Yass!

I find this headline a bit... presumptuous. The word ‘misplace’ seems to imply a lack of intent or a mistake. Correct me if I’m wrong, because I know we treat all incarcerated people terribly, but this doesn’t happen to children of incarcerated citizens at this scale. I have a hard time believing they ‘mis-placed’…

I love Dr. Lucy! I started following her when my OCD got bad & I was convinced that I would die in an earthquake at every given moment for like 6 months. After my psych meds started doing their job, I realized that earthquakes and disasters are more a socioeconomic issue than we’d like to believe. Earthquakes don’t…

I’m guessing that they’re not booing because Hispanic is an outdated term with racist origins.

I mean, there is much to be said about what names we call our ethnic studies classes. When I was in high school, our course was Mexican-American studies, in college it was Raza studies, then Latin@ studies, and I’m sure it’s something like Latinx Studies now that I’m a few years out of uni. And I think that even in…

Mostly that I’m not exempt from being racist just bc I’m brown & never really hung around white communities. That most racism exists in subtleties & nuances rather than in overt ways; So even mirroring the language and reasoning of oppressive movements is contributing to an environment where it thrives (ie tone…

Not my original idea, just paraphrased from my Black n Brown elders who have schooled my problematic ass :^)

The bureaucracy of publishing aside, it’s just really shitty to tokenize women of color for your personal, creative & intellectual gains. Like, fact checking or not, how do you “collaborate” with a person by appropriating her quote without even thinking to be like “Hey girl, is it cool with you if I publicize your…

I once was evaluated for a yearly raise and got a whopping 8 cent increase. This was from a corporation, so apparently the maximum raise we were allowed to get was 15 cents, and I was supposed to be grateful I would be taking home an extra dollar per paycheck. I quit the next week and the manager was very upset with…