This is my post from a year ago today. I did not realize then that what was actually happening looked more like Liz’ highly recommended post on verbal abuse, which I am featuring and which everyone should read. One useful point to be gleaned from reading in and around the post are that the abuser’s … More An Anniversary of Sorts
Here I was at graduation and interestingly, the filter hides the circles under my eyes. I am not particularly photogenic and I used to dislike photographs of myself for that reason, but now I like them because they are revealing. This one, in its unadulterated version, indicated that I needed much more sleep. Of course, … More Otro retrato
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The following words and Hearn quotation are from Ashley Morris’ excellent blog. Read the whole post. Nineteenth century writer Lafcadio Hearn wrote a letter to a friend in Cincinnati about two years after he arrived in New Orleans in 1877, during a grim period in which thousands died from yellow fever. He summed up his … More Lafcadio Hearn
Anytime is a good time to practice speaking Creole! Louisiana Creole is similar to Haitian Creole, partly due to the influence of the many Haitians who arrived, willingly and not, in flight from their Revolution. This is RAM at the 2006 Carnaval in Port-au-Prince. See and hear it, and then also Ganpati’s video response. Both … More Bel Fanm Kreyòl
Read the post from which this is excerpted, and the comments thread. It is very much like religion, really – it’s all up to her. All she has to do is be obedient, do things right, and she will SHINE. She just has to follow the rules, endure the “struggles,” and remain loyal and faithful, … More On Coercion
This is, of course, Lightnin’ Hopkins. Hurricane season is upon us, and all hurricanes are relevant. I am hiding from them today, however; my precise location is the Centro Cultural Bella Época, which is at the corner of Tamaulipas and Benjamin Hill, México, D.F. Axé.
I The other reason I so disliked Reeducation, and found it so destructive, was its assumption that one was not an adult, and its expectation that one become an adult for the first time, in a very limited way, under the aegis of Reeducation, and its very negative judgment of actual independence, individuation, freedom. II … More Independence, Individuation
I am not considering changing my own name, but I am considering changing this blog title to Flor y Canto or to the Nahuatl original of that phrase, in xóchitl in cuicatl. That is because the Sixth Sun is growing, and we are moving on to a new phase. In xóchitl in cuicatl indicates that … More In Xóchitl In Cuicatl
It is the 231st anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence, and I would rather return to the eighteenth century – or perhaps earlier – and start over. Then again, ours is not the only country whose government, or official culture could use reevaluation. This is from Mexico’s Third Root, by Luz María Martínez … More Afro-mexicanidad
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