What word would be better then? (Serious question. I didn’t know this was an offensive term).

It depends how people identify. Some prefer country of origin (Mexican, Puerto Rican etc), others prefer latino, latina or latin@…. others use chicano, chicana, or chican@. It’s all very specific. They’ve all got their own histories. They’re used interchangeably but they’re not identical. 

It’s just definitely not the word for me.

deliciouskaek:

moonblossom:

lilbookofkell:

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border-xser:

i am a traveler

a border crosser

i leave trails of home

wherever i go

i live

in the here

                     and there

in the conjunction

of an elsewhere

(via mujeristaxicana)

youngbadmanbrown:

I introduced myself to this girl the other day, told her to call me Jules

she says: Are you French? That’s a very French name.

And she’s not wrong, but I’ve never really considered it, that along with all the remnants of French colonization that still exist within Haitian language (and culture) that even our names are colonized too.

Sometimes I’ll meet a Haitian and they’ll be named Francois or Westner or some ish and I’ll think “What a Haitian ass name”

But what is a Haitian name, really, if not just a French one?

And that kind of bothers me because I don’t really want to walk around with this shit the way I have to walk around with all this other colonized nonsense. My last name is a god damn French pastry, something I’ve grown to find increasingly humiliating and rage inducing

Was is a joke? Did some fucking slave is owner think that shit was funny?

I want to be proud of the culture I come from but I do not know how much of it I’m supposed to want to claim.

This.

is doing The Most to infuriate me today.

I think it’s because it’s my last day at this job.

Him and my supervisor wanted to have a final lunch and initially I said no, but felt shitty and they cajoled me. He just can’t stop himself from pushing ALL my buttons. I adopt lockjaw and refuse to engage. Sometimes I silently stare away, sometimes I silently stare at him, and sometimes I silently side eye.

I am 2 hours and 15 minutes from not being on the brink of going postal.

#praise

I remember one guy at a Mecha conference identifying as Hispanic, and my 19 year old self is going, “WHYYYYYYY! That is such an ugly word.”

My dad still uses it. No se que puedo hacer… I can’t like do it lecture style, no papi that word has this history blah blah blah. La familia def doesn’t respond well to that kind of language. Maybe I’ll just start dropping xican@ and latin@ all over the place and see if it sticks.

Ahh. All you Hispanic-haters reblogging this, TQM.

Maybe chills isn’t the right word—-more of a shudder

#and a gag or two

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   loreniuxtamayo replied to your post: Tooth ache

   are you in San Diego? I have something that might help. LMK

not yet. 7 more days!

hundredyears replied to your post: Tooth ache

Dicen las abuelas que el clavo molido aplicado con algodón en la zona que te duele desaparece el dolor. Si vives en Estados Unidos búsca Clove Oil, es lo mismo.

ohhh. voy a tratarlo, gracias! xo