Essays and Opinions


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Colonizing Spirituality

The digital space has made it easier for people to look into spirituality as something abstract, something human and something chargeable and renewable. It has made the brujerias and the vodous of spiritual practice accessible, but it also aids in the erasure of BIPOC culture and the foundational message that BIPOC practitioners have on spiritual practice.

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Race Literacy. 

Too often we mis-use racial and ethnic descriptors and consequently spread misinformation that hinders our ability to have meaningful and important conversations about race. We become racially illiterate.

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Pocket Feminism

Feminism is not just pulling out the advocacy card when it’s trendy. It is much bigger than the size of your pocket, and when it is hidden in your jeans and when it crawls back into the backs of your tongue, the weight of its silence is immeasurable. To be a feminist, is to be the one person who stands up, because to sit down in a room full of sexists is to contribute to the silent epidemic of behaviors like homophobia and racism.

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Colorism in Hollywood

Diving deeper into why and how people of color are continuously getting written out of stories and re-written as white.

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#LatinosForTrump

Despite the many atrocious, xenophobic and degrading comments driven from Trump and his campaign, he still remains with much support from our Latino brothers and sisters. Why?

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Let’s Talk Gender

Gender is a conversation that is difficult to navigate because for so long the term was used for one specific purpose: to determine the behaviors of the sexes and to profit off of those exact behaviors…

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