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chican@/tejan@ trying to mitigate life in north tejas and become a full spectrum doula. i speak in spanglish and dream of home.
Apr 24 '13

Feeling pumped right now!!!! gonna meet with some l8dy about possible grant money to fund this org i’m helping start began the day with hot water and lime juice to soothe my estomago while listening this youtube mix of latin@ rap that i found yesterday. i gotta poop

Tags: self

Apr 23 '13

ddrkallday:

My band playing a Taqueria. It was a small but fun show. The first 3 minutes you cant hear my vocals but… this footage rules still 

footage of my good friends band! 

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Apr 23 '13

chingos of tears

i’m crying fucking chingos right now because white activists get to go to mexico and do direct action trainings when i haven’t been able to see my family or visit where my parents grew up or see the land that gave birth to me. when i am struggling to learn about my history, struggling to speak a language that i should have grown up with. but they get to go and come back and feel “enlightened” or some shit, not realizing that mexico has been throwing down and doing direct action for fucking hundreds of years against the Spanish, against other white colonizers, and against neo-colonization.

i have not been able to visit mexico in four fucking years. my dad used to take my hermana and i on small scale trips to make sure that we knew the land we grew up on. as a working class dad, he hasn’t had the time or funds to take us there and i think we are all itching to feel it’s warmth again. i’m privileged to have even had the opportunity to spend time there because there are many other chicanxs that are imagining the landscape through the estorias de sus abuelitas. 

every day i think about whether or not i can even call myself chicanx, whether or not i can call myself a qpoc because of my light skinned privileged  but having an emotional reaction this strong makes me think that it is okay. that i will be united with other chicanxs some day soon and we can all cry together. 

 

 

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Apr 23 '13
melaniecervantes:

Putting finishing touches on this skate deck. Finally! #dignidadrebelede

melaniecervantes:

Putting finishing touches on this skate deck. Finally! #dignidadrebelede

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Apr 23 '13

dressed up in drag with my fam, i look prty hott as a dewd

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Apr 23 '13

aye, vida

really tired, bath time felt good with maryama.
lots of breathing in and out, with st. jude and other candles glowing.
reminding me to breathe, listen to the water, and feel the candles on my skin. 

projects are going well, but are really stressful; the south is burning me quick but i keep holding on.  today i did a presentation about doulas, specifically full spectrum and radical doula work. this midwife made me feel as if the doula work i want to do in this area is going to be unattainable/tough as shit. it was a terrifying reality check and makes me want to work even harder to ensure that the doula work that happens here is going to be meaningful and understands the politics of pregnancy and childbirth and all of the intersecting oppressions. 

things that are happening: 

  • meeting with people to get possible grant money
  • helping build an organization from scratch (red state style)
  • giving a workshop for birth workers on caring/supporting glbtq pregnant people at the end of may
  • helping organize a summit for trans, womyn, and queer folk against the KXL pipeline in OK & TX in mid may
  • heading to austin at the end may to attend a workshop/ meet up with full spectrum doula folks to chit chat
  • going to the rio grande valley because i miss home
  • uhhhh somewhere in here finding a job because i am running out of money and needing to pay my loans back 

i’m tired and just want to write about my feelings. 

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Apr 22 '13

lalobalocaart:

D.I.Y & LOCALLY MADE FOOD: What the hipsters din’t tell you

I got this patches from 1384 screenprinting at the last anarchist book fair in Los Angeles right after a horrible white fucking person yelled at a beautiful brown mama for selling chicken at the gathering. The horrible person, skin waste and excess population was so fucking violent towards the brown lady that her gorgeous chubby lil brown kid felt embarrassed and was telling her mama they should go home. This pisses me off A LOT, pero for reals whats up with the amnesia? Who the fuck are the people that create the most waste and use up the most resources in the world? Who da fuck is related to the people that own Monsanto and all that horrible shit? Who da FUCK are the people that colonized, rape and took over land and COLONIZE indigenous foods?GUESS! So yeah amnesia pisses me off.

Como si fueramos nosotrxs who made up the horrible meat industry, como se fueramos nosotrxs who own those fuking meat businesses. como si nosotrxs no supieramos lo que es comer real food. Fuk that shit! Our muxeres are the reason why this world still revolves, they are the ones that use plastic containers for pots, to pack lunch, to store their money, to keep their legumes….they are the ones that cross seeds from one country to another, LAS SEMILLAS NO TIENEN BARRERAS EUROPEAS. Our muxeres are the ones that make sure that the food is eaten to its last bite. Our muxeres are the ones that plant flowers and make homes and entire neighborhoods beautiful full with plants that attract colibris and birds and all that magical shit.

The lady selling the pupusas, tamales, tacos in the corner WITHOUT fucking permits, maybe without fucking papers are THE REAL FUCKING REVOLUTIONARIES, FUCKING RADICAL ASS BEEZHIES.

We are hella DIY, some of our people don’t even need dishes cause they wrap their food with leaves. Some of our people don’t even need to buy dipers cause they use those 100% cotton panales to re-use and re-use. Some of our mamas used reusable fucking pads before being an eco-feminist was “in”. Some of our people had almost ZERO negative effects on mother earth cause they lived up in las montanas y en el rancho. Some of our people eat meat in minimal quantities, and guess WHAT some of our people still kill their own food. Some of our people have never had cars pero have hella tight nice walking/running legs. GUESS WHAT ELSE! The colonial food system, that McShit, Wendy BS, Burger Caca ALL that white trash food that is killing our people and creating an epidemia of diabetes WAS NOT CREATED BY OUR PEOPLE. My people drink fucking REAL fruit juice with honey, bitch.

So yeah let’s eat local! Let’s pick fruits from the trees in our neighborhood, let’s support our local corner muxeres huslting, let’s TIP our muxeres. Let’s honor the REAL DIY queenz that make trash into magical useful things. Let’s honor our muxeres that use the little money they make in this patriarchal racist system to fill their children tummies with ancestral beans, corn, potatoes and all that beautiful foods that are truly BROWN and from this continent.

DECOLONIZE VEGAN, DECOLONIZE LOCALLY MADE FOODS, DECOLONIZE D.I.Y, DECOLONIZE EVERYTHING!

por La Loba Loca

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Apr 19 '13
purrpulley:

estrn ave yearbook styles

babely western mass friends

purrpulley:

estrn ave yearbook styles

babely western mass friends

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Apr 19 '13

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Apr 18 '13
ughhhh i luv this bb, 
going to the valley within the next 2 months and i can’t wait to hard chill with them

ughhhh i luv this bb, 

going to the valley within the next 2 months and i can’t wait to hard chill with them

(Source: resinlips)

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