Gabriela Barcenas

LA native. Bay Area transplant. The proud daughter of immigrants - deeply concerned over the state of our union. All opinions are my own. she/her

[Gabriela Barcenas @_gb_br]

This advice goes out to everyone marching and donating in solidarity with our black brothers and sisters. It's great that we're showing up in large numbers today. Let's make sure we continue to support each other in the coming days, weeks, and years.

[Tatiana Mac @TatianaTMac]

White people:
We gotta talk about burn out. You aren’t conditioned to be thinking about race this much because of your privilege. We need you to do all you’re doing today, tomorrow, and until the end of time.

Let’s talk about ways to focus on current & systemic change.

👇🏽

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

stop saying I’ll “thrive under pressure,” I’ll thrive in a studio apartment with hardwood floors, numerous potted plants and a trolley that stops at the local bookstore, museum and art gallery

[Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib @RepRashida]

I am the only Palestinian American serving in Congress, and my perspective is needed here now more than ever. I will not be silenced and I will not let anyone distort my words.

I’m from Detroit, where I learned to speak truth to power, even if my voice shakes.

[Gabriela Barcenas @_gb_br]

Ya gurl’s giving #resume writing advice. #newjobs

[JobHero @JobHeroHQ]

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[Gabriela Barcenas @_gb_br]

Found out that my @Apple sales associate filed the incorrect trade-in deal and cost me $600 in credits. Three hours, several calls, and seven support people, I’m in the same disappointed place and crying from frustration.

[Gabriela Barcenas @_gb_br]

This makes me so sad. Original stories help reflect our social and culture advancements and fuel imagination.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Paramount CEO Brian Robbins says they are moving away from releasing original animated movies in theaters & instead will focus on IPs.

“We’re not going to release an expensive original animated movie and just pray people will come.”

(Source: https://t.co/hXAjIiARzo)

[Gabriela Barcenas @_gb_br]

The train is just idling on the tracks. No information on crew arrival or estimated departure, @Amtrak

[Gabriela Barcenas @_gb_br]

Still waiting for @Amtrak to tell us the status of our train after our Texas Eagle engine never showed in San Antonio, after boarding a bus with no info, and getting dumped at Fort Worth. Amtrak… are you joking?

[Gabriela Barcenas @_gb_br]

... got a new @Apple phone... it won't connect to any internet or finish registering. After an hour-long chat, @AppleSupport asked me to restart my modem and canceled the chat during the 10-minute downtime. Thanks...

[Gabriela Barcenas @_gb_br]

When a mosquito gives you a double hickey. The bruising on my neck 😭😭😭.

[Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk]

Of course, by the 1990s, our baggy jeans sagged. Our Tims and Air Force 1s were fresh. Our dangling chains shined like our pride, like our defiant smiles. When they saw us coming, White Americans and elites of color called us menaces to society, just as they did zoot suiters. 10/

[Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk]

Fashion as resistance did not end with the zoot suits. In the 1960s, Asian, Latinx, and Black revolutionaries donned berets, what Huey P. Newton called the “international hat for the revolutionary.” Dashikis became a mark of racial pride among African Americans in the 1970s. 9/

[Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk]

Some White men wore zoot suits in Los Angeles. But they were not usually attacked; exposing the lie that White servicemen were acting on patriotism. It was never about the suit. Or the fabric. It was a racist attack on the defiant swag of young men of color. 8/

[Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk]

The so-called "Zoot Suit Riots" lasted five days. Mexican, Black, and Filipino youth were targeted even when not wearing zoot suits. The violence only ended on June 8, 1943 because servicemen were barred from leaving their barracks. The next day, Los Angeles banned zoot suits. 7/

[Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk]

Four days later, on June 3, White servicemen retaliated by beating and stripping any zoot suiter they saw. Racist cops watched. Racist reporters celebrated. Newspapers called the beaten men “zoot-suit hoodlums” and “organized bands of marauders, prowling the street at night.” 6/

[Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk]

In Los Angeles, street fights often broke out between the predominantly White groups of Navy servicemen and Mexican American zoot suiters. On May 30, 1943, one of these conflicts began, leaving one of the White servicemen with serious injuries. 5/

[Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk]

In the 1930s and 40s, zoot suits were the hottest trend for young Filipino, Mexican, and African American men like Malcolm X. An emblem of swag, of pride, of defiance. What White servicemen hated. Their mass attack on zoot suiters began #OTD 80 years ago in Los Angeles. A 🧵1/

[Gabriela Barcenas @_gb_br]

@lostmythicality @tryguys Orange you glad you were there when we needed it. Rest easy, you garish little shade. :'D

[Gabriela Barcenas @_gb_br]

I grew up in an impoverished neighborhood - my local library was the most magical place on earth. Access to novels, encyclopedias, and the fledging internet! Love you, public libraries.

[the little seamstress 🪡📚 @wren_and_paper]

"I'm completely library educated. Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn't afford to go to college, I attended the library three or four days a week from the age of eighteen on, and graduated from the library when I was twenty-eight."
~Ray Bradbury

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

at high school graduation my favorite English teacher said to me, “love your enemies, it annoys the hell out of them,” and I’ve been living by that advice ever since