On the Ground – Latinx Talk

Organizing on the Ground for BLM: A Gay Mixed Black and Mexican Perspective

Growing up in El Paso, TX (EPT) and embodying three marginalized identities—gay, Black and Mexican—made me acutely aware of the

Dear Latines,[1] your antiblackness will not save you. Your aspirations to whiteness are deadly (RIP Trayvon Martin; RIP Philando Castile);

Coping with COVID-19 A question that has been lingering on my mind since March is: How are people coping with

During my spring break in Rosario, Argentina I was woken up on an early overcast Thursday morning by the ping

Colorblindness betrayed me on Tuesday, November 8th, 2016. To be fair, it did announce its arrival the night before. When

“Come inside child rest yourself it’s okay to want to be held ain’t we all just trying to be some

“Racism intersects with sexism to pit women of color and white women against each other. Women of color are sexualized

It was to counter feelings of being an alien from outer space that I dived headlong into assimilation, into the

What am I but Woman and Other? While engaging the complex host of issues that accompany immigration, uprooting, and gender

Migrant Border Politics My previous installment questioned tendencies on both right and left to represent the migrant caravan through reductive

General Introduction On October 13, 2018, a large caravan of migrants departed from San Pedro Sula, Honduras, heading north toward

I little thought as a graduate student that my academic future lay in driving a truck around Texas brush country.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not

We are not born with accents, yet accents and dialects are tied to region, nationalities, and class. Like many immigrants