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“Everybody should read it. But Latinas are the protagonists.”
Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez on her book, Tías and Primas, and challenging publisher expectations.
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With each breath, we inhale someone else’s yesterdays.
Los Angeles, Fires, and Undocumented Uncertainty
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Ode to Cecilia
You once told me that / I held the multitude of the universe in me
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La Que Se Caso Por Amor + Los Papeles (The One Who Got Married for Love + Papers)
Maria Lopez of @ytienepapeles discuesses marriage and the legal landscape undocumented people navigate both preceding their union and after.
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"El Miedo te Apendeja." (Fear makes you stupid.)
Maria Lopez on how creating @ytienepapeles led to leaving one job and working to foster communities of solidarity and friendship.
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"But Like, Do They Have Papers?"
Maria Lopez on starting @Ytienepapeles and "the reality of dating someone and just not being able to connect because they’re U.S. citizens and they…
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Uncovering the Hard Truth of My Immigration Status
"Although I spent nearly all my life in the United States, I am not the Chinese-American I always identified as."
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Tallying the Costs of Undocumented American Living
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