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i was in new york for these past few days and, dayum,

what i'd give to have the kind of murals they have for our musicians.

what i'd give to have the mural for oscar & avelino (quite literally, it was right in front of the apartment building we were staying in).

what i'd give to have excellent urban planning.

what i'd give for respect to our culture.

WHAT I'D GIVE

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cool, yo no sabía de ellos. :o

Felipe Luciano, Young Lords Party co-founder and original member of The Last Poets.

Photo by Michael Abramson.

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soy yo o el pnp está lleno de escándalo esta semana?

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Ha fallecido esta mañana la profesora y académica Mara Negrón Marrero en París. Negrón Marrero, quien se distinguiera como defensora de los derechos de la mujer, falleció a los 51 años de edad de leucemia, con la que fuera diagnosticada hace tres semanas. En 2005 la profesora de literatura comparada de Río Piedras publicó su novela "Cartago" y en 2010 su selección de ensayos "De la animalidad no hay salida", con trazos de Kafka, Derrida y Cixous.

Periódico Digital Puertorriqueño La Nación

:((((((

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dear nuyoricans

the term cholo/chola should only be used by mexicans, argentinians, chileans, peruans, bolivians, and ecuadorians

we are not cholos/cholas. we have cholas (foreheads!).

~the more u know~

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San Juan, Puerto Rico

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Left: Farm laborer who also does odd carpentry jobs for people in his neighborhood, Caguas.

Right: FSA borrower participating in a sugar cooperative, Rio Piedras.

Taken in Puerto Rico, 1941. By Jack Delano.

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Above: People on the street.

Under: At roadside store.

Taken in Bayamon, Puerto Rico, 1941. By Jack Delano.

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SIGH

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to be quite honest, i'm sick of gringos talking about the problem of whiteness in hispanic cultures

when they have no idea about how it affects us and talking about us as if we're all white-identifying racist assholes

excuse u let's have some context and nuance here i'm so tired of peoples of hispanic descent being treated like a huge monolith

like pls

shut the fuck up omg you don't even know

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Víctor Rodríguez, coordinador del Frente Amplio de Camioneros, participó activamente en la Asamblea del PPD, y aseguró que no queda duda que dicho partido ganará los comicios generales de noviembre. Aprovechó para señalar que el Partido del Pueblo Trabajador es un "partido de homosexuales" y que este "es un pueblo cristiano que no cree en esas cosas".

este "es un pueblo cristiano que no cree en esas cosas" SACA

TU

MORALISMO RETROGRADO BASADO EN RELIGION

DE

MI POLITICA 

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Vejigante

Dato: Vejigante viene de la mezcla de la palabra Vejiga y Gigante. Se empezaron a ver en la Isla en época de festivales. Se usaban para asustar a la gente en los carnavales. Hoy son bien comunes en las fiestas de la Calle San Sebastian en el Viejo San Juan

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vejigantes en las fiestas de la calle de san sebastian :)

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IT DEFAULTS TO “O.”

PLEASE STOP TRYING TO MODIFY THE LANGUAGE OF ANOTHER CULTURE.

IT IS VERY, VERY OUT OF LINE.

LINGUAL GENDER =/= HUMAN GENDER; YOU’RE NOT BEING “PROGRESSIVE” BY TRYING TO MAKE LATIN-BRANCH LANGUAGES “GENDER-NEUTRAL.”

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omg now that it’s story time

we were doing a “get to know you” exercise in my journalism class last year and i was like “i’m from añasco, puerto rico!!” and this girl was like

WHAT PART OF MEXICO IS PUERTO RICO IN

and i was like um puerto rico is an island actually—

and she cut me off and she was like IS IT OFF THE COAST OF MEXICO

i was so upset like omgdfgf

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Afro-Latino exhibit at the Museum of Art of Caguas, Puerto Rico. For more details about these pictures and other exhibit pictures check out my album here.

If you are a blogger in Puerto Rico (or want to be) join us for Puerto Rico BloggerCon this August 18th. Upcoming details here.