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Winter 2025 Editor’s Note: Our Calloused Hands
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 […]
A rose by any other name is not just as sweet, and I will tell you why Shakespeare is so wrong.
“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. […]
Puerto Vallarta, August 2024 – Part I
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 […]
I Am Losing Myself
This piece was created on February 24, 2023. Simply put, I like drawing faces. I love the intricacies of the face. They make drawing faces fun. However, drawing yet another face is repetitive and boring, so I changed it a little bit. On a deeper level, I drew this during Winter 2023. It was my […]
Watching the Light Go Out
I sketched the above piece with pen on a sticky note while sitting at my desk in my dorm on the eighth floor of Dykstra Hall sometime during Winter 2024. I was doing homework, but I was struck with an idea. I didn’t have enough time to make a full sketch, so I just took […]
No More Colonial Borders
This piece is inspired by non-Native efforts to maintain a border on lands that are not theirs. Movement across Turtle Island has been occurring since before the Europeans arrived. Although people in support of fortifying the border focus on Latine immigrants, these efforts also harm tribes whose land the border cuts through. These tribes include […]
Cena Con Colegas
Greetings a todos ustedes. Mil abrazos. Esta es la historia riquísima de una cena tan deliciosa que explotaría Gordon Ramsay. On Wednesday, April 26, 2023, UCLA’s Chicanx/Latinx Living Learning Community (LLC) presented its first-ever Cena con Colegas. Per the official flier advertising the event, the purpose of the dinner was for students to “network with […]
Take Me to the Ghetto
To My Home in the Desert, Take me back into your embrace. Save me from this urban catastrophe. Forgive me for the years I spent plotting to escape your quiet nights of coyote howls and croaks of frog. I’m coming back just for the weekend, but you can keep me longer if you will. Stash […]