A trusted mentor once said to me, “Amanda, every once and awhile you have to learn to be selfish.”When I first heard this, I was taken aback a little because I didn’t quite fully understand what...
Last Friday, photographs of black tenured professors at Harvard Law School were defaced, with strips of black tape placed across their faces.In the midst of numerous protests across the country, demanding...
Since the news broke about Friday’s attack in Paris, I have been searching for the words to articulate my many mixed emotions and overall, cognitive dissonance.I suppose there are no easy answers, only...
In a sea of flashing images that continuously force us to watch the brutalization of black and brown bodies, the calming quiet of Ken Gonzales Day’s 2015 work titled “Lynched,” only begins to become...
I know it’s tempting to dress up like La Calavera Catrina this weekend because it looks “cool” or is “spooky and edgy,” but I’m here to tell you to please close the tutorial on how to do “sugar...
Editor’s note: This is in response to Amanda Anastasia Paniagua's opinion piece titled "A rebuttal, toxic masculinity" published on Oct. 18, 2015.Dear Editor:First, permit me to send out mucho and macho...
