The Little Black Boy in the Black Family and Other Technologies of Dehumanization.
I always knew I would have to be ready to face racism. I did not suspect it , I knew it. My greatest fear was not whether it would appear...
Garifuna: a people who sing to the resistance and memory of the sea
The Garifuna people rise from a history of displacement and survival. The result of the forced encounter between liberated Africans and Carib and Arawak peoples in the insular Caribbean of...
Pregones for Environmental Justice
Art, ancestry, and Afro-Latin resistance raise their voices against environmental racism in Seattle In the memory of Black and Indigenous peoples of Abya Yala, the pregón is not just simple...
La Johan Mijail: Body, speech and transvestism as radical dissidence.
Johan Mijail does not introduce herself: she bursts in. Her mere presence, her voice, her gesture, and her words are manifestations of a living art that transcends genres and categories....
Peinatón (Hairstyle-athon)
“Hairstyles They’re a form of expression That helped During enslavement They drew The perfect path That has led Black people to liberation” Kombilesa mí- Los peinados Bordebalay, cornrows, hundidito, bantu...
Interview and reflections on a community fandango planting with Gemaly Padua
Gemaly Padua Uscanga’s visit left us with a song that tasted like a décima in our mouths, a purr of a tarima in our bodies, a mountain of memories full...
Here I am
A poem by Milvia Berenice Pacheco Salvatierra MÁS Excecutive Director Here I am This is me,My presencemy self defense. Here I am This is me,With an aching glance,With a...
After the absence…
By: Meyby Ugueto-Ponce, comadre, member of the committee of MÁS conversaciones para MÁS orgullo Yesterday, the show had fulfilled expectations, today was different, something else had happened. While she watched...
An interview with Otoqui Reyes, a bearer of Puerto Rican Bomba in Seattle
“When our hands connect with a DRUM that vibrates with our energy, vitality, emotion, euphoria, hope, sensitivity, surrender, sharing and unity, we become whole again.” Barry Bittman, MD Otoqui Reyes,...
My dad wants to learn how to do my hair
By: Meyby Ugueto. Insurgent braids collective Capuchinos subway station. A man with a black complexion and afro hair, chats with his partner, a woman with a white complexion and straight...
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