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This collection of memoir, scholarship, poetry and thought is intended to offer our diverse communities' realities to counteract widely spread violent or paternalistic narratives imposed on us from the outside. Our Creative Realidades includes writing by Maria Nieto, Kathleen Alcalá, Vanessa Caraveo, Carmen Baca, Ernest Hogan, Rosa Martha Villarreal, Juan Alvarado, Vanessa Caraveo, Norma Burgos-Vázquez, Violeta Orozco, Nisé Guzmán Nekheba, Matthew Olivas, Edel Romay, Álvaro Ramírez, David Vela and Robert René Galván.
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La Dolorosa/Virgen de Guadalupe altar in honor of the 21 victims of the Uvalde, Texas, elementary school shooting.
La Uvalde Dolorosa bears the pain of 21 bleeding wounds for the 21 victims: Her Sacred Heart skewered with 7 daggers and 14 large swords piercing her chest and abdomen. This feature will run for 21 days in honor of the victims. |
“Last week when South Side came mistaking us for their rivals, my life slowed down almost as if it was paused. But life does not go on pause. This shit is not a video game and there are no restarts. I was scared shitless when I saw the chrome .45 pointed at my face two feet away from me.
“I wanted to be down, represent who or where I come from, but I just couldn’t do it the way so many of my homies were doing it...” Read “No Soy Cholo” by Jake Teran. |
“It was after dusk when Teddy came for us. His breath was thick and wet as it swept through the forest. Not even the coquis dared to chirp with him there, rummaging in the brush.”
Check out the latest in Tainofuturism, Sordidez by E.G. Condé, with a review by editor Scott Russell Duncan. |
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