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If it were my paradise I would take my time to find every crease and crevice. I would see all that I could see And admire all your mystery I would linger at the river And Linger at her mouth I would taste the water as it swept across my face I would let the [...]
The Sound of you voice lets me pretend like I am there touching you again Letting my mind spin to the point where I can feel your skin our lips pressed together and our bodies intertwined Finding each other with every breath Beneath the covers as if other lovers had never existed before That your [...]
Why Is My Prof Annoyed With Me? Expectations for Classroom Presence – Many students enter college rather unaware of what is considered acceptable behavior in the classroom. We often judge how we might present ourselves in the classroom based on our high school experiences. However, college is a very different environment than high school, [...]
Head to rest thrust those thoughts to the side glance glued to the rear view avoiding what we see in the past the gaze behind tire treads remind of us of where to stop… or slow down pavement worn reminding us others have been here before Pearl Jam sings Last Kiss on the radio… glimpses [...]
I am often too honest and then I get shy my Vulnerability is not a facade and neither is my Bravado My Depth has injured its spine diving into the Shallow too often Would it make you feel better if I lifted my skirt and slapped my dick on the table… Comparisons are never Fair [...]
Scabs Sometimes my scalp is flaky sometimes I spill things on my shirt sometimes I get these little scabs behind my ears and I often have pimples on my ass and sometimes on my legs you know…the backside of my thigh and it gets a little greasy beside my nose in that little crease and I [...]
Delusions of Grandeur (Granduer…grand dur…jur…)… the obvious becomes clear when I can’t even spell it… Think of me the way you would Webster… or Chaucer… Making shit up as I go along Not as big as Shakespeare’s pen but within my brain den I hit every ball like the eight in the pocket with perfect [...]
PRO-WHAT? Are you on official business? Justice for all Just not right now You say slaughter them all to save the one the righteous the American You will put 2000 crosses in front of a church to protest the deaths of the unborn without a qualm of their life to come Yet, let those that [...]
Message from the National Association of Chicano & Chicana Studies: On behalf of Aztlán Reads, I’d like to cordially invite you to the first public reading and signing for the much anticipated and recently released ¡Ban This! The BSP Anthology of Xican@ Literature edited by Santino J. Rivera on September 11, 2012 at 5:00pm at [...]
The following reading list is culled from the H-Grad email list, and it focuses on books that discuss and examine power at various historical moments. Key texts to notice are the works by Michel Foucault, Edward Said, Nicolo Machiavelli, and Paulo Freire. Others are reflective of more localized studies of power. All descriptions are by [...]
I received this great offer and opportunity from @ArtePublico Press today and wanted to share it with the Funk & Beans family. Be sure to sign up by May 20 to vote. And, don’t forget to pass it along! Dear Jaime: I hope you enjoyed the Perales conference. In order to organize events like the [...]
Since October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month I thought I’d write up some comments on James S. Olson’s Bathsheba’s Breast: Women, Cancer, and History. This book is deeply personal for the author, who lost a portion of his arm to cancer while researching and writing. His sweeping narrative is filled with the individual stories of [...]
The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas-Austin will premier an exhibit this fall dedicated to the history of censorship in the United States in the years between World War I & II. The Banned, Burned, Seized, and Censored exhibit will feature first edition copies of some of the most frequently challenged pieces of literature in [...]
The following is an essay I wrote as an undergrad. The chapter “Racial Formation” in Michael Omi and Howard Winant’s work Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s (1994) asserts that social structure and racial ideology are not mutually exclusive when discussing the problem of [...]
Just one more year of college. And for me, that means two major projects: my capstone and my honors thesis. The honors thesis is a project like nothing I’ve ever done before. Choosing my own topic. Choosing the books that I want to read. Choosing what and how I want to write on that topic. [...]
Labor Rights Are Civil Rights: Mexican American Workers in Twentieth-Century America by Zaragosa Vargas is a great read right now amidst numerous assaults on labor rights. Rumors have circulated claiming that the fight for labor rights is an attack on civil rights, but as Vargas clearly reveals, the struggle for labor rights is integral to civil rights progress. Vargas [...]