…mestizaje, despite supposedly celebrating multi-racial heritage, is just a different form of colonization. Sure, because of European settlers, white, Indigenous, and Black relations were common, and that resulted in a…
…celebrating our LGBTQ+ community, particularly seeing folks uplift genderqueer Latinx excellence. For Elite Daily, Rhyma Castillo interviewed three third-gender activists about how ideas around gender, Indigenous traditions, and colonialism all intersect in their lived experiences. …
…(71%) Latino adults say speaking Spanish is not required to be considered Latino.” As we all know, Spanish wasn’t the native language of our various cultures. It’s a colonizer language,…
…us without the violences of war, migration, US imperialism, colonization. It has been healing to share this poem with other Salvadorans, Central Americans, and diasporas beyond these specific contexts, to…
…the English colonies. I thought maybe in the second half of the class, we would talk about Spanish colonization in other parts of the United States. But that never came!…
…Spanish too. Timestorm Imperialism and settler-colonialism has erased the true, ancient histories of hundreds of cultures around the world. Puerto Rico, one of the still extant American colonies of the…
…British Royal Family. This same family was the colonial power that ruled over 65 countries that have since claimed their independence, from Afghanistan to Zambia. Even watching The Crown, I…
…responsibility. Whiteness is a tool that Latinx folks are far too familiar with. From colonization to today, proximity to whiteness continues to play a role in how easy success can…
…trips abroad (it IS the closest) with episodes focusing on Mexico and Costa Rica (and the third, Morocco). In a slight to colonizers everywhere, the show doesn’t even bother with…
…rather in the aftermath of colonization and the ensuing, fraught mixing of our ancestors’ cultures. We’re “ni de aquí, ni de allá” no matter where we are or presumably, how…
