“Your job — as students who are receiving an education — is to be aware of your privilege. And use this particular privilege called “education” to do your best to achieve great things, all the while advocating for those in the rows behind you.”
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Source: Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class At The Movies by bell hooks
Ya heard! All we need is Love. Beautiful reminder seen on 55thSt in the corazón of #SunsetPark
BNV14 Finals - Los Angeles “Somewhere in America”
I am visible— see this Indian face— yet I am invisible. I both blind them with my beak nose and am their blind spot. But I exist, we exist. They’d like to think I have melted in the pot. But I haven’t, we haven’t.
Gloria Anzaldua (via nestbuilding)
Truth seen at MCAD. By Jonathan Herrera: http://www.phabiocrafty.com
Love love love! Always Learning and growing alongside with the strong and caring sista Sonie. #sisterhood #partnersincrime (at Terraza 7)
So much love and respect for the Dream Team from Sunset Park High School. So fierce and wise. #sphsdreamteam #youthpower #Repost @sphsdreamteam ・・・ Join Dream Team! Wednesday at room 302! #youthpower #undocumentedunafraid #dreamteam
Stay positive and embrace the journey! A mal tiempo buena cara :) 1day in Panama. #CascoViejo #BrasilBound (at Casco Viejo) Sometimes it is best to surrender an embrace the moment for what it is. After missing my original flight to Panama, which would take me to Manaus to make a connection Porto Velho -- my final destination where I'd be doing some dope youth work with 15-18 year old girls and boys for one month! I lost another flight... the one from Panama to Manaus, this time. And tis time, the airlines was to blame. They did not validate my rights as dual citizen and did not allow me to travel to Brazil due to fear I might have been sent back. Way too risky for them. After divulging for a long time trying to make my voice count, the airline realized they had made a BIG mistake! They realized they'd made an error. They hooked me up with one of the Mariott hotels in Panama city, which really saved myself a lot of wandering around on my own. There were two great things about this experience, making my statement being heard and surrendering to the experience which allowed me to explore el Vasco Viejo of Panamá City for a couple of hours. I have been SO excited for so long, but things did not go as planned...
I am an indigenous-mestiza-afrodescendent trans-national Latina sister from the picturesque South American city of Guayaquil and brought up in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. I love and respect my journey in exploring my browness and my womanhood.
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