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Gloria Rinconi Within a few weeks, my time as an intern with My (Un)documented life blog will come to an end. Yet it has given me the opportunity to be a voice for a community that is 11 million strong, hard working immigrants that are in search of the
Here, at SupaDaily we were absolutely appalled (<—yes, it’s a ‘scholarly’ word, we use) to learn that a fellow woman of color was disrespected and falsely called out for plagiarism because a word, a word – ‘HENCE’ did not sound like a word she would say?! Tiffany Corin Martínez,
I was really excited to write about Phoenix for BoldLatina. The fry bread was off the hook, I went to great little stores, the vibe was great, and I had zero Arpaio-ish moments of discrimination. I had just wrapped up a great trip with my mother, where we visited my
Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez Contributing Writer This is for those moments of dissonance. This is for those moments that you cannot name what bugged you about someone’s statement, but you know it was not right. This is for those moments that leave you silent, when you’re that person
Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez Contributing Writer I was recently talking to a friend, he is an immigrant and from Mexico and he said something that I resounded with my being so intensely that I went home and had some wine and let that ruminate a bit before I came to
Dear [American] white people traveling to Latin America and the Caribbean, I think too often trips are booked to “exotic” locations without any real understanding of what those trips mean to people living in these countries and how damaging it has all actually be to the communities. So if you
“In-a-world” (?? our bad ‘movie’ voice impression) of sensory overload and ‘screen’ distractions from ‘cat vids’ or reality shows on our mobile to desktop to our television sets (do we have any, anymore?) we are always ‘watching’ something. That’s why we found it so refreshing to be introduced to this
Being brown, and being very aware of how people react to your brownness is both a gift and a curse. I’ve had some brown friends who often times confused racism with lighthearted sarcasm. I stay away from these brown friends because they become defenders of White supremacy in a
In my early twenties I lost my first pregnancy. I was a young bride, and trying to become this thing that was scripted onto my body without my consent: a mom. With that in mind, after my first miscarriage, I lost it. People began to tell me the most inappropriate
This is for every woke brown girl who has fearlessly looked at your white professor in the eyes and demanded that he assign more POC in the syllabus… This is for every woke brown girl who has planned rallies and stood up to the police as they attempted to shut
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