Originally posted on Thursday, March 5, 2015 on Facebook Why I will march this Sunday, March 8th for International Women’s Day… I march for my mother. Because she is the rock and the foundation of our family. Because of her…
Originally posted February 26th on Facebook. Countdown to #IWDLA2015 #WhyWeMarch8 #AF3IRM 9 MORE DAYS Each day I will list one reason why I am marching on 3/8 with my AF3IRM sisters in LA. #1- I WILL MARCH on 3/8…
Daughter, Look at you. Your eyes are half-closed. Your mind is throbbing. Your chest hurts with every breath. But you are not dying. You are the sun in the night. You are sad. You do not eat…
The new militant mother wakes her kids up before dawn for indigenous ceremony, and spends her Saturday nights in strategizing meetings. She organizes on the streets with trafficked women and has confronted La Migra and border police at least once…
As she sat in front of her new Samsung thirty-seven inch high definition TV, large pillows stuffed inside handmade pillow cases both adorned and propped my mother on her bed. She changed channels every few minutes to see if there…