Taking Our Social Lives Outdoors for the Summer.
Taking our social lives outdoors for the summer has meant that intimate moments are being shared with others that were previously uninvited.
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America Bleeds People, and She Needs You in Her Veins.
If we could go back, what would we do differently? When people are victimized by the laws of our country, does the end justify the means?
Enantiodromia: Eyes of the Enemy Within.
I have been challenged, and instead of meeting the gaze of my challenger with understanding, the tyrant gazes out from my eyes.
A Letter to Those in Isolation for the First Time.
If this period of isolation teaches you one thing, let it be that you cannot let life slip away. Even if it’s hard, do things you’ll remember.
Irony in the Time of COVID-19 and Social Uprising.
I am fascinated by irony. Totally in love with it. It is intriguing, baffling, infuriating, elucidating, and brimmed with absurdity.
Carrying the Bones: Price of My Un-Belonging Is Death.
She carried me, bones and flesh, as best she could with no one left to hold her. She did her best to create the we from the tattered, broken I-ndividualism.
Black Enough to Matter: To All My Mixed Soul Siblings.
To White people, I look Mexican or Black. To Black people, I look Mexican, White or Indian. I’ve been chased by girls chanting the N-word at me.
Sex Is Good, but Have You Tried Fucking the System?
Life is a continual dance of polarity. The ancient tantrics knew it. And anyone who regularly enjoys mind-blowing sex and happy relationships knows it.
A Love Letter to All in the Time of COVID-19.
It is time to love one other, love our lives, our families, our communities, our planet and its creatures, and to love this life as it is.
White Fairy Tales: When I Lost Abraham Lincoln.
My mother's poison killed too much awareness and shaped me with too much White privilege. But my reckoning with truth is more than theoretical.