July 25th, 2012 at 6:00PM

Do

Incessant, melodramatic frivolous nature… Perhaps, but it makes perfect sense to me! does!

#postmodernism#literature#ambiguity#ethnic studies
May 19th, 2012 at 12:43PM
REBIRTH LAYS AT THE PINNACLE OF ALL POSSIBILITIES —

ME…

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May 13th, 2012 at 8:26PM
One does not pass through the university system unchanged. It is the intellectual factory of Corporate America, whose intention is to educate us to be law-abiding consumers-citizens. More insidiously, the university functions to separate us from the people of our origins, which in effect neutralizes whatever potential Impact our education might have on them. The university allows a benign liberalism, even a healthy degree of radical transgressive thought, as long as it remains just that: thought translated into the conceptual language of the dominant class, and as such rendered useless to the rest of us (Moraga 173). — Out of Our Pedagogical Minds Toward a Pedagogy of Revolt
#literature#ethnic studies#writing#feminism
April 8th, 2012 at 8:26PM
If she had not felt them touching her, Mama Chona would have floated straight to heaven where she was certain of admission. How could the heavenly hosts turn her away? It was the moment she had been waiting for all her life, a life of loss and sacrifice. Her husband and five children had been taken from her and she had suffered enough from the conduct of her survivors to be canonized. If there was justice in heaven, as she knew there was not on earth, the angels were preparing to welcome her with songs and jewels in their hands as offerings for the scars on her soul. Music and beautiful things had been her secret passions. —

dedicated to my grandma/ Abuelita,

Arturo Islas, The Rain God 
#chicano/a literature#education#ethnic studies#grief
April 6th, 2012 at 12:04AM

Speak Fear/ Speak Near

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#education#people#abstract#ethnic studies
April 3rd, 2012 at 10:19PM

Abuelita, Lupita de la Cantina. 

Nieta de Lupe… Napowrimo begins with the limbo and prospect of loss of a totally unique, lovable—strong tempered, STOIC, womyn!!! Who paved the way for two daughters… who paved the way for some of her nietos y nietas including me…

Me dijo una ves cuando estaba encarcelara y de vaga en las calles esperando como me iba poner hasta las chanclas de alla “Mija, pues, aqui estamos, aqui te esperamos, cuando vas a venir?” Who wasn’t about talking about her feelings or mine or any of ours but was here for the latter half of the twentieth century making sure we were all accounted for… from a high powered “international attorney” who she supported in his early days of his career, to an uneducated daugther, who she supported because of the lost relationships—the torn lives of families that are separated by transnational deformity. To the youngest granddaughter who she witness struggle through the University system after rehab and building ties with family again… I was supported by this particularly empowered chanting womyn who did only one thing pa dar me esperanzas —-she chanted her prayers… even in hiding. making sure her sacred space was protected. Aqui y ayi te espero… 

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#family#education#testimonio#ethnic studies#poetry#napowrimo
March 11th, 2012 at 7:16PM

I am unpopular and reviled and I revel in it. Because it teaches me something about the world.  

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#ethnic studies#education#womyn's studies#your mom#my mom
March 11th, 2012 at 12:13AM
Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the one which is the most secret, which requires the least physical labor, the least material, and the one that can be done between shifts, in the hospital pantry, on the subway, and on scraps of surplus paper. — Age, Race, Class, and Sex by Audre Lorde
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March 9th, 2012 at 9:25PM

Silence..

paradox…

It’s funny because I have laughed a lot at racial jokes in the past. What are you going to do? sometimes somethings sound clever because language is that way… tricky, tricky—because then it’s just like your perpetuating the oppressions. 

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#education#ethnic studies#theory#identity