Mexican In Me →
hellabreezys:
by Sandra Cisneros
You bring out the Mexican in me. The hunkered thick dark spiral. The core of a heart howl. The bitter bile. The tequila lágrimas on Saturday all through next weekend Sunday. You are the one I’d let go the other loves for, surrender my one-woman house. Allow you…
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Mount Moriah fans come out for an impromptu video on a roof-top parking deck. Hueism Pictures hueismpictures.com
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QUEERS READ THIS. →
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Fundamentally, I started writing to save my life. Yes, my own life first. I see...
– Cherríe Moraga (via muxersita)
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This tribe called “Women of Color” is not an ethnicity. It is one of the...
– Aurora Levins Morales, My Name is This Story from Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios. (via muxersita)
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La Malinche
Yo soy la Malinche.
My people called me Malintzín Tenepal the Spaniards called me Doña Marina
I came to be known as Malinche and Malinche came to mean traitor.
they called me—chingada Chingada. (Ha— ¡Chingada! ¡Screwed!)
Of noble ancestry, for whatever that means, I was sold into slavery by MY ROYAL FAMILY—so that my brother could get my inheritance.
… And then the omens began—a god, a new...
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