The flight back to Los Angeles was heavy. I’d been sleep deprived for a few days, not being able to get more than a couple hours of sleep each night. Not that I wasn’t trying; I’d been desperately trying to get some rest. But my mind had been on overdrive, and shutting those thoughts down [...]
The idea for this video came on the BART very late at night, on the way back to the East Bay from a night of debauchery and a gluttonous intake of tacos in the Mission district. Catherine (from ASPIRE) rode with Julio and me, and we chatted about painfully discomforted situations of our past. Catherine [...]
When I was in high school, I had a huge crush on a young lady who had bravely started the first LGTBQ support organization in our school (this was back in 1999-2000). She was smart, strong, beautiful, very compassionate, and she didn’t exactly identify as gay. I thought that I just might have a [...]
“Anchor Baby” Added to the New American Heritage Dictionary I don’t know what the executives and editors were thinking when they decided that it was appropriate to add this term into their dictionary, but the way that I see it, “Anchor Baby” isn’t a word. It’s a term used to shame and insult millions of [...]
I’ve been thinking of this notion of being a part of the 99% in this entire Occupation phenomenon that’s been spreading throughout our nation (and the rest of the world) since the Wall Street event began last month. When I see images and videos of the participants and I read the variety of philosophies and [...]
New York is a big place. Everyone knows that. So when I found myself shooting frames amid the October 5th Labor demonstration in the financial district of Manhattan, the best way I thought I could give context to who was there and what was happening was to use the widest lens I had. There was [...]
While surfing through the internet today, I came across a very intriguing piece/video from Touré on MSNBC (“Touré Calls Our Media 9/11 Nostalgia, Leaves Dylan Ratigan Speechless”), in which he confronts the mainstream media for commercializing the 9-11 tragedy. Were all those newspaper articles, photographs, and television coverage on the 10th anniversary of the worst [...]
*note: I came across this piece in my computer, originally written and published May 26th, 2010. I thought it was still entirely relevant, so here it is once more. I was reading an article detailing the experiences of some undocumented students after receiving their college degree (Undocumented Immigrants Struggle To Find Work After College), when [...]
*Note: This entry contains thoughts and opinions that belong solely to the writer. It is not a reflection of Dreamers Adrift as a contingent.* Not too long ago, I received a phone call from a very prominent and well-known DREAMer who wanted to ask me a “strange question”. I decided to indulge the caller. First [...]
“When I read hateful words towards the immigrant community, or any community, I can’t help but feel sad for my fellow human beings. I always wonder what life this person has led that would nurture in them such anger and resentment. It’s as if by merely existing, we’re robbing them of something; jobs, education, money [...]
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