Texas naysayers who found the Edgar troubling tried outlawing it. At an El Paso high school in 2021, these activists circulated a petition calling for the prohibition of “Edgar Cuts,” … Read more
LA Times | August 10, 2023
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Tropics of Meta | April 3, 2023
Pendeja, You Ain’t Steinbeck
“The first time Jeanine and I ever talked on the phone,” the publisher gushed, “she said migrants at the Mexican border were being portrayed as a ‘faceless brown mass.’ She … Read more
LA Taco | January 6, 2023
Why Catholics Almost Choke On Baby Jesus Each Year on Día de Los Reyes
During my Catholic childhood, I took the religion’s cannibalistic metaphors seriously. I believed what the bewhiskered monjitas taught me in catechism class, that my classmates and I were being prepared to receive the body and blood of a long-haired man born in a manger.
On the day that I first received the Eucharist… It tasted like cereal, not at all meaty as I’d imagined it would.
Tasteful Rude | November 11, 2021
Honoring Our Literary Ancestors: On Arcelia
In the days leading up to my grandmother’s death, my eyes lingered on her ninety-year-old hands. As a little tomboy, Arcelia’s hands had mesmerized me. I watched them feed cookies … Read more
Nat. Catholic Reporter | November 1, 2021
Death Becomes Us
My mother was raised near the second-oldest cemetery in Guadalajara, Panteón de Mezquitán. Established in 1896, murals cover the high walls surrounding its terrain. Some of these artworks feature incarnations of Death herself, and, depending on the weather, one can find Mezquitán’s graveyard dogs sunbathing, hiding from the rain or scratching mosquito bites. During my grandmother Arcelia’s funeral procession, a yellow canine appeared beside her coffin. My mother nudged me.
“It’s your grandfather,” she whispered. “He’s accompanying my mother.”
Tasteful Rude | December 31, 2020
Hilaria Baldwin & the Perverse Myth of Reverse Body-Shaming
The internet recently busted yoga instructor Hilary Baldwin for moonlighting as a Thpanish immigrant and upon learning that “Hilaria” wasn’t born in Mallorca but instead in Massachusetts, I decided to … Read more
Tasteful Rude | December 11, 2020
Introducing Tasteful Rude
Today I launch my new website Tasteful Rude, as part of the Brickhouse Cooperative, a group of journalists . I’m the editor-in-chief, and one of the writers. Tasteful Rude’s editorial … Read more
Remezcla | October 5, 2020
How the Term ‘Essential Worker’ Obscures the Cost of Racialized Human Life
“The Latino community is suffering a lot right now,” says Arnulfo Romero. The former field supervisor lives in Santa Maria, California, an agricultural community that, depending on which way its … Read more