#Latinx history

[newhistorybooks]

"In “We Want Better Education!”, James B. Barrera offers a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the educational, cultural, and political issues of the Chicano Movement in Texas, which remains one of the lesser-known social and political efforts of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. This movement became the political training ground for greater Chicano empowerment for students. By the 1970s, it was these students who helped to organize La Raza Unida Party in Texas."

[todaysdocument]

Dancers with the Asociacion de Musicos Latino Americanos perform at Fort Dix's Hispanic Heritage Committee Luncheon, 10/30/2002.

Series: Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files, 1982 - 2007

Record Group 330: Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1921 - 2008

Image description: Two women, dressed in bright dresses and dance shoes, perform on a dance floor. In the background are the flags of Latin American countries.

[inthemarginalized]

Sometimes, even if there was no useful advice to give, I saw that listening still helped.

 - Sonia Sotomayor (b. June 25, 1954) 

She is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving since August 2009. Sotomayor is the Court's 111th justice, its first Latinx justice, and its third female justice.

[anxietyfrappuccino]

spent a week listening and learning from different speakers about (latinx) black and brown history, it is the only way to learn history

[c-k-mack]

Flaming Hot on Disney Plus is both a feel good movie about overcoming adversity and a realistic portrayal of life in the southwest in the seventies and eighties for brown people

[candela888]

Some of the feminine spiritual apparitions in the folklore and legends of Latin America & the Caribbean

There are many types of female ghost. They are typically (but not always) dressed in a white or red dress or similar garment, reportedly seen in rural areas and associated with local legends of tragedy. Legends are found in many countries around the world. Common to many of these legends is an accidental death, murder, or suicide, and the theme of loss, betrayed by a husband or fiancé, and unrequited love. Many of these entities are also said to appear near water, like the Sirens of Greece or the washerwomen of the Celtic people.

[granvarones]

Today, we honor and celebrate the life and legacy of Hydeia Broadbent, a beacon of hope, courage, and relentless advocacy in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Hydeia was a warrior whose spirit and determination transformed the landscape of awareness and compassion for those of us living with HIV/AIDS.

From a very young age, Hydeia stood in the glaring spotlight of public attention, not for fame or recognition, but to challenge the stigma and misconceptions surrounding HIV/AIDS. Diagnosed with HIV at three years old, Hydeia was not expected to survive past age five. In 1987, almost a decade before the introduction of effective HIV treatment, this prognosis was pretty accurate for children battling opportunistic infections brought on by HIV.

Hydeia’s mother immediately became a fierce advocate and enrolled Hydeia in clinical trials to prolong her life. It was an extraordinary win during a time when HIV clinical trials did not include women, young people, and people of color.

A chance meeting with the late HIV advocate Elizabeth Glaser in 1988 at the National Institute of Health, where they were both receiving treatment, led to Hydeia becoming a public speaker. After telling her story worldwide, including on a TV special for Nickelodeon with Magic Johnson, 20/20, Good Morning America, and becoming one of the most memorable guests of the Oprah Winfrey Show, Hydeia had become the face of not just pediatric aids but the first generation of children born with HIV.

Hydeia’s powerful and unwavering voice broke through barriers of fear and ignorance. She spoke at schools, appeared on national television, and collaborated with organizations worldwide, sharing her story to educate others about the reality of living with HIV/AIDS. Her message was clear: HIV/AIDS does not define a person, and everyone deserves love, respect, and compassion.

Hydeia changed this world! She helped shape how we advocate for young people and Black women living with HIV. She changed hearts and minds, pushing society towards greater acceptance and understanding. She inspired countless individuals to get tested, to speak openly about their status, and to fight against the stigma that continues to surround HIV/AIDS.

As we remember Hydeia Broadbent today, let us honor her memory by continuing her work. Let us be advocates for change and champions for accessible treatment for all people living with HIV, especially young Black women. Hydeia’s fight is our fight, and in her memory, we pledge to keep the flame of her legacy burning bright.

Hydeia, rest in peace. Your legacy, a tapestry woven with threads of hope, love, resilience, and unyielding commitment to all people living with HIV, will continue to guide us until there is a cure.

Hydeia Broadbent

June 14, 1984 – February 20, 2024

[rjalker]

People have no actual fucking argument outside of blatant bigotry for why they're claiming latinx is bad once you debunk the racist claim that it was created by white people ~to ruin Spanish~ so they'll just start pretending that no one has a problem with male-default, or just say "Well I personally don't identify with it, so that means it shouldn't exist"

So you're gonna erase all the people who do? You're gonna erase the Queer, feminist, and cultural identity of the very people who created it? You're gonna be racist as fucking hell and retroactively whitewash them so you can erase the Queer and feminist history you don't like?

"latinx literally isn't pronounceable" funny, because that's literally not how words work. It is in fucking fact pronounceable. You just don't like how it's pronounced. The people who created it created it for a reason and chose its pronounciation and spelling for a reason.

You do not get to fucking erase and whitewash Queer and feminist history just because you don't like it. That's the definition of being a fucking bigot.

[diaryofaphilosopher]

Along the way we have even lost the right to call ourselves Americans, although the Haitians and the Cubans appeared in history as new people a century before the Mayflower pilgrims settled on the Plymouth coast. For the world today, America is just the United States; the region we inhabit is a sub-America, a second-class America of nebulous identity.

— Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent.

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[fangledeities]

Jennifer Lopez (born 1969, USA), 2024

Old Woman Tearing Her Hair, after 1553. Circle of Quentin Massys (Dutch, 1466-1530). Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain.

