it was the truest thing to say a sisterhood born of struggling and dreaming and trainingit was the truest thing to say this becoming one body one heart one mind one spirit running and whirling and wheeling aboutit was the truest thing to say that it was a gift from the earth a gift that lived on morethan one land a gift that crossed and recrossed and uncrossed and unmade bordersit was the truest thing to say that we hadbeen made riding sisters that we were growing up together like a family that kept branching and branching that our children were beingraised together mothered by aunts and horsesit was the truest thing to say that there are things in life that can’t be renounced because renouncing them is to surrender who we are and surrendering has never been an option this is life this is lifethis is our truest life
Hey OP I saw your bait thread on Toni Morrison went nowhere, better luck this time!
>Much of Lara Silva’s writing centers around the beauty and pain of the Latinx experience, and she was drawn to the sense of strength that cuicacalli connotes. For most of her life, the story she was taught about her own culture cast Mexicans in the roles of villains or victims, and she wanted to flip the script. >“I want to imagine our community beyond that pain,” she says. “I’ve been meditating on our history for 25 years now, and our survival is a thing of beauty—it shows a strength that should be admired.”
>>24947728bell hooks ahh name
>>24947728>ire'ne lara silvaThe funny thing about a latinx like her who see the world as oppressed/oppressor is they are free to move back across the southern border with their American passport. It's not like being black or native where there is nothing to go back to.
