#chicanx

[artofsanctity]

I'm just coasting.

[ditchghost]

[chicanxarthistorian]

“El Niño” 36”x24” oil on canvas by Jake Prendez 2023

Photo reference by Gus Mejia

[kingkast]

[bebesota-and-bacha]

Mexican Princesscore Mood board

[izzy-el-lucerito]

Singing for our ancestors, so that they may find their way home.

[dr111ft]

found these tattoo designs from around last fall that I never posted

[mysticqueerdragon]

Clocking Colonialism

Step 1) see “reality”

They see us as still waters,

Stagnant

A breeding ground for infestation,

Unmoving

An incubator for death and disease

Unchanging

“No vitality here” they say

“No value to be found”

Step 2) see “future”

They see us as savages and monsters

stuck

in the shadows they cast

with ultramodern towers

stretched

touching the sky

Built with flesh

stacked bodies

hidden behind

concrete/ideology

Step ∞) see indigenous time

they told us we couldn’t grow here

but our true nature is growth

We are, life force flowing

In a circle it moves

Life and tradition and laughter

Energy and ceremony and triumph

our ancestors are in our being

We honor our dead

They live through us

New faces, same heart,

We adapt, we grow,

our survival is an energy

Connecting us through time and space

accumulation of revolution

We are ever moving,

In circle

New faces, same spirit

[dopestkelziitadoe]

@512kels | IG

[looktowardsthesky]

for the youth

https://www.instagram.com/moshnaked

[thisblackwitch]

Why is it so freaking hard to find Chicano and Afro-Chicano voice actors, particularly queer Chicano and Afro-Chicano voice actors, for audiobooks? Preferably from SoCal (never thought I'd see the day I can't find an actor in California.)

I legit have a paying job for them to do. An all BIPoC dark fantasy novel which is part of a series. In others words: returning work.

Does anyone know anyone? Am I just looking in the wrong places?

Because I am finding a payload of White guys who are way too happy to "play" Chicano/Afro-Chicano and I am not doing that. All my narrators are BIPoC (and women up to this point) because all my works are BIPoC. (Don't like it? Ask J. K. Rowling for a job, I'm not her.) And this upcoming work of mine needs a male narrator.

This is very frustrating.

[artofsanctity]

Don't look at me like that, papi.

[blackbirdsilhouette]

Ted Cruz and Greg Abbott would really hate it if you read my queer brown immigrant poems. You can get it at:

[kingkast]

My writing with a bold marker.

[amberlynngonzalespoetry]

I have a poem being published in an upcoming anthology which is a very cool and big deal for me!

Right to Life is a reclamation of a phrase that's often been welded against the same people who have to fight for the space to survive in our society.

It's being published by indie publishing company, Folkways Press. They have an Indiegogo campaign running until September 25th to help fund publishing.

This is hugely validating for me as a queer chicanx writer and I'm really passionate about this project. Please consider donating and sharing to support independent literature and marginalized voices!