It's a given that most teachers are some of the most selfless people who walk the face of the earth, but let's acknowledge that they are also are some of the most underappreciated and underpaid professionals in America.
Haunted by the voices of lost women like Sophia Castro Torres and Vanessa Guillén, Myriam Gurba’s powerful essay explores trauma, femicide, and the pursuit of justice.
Audience members stunned by the royal family’s pigmentation talk have likely never set foot in Latin America and a glance at Latin American history reveals that while generation upon generation upon generation of “race mixing” has happened in the region, it has done little, if anything, to efface the white supremacist regime established by European settlers and colonists.
According to the nation’s penal code, rape ranks among the worst of crimes, a felony whose perpetrators deserve to be locked in cages. Criminal justice statistics, however, tell a much different story.
What racial and ethnic fakes do when they impersonate racially and ethnically minoritized people is engage in a pairing: They plunge the concept of property deep into the heart of race and race deep into the heart of property.
I taught high school for over a decade and my years spent working with U.S. teenagers taught me that many girls’ first experiences of sexual assault now happen through screens.
Like many rucas, I’ve found comfort in the videos of quasi-midwestern cholo Nathan Apodaca, aka @doggface208.
By denying our pussies pride and pleasure, shaming projects perpetuate, maintain, and strengthen white supremacist heteropatriarchy.
Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It has been thirty-four years since my last confession…
