No, let’s. Latinos that inherently assimilate and lose their identity to gain proximity to whiteness lose all self respect while being complicit in the oppression of others.
I’m at an Italian restaurant in Switzerland and just said “thank you, grazie, y gracias” to this Italian woman while she was serving me water and setting the table. My brain just kept jumping through languages. Off to Italy tomorrow 🇮🇹
I love a slow weekend. Taking my time cleaning up, taking my time at the gym, taking my time grocery shopping. I love ease, and taking as much time as I need to. Thank God for slow weekends.
On this Labor Day, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.
Being called a radical for believing every person should have enough food to eat, a roof over their heads, and access to healthcare and education is wild. But here we are.
As a woman, your standards for how men treat you should be so high that you'd rather let humanity go extinct than allow a disrespectful man to touch you or benefit from your energy.