backup dancers, petroglyphs, missing family albums, rent controlled apartments, güiros y panderos, out of print poetry, broken spanish, west coast ricans, fake debts, black flags, and the mothers of great modernists: endless feeling 4 mi gente ⚡️🌺🖤🇵🇷 e n d l e s s #bookdeal
The folks at @Equatormag are putting out so much essential reading that it's hard to keep up. This dispatch from a sweltering Mumbai is a postcard from all of our futures.
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days.
ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
It’s actually really disheartening seeing other latinam (tho US citizens) authors who I respect and know personally be recklessly dismissive of how some of us want to talk about Argentina. As if they too do not come from a nation state that is founded on white supremacy.
The fishermen spend Sundays singing
karaoke salsa classics on the public beach,
their voices trained by salt and resignation.
I translated "Septihambre" by Nicole Cecilia Delgado for @POETSorg 🌴🌊
https://t.co/l2pBxVpyWS
Israel’s nature reserves in the West Bank use the language of conservation to restrict Palestinian life while facilitating settlement expansion. Diana Kruzman reports: https://t.co/G299WIVMOZ
Decided to run D’Angelo’s 2012 Philly performance just because. I have returned to it so many times since he passed. The opening number being Motherlode and a shout to Dilla too gives me chills. Just incredible. So sad he’s gone
https://t.co/1eX5hXJYZC
🚨I've seen enough🚨 Claire Valdez has defeated Antonio Reynoso in the Democratic Primary for New York's 7th Congressional District.
A commanding victory for Mayor Mamdani and NYC-DSA.
The Commie Corridor is cemented.
Just coined the term “clout angel”, the opposite of “clout demon”, which is when you use your clout to bestow material rewards on the people around you and/or when you know how to be normal about the amount of clout your have