Spanish and Xicanismo
Spanish has always been a problem in Aztlán. Though am second guessing this problem is slowly turning a leaf in the collective concious in as much as Native Americans are more and more preferring to be addressed as that or have that as part of their…
Read MoreLuther in Me
My awareness One moment to another Measured by the morning sun Finished by the nightly stars Skirrs like the wind that fills my lungs I sense no motion Only conmotion I dread the passing of the hours Making me feel pointless as I awake and it’s 7…
Read Moret-90:sd at 2am
crunching metal twisting engine sounds that promise clear blue skies on a loft out there.
Read MoreSwing’in it by
The clouds were in a hurry today. They moved like on a call. Giving out a radiant white look, they were cumulus on a majestic trek. I saw the wind too shake the electric wires hanging midair between the sky and the ground. A green covered landscape…
Read MoreThat one dawn
That night spelled out so many things, like a petate strewn on the floor. My brain lay idle awaiting answers. I couldn’t figure A from Z to be frank, and I was. Frank’s the name. I was born in Aztlan. And the rays of the dawn broke not only my…
Read MoreBarrio Warriors
I haven’t the slightest idea who came up with such a catchy name but let me tell you, it ain’t good. It is supposed to resonate in the mind of the gringo and it probably will. I can imagine some republican speech writer coming up with it in…
Read MoreAztlán es Tijuana también
Curiosamente Aztlán les causa pavor a ciertos mexicanofilos, más la idea de que Aztlán es Tijuana también. La idea se a manifestado en varias ocasiones y los que suelen expresar estas ideas de Aztlán o son crecidos en Tijuana de muy escuincles o son ya…
Read MoreXicanos as latinos
Whether Xicanismo likes it or not there is a latino force outhere to be reckoned with and it must embrace it. I say this because I have just been listening to Pepito for the past two days, an SF based band with ties to my birth city of Tijuana and a lad…
Read MoreWhen strange looks meet
Despite my seven long years in Sweden am still surprised to find myself smiling and waving at people I don’t know. This oft more than not causes me to loose my morning cheeriness and wipes my Xicano smile of my face and a small Homer Simpson rebuke,…
Read MoreIt rains in the plains of Sweden
Well I can officially kiss the suntan I adquiered during my sojourn in México adios. Its been raining cats and dogs in Sweden for 6 weeks in a row now and that means I will probably miss not only the summer the rest of the planet is probably indulging…
Read MoreWhen thoughts dawn upon one
Remember my post unscathed and alive whereby i related a blogsphere incident regards Tijuana identity? What i failed to take into account and just dawned upon me to tell my Xicana/o readership (is one allowed to use indiscriminately the suffix –ship…
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