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Ode to My Back

No. Not everyone survived the first Trump term.

“So much of this work is asking, what is the world we want to live in? What is the world we want to see?”

“When I think about the thing that I'm fighting for, it’s giving people back their time. Their time to be human, their time to be in this world to thrive.”

“When our movements are siloed, we have wins in one arena that could end up as losses for some other community.”

BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: The Cost of Being Undocumented

La Cuenta Turns Two!

“Immigrants are the enemy or the provider, depending on who you're talking to and who we benefit.”

“It's about coming to terms with both sides of who I am.”

"I wanted to capture the confusion of my youth."

Ode to My Heart

Captured by Silence by Hedgiee

“It's hard to put a price on the time that you spend away from your family.”

"There are bigger forces here at play in how the United States is changing and how culture is changing in terms of bilingual education."

“I wanted to make something that really captures what it is like to grow up switching between English and Spanish in the United States.”

Ode to My Hands

“The cost is so high that it could never be repaired.”

“If we don't pursue abolishing borders, then we're never going to get there.”

“It's not the border crisis. It's the humanitarian crisis that we should deal with.”

Ode to My Feet

A word about "independence" and an upcoming film

Broken Stems

"Soy su refugio"

Luna Inmigrante Welcomes You Home

Linguistic Loss: The Cost of English-Only Schooling & "Living a Life of Subtraction"

The Colors of English

"Don’t let the fear stop you."

"Lo quiero mijo, se me cuida."

Golden Cage

“We need art more than ever to be able to create hope.”

"A space where immigrant storytellers develop stories to help change the world."

“Our Fight is Not Over.”

The Opportunity For All Movement

"I am an academic, but I'm also a human and an advocate."

Racialization, Immigrant Identities, and "a broad process of othering"

On Navigating Daily Borderlands

Illegal is not a noun

A Request for Your Voice

From Shadows to Light

Mother. Am I?

Lose Yourself

Introducing De La Nada

"I felt like I had taken this poison that I had inside, and I turned it into something beautiful."

“The fact that so many Brown girls across the country have connected to this book makes me believe that I've done the right thing.”

The Cost of Nazi Platforms

“I feel like this project opened up my immigrant wound.”

“Something happens when we cross borders. You become someone else.”