It's Hispanic Heritage Month and this week's recommendations are rooted in the Latin community. This is especially important to me, because just last week, a nurse/whistleblower named Dawn Wooten reported that brown asylum seekers in ICE detention centers were receiving illegal hysterectomies. This news came a couple of months after another whistleblower reported that children in immigration detention were being…

Typically before each listing, I wax poetic about one thing or another. This week, I don't want to wax poetic about anything. I'm more interested in letting the words be the words. I have been giving thanks a lot lately for having the language to describe my experience of the world. What has become clear to me is that when…

Lately, I've been seeing a lot of posts on social media with the sentiment, "This is the ghetto and I hate it here." It's often referring to the current state of affairs with the COVID-19 pandemic, Black Lives Matter Movement, uncertainty about school starting, the upcoming election-- you get the point. There is a lot to be angsty about, but…