Reconnecting IndoLatine Mujerista|Artist|Writer|@EnConjuntoOrg Founder|AVS Consulting LLC Owner|@festivalDC Board Member
Dec 14, 2020 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
🧵 Folks would literally take a dedicated medical professional off the streets in the middle of a pandemic BEFORE they would allow themselves to be sex worker positive and not engage in misogyny.
Make it make sense!
#LaurenKwei
This woman, Lauren, knew she didn’t have the mental and physical bandwidth after a 40-hour work week as a medic to turn around and take on a second job (and as someone who could be a potential patient thank goodness for her self awareness).
Oct 29, 2020 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
🧵 I know a lot of us straight/cisgender folks are trying to find a way to respond to the #SCOTUS appointment by showing our support to our LGBTQ+ community members.
For some reason that is, overwhelmingly, coming out in the form of offers to officiate weddings.
I hear you and that's kind. Be there when the moment comes for those couples but let's figure out how to be there for all the other moments too. All the other rights and opportunities that are threatened.
Oct 28, 2020 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Today was my first of 4 days with NC State University faculty walking them through some healing practices (specifically mediation and grounding practices rooted in an anti-racist and community care framework).
I had a wonderful time and can’t wait until the next one. These experiences challenge me as I am still learning so much myself about the power and necessity of healing justice.
Here is an excerpt from the quote I shared with them:
Dec 4, 2019 • 15 tweets • 2 min read
Hispanic and Latinx are NOT the same thing.
Spanish and Latinx are NOT the same thing.
Chicanx and Latinx are NOT the same thing.
Hispanic means Spanish-speaking. Latinx and Chicanx people may not be Hispanic. Hispanic people may not be Latinx or Chicanx. it’s an outdated crap term that the U.S. government literally made up for the 1970 census because they needed a way to lump us altogether.