Saludos, mis amores. Acérquense y déjenme contarles la historia of how I became…Taylor Swift. On that fateful night of Friday, March 18, 2022, UCLA decisions were released while I was away for my final concert band review. So many seniors had been rejected that, out of fear of spoiling my beloved MORP, I waited until […]
El agosto pasado, viajé a Jalisco, México, y aprendí cómo se sienten unos mexicanos sobre la nueva presidenta de México, Claudia Sheinbaum. Con más de un mes hasta su inauguración el primero de octubre, las opiniones estaban mezcladas.. Visité algunos pueblos en México para entrevistar a personas de diferentes orígenes. Estos son sus sentimientos sobre […]
Saludos, amiguis. To know who you are is to know where you come from. However, over the centuries, Europeans have done so much to obscure the Indigenous presence on these continents, and now much of our oral and family histories have been hidden away from us. For Latines with at least some Indigenous ancestry, tracing […]
Greetings beloved readers, As Latines, we have an intricate history with labor. Our homelands were colonized on the premise that Indigenous people were not utilizing their lands properly. Some of our ancestors were brought to the Americas to provide manual labor for the colonizer. Many of our families came to the U.S. to provide […]
“That which we call a rose, by any other word would smell as sweet” – William Shakespeare I beg to differ. As an English major, I have read stories from plenty of writers from plenty of places. A big part of the English major here at UCLA is learning how culture and language shape one another. […]
This past August I had the opportunity to return to Jalisco, Mexico, after 20 months away. In those 20 months, I went through the last two quarters of freshman year, all of sophomore year with all its plot twists and theatrics, and a summer of preparing to become editor-in-chief. In their song “Florida!!!” Taylor Swift […]