Background: The Tempest, 1507-1508. Georgioni (Giorgio da Castelfranco), Italian, 1478-circa 1509. Veneto Castelfranco, Venice, Italy.

#fangledeities

[qbdatabase]

If You Liked ... It Came from the Closet Check out these five titles to try next! We're kicking off the new year by looking back to the past with queer analysis of movies, tv shows, music, video games, and the turn of the millennium 💿📼📹

[newhistorybooks]

"A long-overdue in-depth look at one of the preeminent Mexican Americans in nineteenth-century California, Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo also provides an unprecedented view of the Mexican American experience during that transformative era."

[todaysdocument]

Draft of letter from the Dept. of Labor to the Imperial Valley Farmers Association, 12/18/1962. 

The Bracero Program recruited Mexican men to work as farm laborers in the U.S. Wages were higher than in Mexico, but braceros faced exploitation and abuse.

Record Group 174: General Records of the Department of Labor

Series: Records Relating to the Mexican Labor ("Bracero") Program

File Unit: R.T. Englund Co. (El Centro) Elizabeth A. Longebohn charges

Transcription:

Imperial Valley Farmers Association

P.O. Box 616

El Centro, California

and

Mr. R. T. Englund and

Mrs. R.T "Constance" Englund,

individually and doing business as

The R.T. Englund Company

P.O. Box 517

Salinas, California

Gentlemen:

Pursuant to paragraph a) (4) of Article 30 of the Migrant Labor Agreement of 1951, as amended, a statement of alleged violations was transmitted to you under date of October 11, 1962 alleging, among other violations of the Agreement and the Standard Work Contract, there was a violation of Article 19 of the Standard Work Contract through the maintenance of inaccurate and inadequate records of employment of Mexican Nationals in lettuce harvest activity in that such records showed in at least seventeen instances a greater number of hours worked than is in fact were worked by such Mexican National workers. The response of the R.T Englund Company, transmitted on November 29, 1962 by George C. Lyon of the law firm of Moss, Lyon and Dunn, attempts to explain the seventeen instances of alleged discrepancies between the time of arrival of the last loaded lettuce truck at the cooler and the indicated final employment of the crew in the field by the practice of your company in utilizing the crew after the lettuce was picked in picking up leaves from furrows and placing them on top of the lettuce bed, The affidavit of R.T. Englund submitted with your response includes sworn testimony that such picking up of leaves takes anywhere from fifteen minutes on up to three hours."

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The response of the company with respect to the picking up of leaves as an explanation of the field slips covering the employment of Mexican National workers in the lettuce harvest requires a consideration of whether or not this alleged activity may itself constitute a violation of Article 4 of the Standard Work Contract and Article 19 of the Migrant Labor Agreement is that such activity may have been performed without any compensation being provided therefor. The existing Article 30 proceeding initiated through the Article 30 a) (4) letter of October 11, 1962, described above, is therefore suspended until a response is given by you to the allegations of indicated violations concerning the picking up of leaves following completion of the loading activity in the field. Your response should be directed to the following specific points:

1. Describe with particularity the different occasions when leaf picking activity occurred after the final loaded truck left the field for the cooler. Specify the particular dates when this activity occurred.

2. Particularize as to the amount of time required for the leaf-picking activity on each of the days when the activity occurred.

3. Identify the number of members of the crew engaged in this activity, with particular explanation of whether such activity was performed by Mexican National workers only or both Mexican National workers and domestic workers comprising Crew No. 1.

4. Give further explanation as to the specific authorization of the leaf-picking activity under the DE-3401 authorization issued by the California Department of Employment local offices at El Centro, California.

The evidence now available to me indicates that the leaf-picking activity,

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when performed after the final packing and loading activities of the crew have been performed for the day, is not considered as a part of the lettuce harvest authorized activity included in the lettuce ground harvest activity described in the Form ES-366 as "lettuce, cut, trim, pack, spread cartons, spray, pad, close, carry and windrow" or "lettuce, load, stack." The requirement that such work be performed by the harvest crew, with the compensation therefor to be included within the piece rate of twenty-four cents per carton for the authorized lettuce harvest activity, would therefore constitute a violation of Article 4 of the Standard Work Contract and Article 10 of the Migrant Labor Agreement.

You have ten days from the data of receipt of this supplemental notice to respond to the allegation set forth in this letter,. Please direct your response to the undersigned.

Sincerely yours,

John Murray

Representative of the Secretary of Labor

[miawashere]

oppression of lgbtq+

mexicos first openly lgbtq+ magistrate, Jesús Ociel Baena Saucedo and partner were shot, and authorities suspect anti-lgbtq+ forces committed this despicable act. The fact that Saucedo was the first openly non-binary magistrate of mexico and was shot shows how closed off the minds are of many people living in mexico, and how unfair it is to kill someone based off who they are, even if innocent. to jill someone because you don’t like that they’re apart of the lgbtq only leads to more oppression and injustice they face regularly, and if more people are harmed simply for being themselves it couldn’t potentially lead to a world where people are afraid to come out and be their true selves, just to protect their safety. how cruel, and i pray Jesús Ociel Baena Saucedo and Sauceados partner get the justice they deserve.

[caelstyx]

The Princess & The Historian

Some old character design stuff from an abandoned science-fantasy webcomic I worked on in 2021

The Princess comes from a Central American inspired world and the Historian is Chinese.

I bit off more than I could chew in terms of world-building, but I want to get back to this world one day and push more specific design and pattern work.

[atna2-34-75]

Tarsila do Amaral

Abaporu, 1928

MALBA, Buenos Aires