Feeling inspired on this rainy day in NYC 11/01/14.
<3 I am forever blessed to have shared so much love, passions and vision of life with so many brothers, sisters and loves from the warm land of Jamaica.
Julio Cortázar
No es fácil en absoluto ser cronopio.
Ay de los cronopios.
The Guardian: What is some advice you have for women who want to write online?
Ayesha Siddiqi, EIC of The New Inquiry: The voice is your head that’s asking how dare you is the voice produced by an environment that’s going to be challenged by your daring. The risk of undervaluing what you have to offer, especially for women of color, is so much greater than the risk of overvaluing it. Your contribution may not be grand, but its absence is going to be deeply felt and be part of a much greater void in our culture and history.
The fact that they were three Muslim students, I think, has had something to do with the muted – relatively muted response we have had and I think that it’s time to say all lives matter.
Geraldo Rivera on The Chapel Hill Shooting (via themindfulmuslim)
A system cannot fail those it was never built to protect.
W.E.B. DuBois (via america-wakiewakie)
“Indigenous like corn, like corn, the mestiza is a product of crossbreeding, designed for preservation under a variety of conditions. Like an ear of corn-a female seed-bearing organ-the mestiza is tenacious, tightly wrapped in the husks of her culture. Like kernels she clings to the cob; with thick stalks and strong brace roots, she holds tight to the earth-she will survive the crossroads.” – Gloria Anzaldua
I am an indigenous-mestiza-afrodescendent trans-national Latina sister from the picturesque South American city of Guayaquil and brought up in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. I love and respect my journey in exploring my browness and my womanhood.
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