Essays and Opinions
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.
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.
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.
Reverse Racism, Critical Race Theory, and Richard Henry Pratt
Looking at racism through the Critical Race Theory lens and using historical context to deter that reverse racism is not real.
Stop Calling People of Color White-Passing
By calling people of color white passing does that contribute to ethnic erasure? Is the term white passing a problematic descriptor?
The Nature of Capitalist Exploitation
An analysis on capitalism as a system grounded from exploitation.
Not All White People Are Racist, But All White People Benefit From Racism.
The social hierarchy of American culture and where white people stand in representation unravels that people of color are merely components of the social pyramid…
Christianity as a Bypass for Homophobia.
Digging deeper into homophobia in the Hispanic and Christian community… and how quite literally the bible displays no interpretation of anti-gayness.
Colorism in Hollywood
Diving deeper into why and how people of color are continuously getting written out of stories and re-written as white.
#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?
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…