Poet Julia Alvarez writes that she is more of whom she is when she expresses herself on paper. And with that, I can relate. Seemingly, life is practice and motivation for my work of writing, where I effectively express the real me. And I owe my creative influence to the story of my Abuelito, whose […]
*Editor’s Note: Compiled by MEChA de UCLA’s Labor and Community Component and S.C.A.L.E. at UCLA WHAT IS MAY DAY? Since 1886, May Day is recognized as International Worker’s Day and celebrated throughout the world to commemorate the struggle for economic, social, and labor achievements such as the eight-hour day, and in the past years has […]
On Junot Díaz’s This Is How You Lose Her “Instead of lowering your head and coping it like a man, you pick up the journal as one might hold a baby’s beshatted diaper, as one might pinch a recently benutted condom. . . . Baby, you say, baby, this is part of my novel. This […]