Growing up in El Paso, TX (EPT) and embodying three marginalized identities—gay, Black and Mexican—made me acutely aware of the
Category: On the Ground
Dear Latines: Your Antiblackness Will Not Save You
Dear Latines,[1] your antiblackness will not save you. Your aspirations to whiteness are deadly (RIP Trayvon Martin; RIP Philando Castile);
Documenting Latinx Communities: Podcasting and Oral History in the Time of COVID-19
Coping with COVID-19 A question that has been lingering on my mind since March is: How are people coping with
Transitioning U.S. Latinx Students to an Online Environment for Displaced Study Abroad Students
During my spring break in Rosario, Argentina I was woken up on an early overcast Thursday morning by the ping
Mothering a Latino Boy in the Trump era
Colorblindness betrayed me on Tuesday, November 8th, 2016. To be fair, it did announce its arrival the night before. When
Social Distancing While Brown
“Come inside child rest yourself it’s okay to want to be held ain’t we all just trying to be some
Not your Mami
“Racism intersects with sexism to pit women of color and white women against each other. Women of color are sexualized
Latina on the Border: Musings of a Feminist Immigrant, Part Two
It was to counter feelings of being an alien from outer space that I dived headlong into assimilation, into the
Latina on the Border: Musings of a Feminist Immigrant, Part One
What am I but Woman and Other? While engaging the complex host of issues that accompany immigration, uprooting, and gender
Making Sensation and Sense of the Migrant Caravan of Fall 2018, Part Two
Migrant Border Politics My previous installment questioned tendencies on both right and left to represent the migrant caravan through reductive
Making Sensation and Sense of the Migrant Caravan of Fall 2018, Part One
General Introduction On October 13, 2018, a large caravan of migrants departed from San Pedro Sula, Honduras, heading north toward
Border College: The Past, Its Present, Our Future
I little thought as a graduate student that my academic future lay in driving a truck around Texas brush country.
On Being Borg, On Being Puerto Rican
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not
Belonging and Accents: Salvadoran Diaspora in Mexico and the U.S.
We are not born with accents, yet accents and dialects are tied to region, nationalities, and class. Like many immigrants