Bloody Half-Birth & An Afternoon Reparenting On An Empty Playground
This freedom used to elude me, /
but now, a smile untangles /
Category: Issue 7
Here’s to La Familia, Fuego Dancers, & Hacia la Luz
Here’s to the Chicanos /
The Mexicanos /
Our Indigenous ancestors /
Memories of a Mexican Boy from El Paso: So You Want to Be a Pharmacist
Many young Chicanos were actively protesting what was happening to Mexicans in the Southwest and California, and I began to learn more about my Mexican heritage.
Yá hmi ma ‘yu̲*
At times, only sometimes /
in the brightness of the moon /
the eyes of the leaves /
signal the course of things /
Elegía por mi español & Rasquache, Defined & Declared
Rasquachismo is us, and we are rasquachismo. /
An Intergenerational Journey Through Food Insecurity*
Lately, food is a line-item ballooning and squeezing itself between the gaps of the other rising expenses even when my husband has regular work.
