Dia-ar-te - DiA

Much love and respect for Diane Guerrero and all our immigrant brothers&sisters who have been separated from their families due to the broken and unjust immigration system in the U.S. 

On “Orange is the New Black,” Diane Guerrero’s character Maritza is a tough Latina who is separated from her young daughter while she does time. It’s a pretty moving storyline on its own, but Guerrero’s real life is just as captivating, if not more.

When she was 14 years old, she came home to an empty house. Dinner had been started, but there was no one home to finish it. Neighbors told her that immigration officers had taken her parents and older brother away.

Hear her tell the story in her emotional New Day interview.

Tatyana Fazlalizadeh’s: "Stop Telling Women To Smile"

This is the last picture I took with the Brooklyn Pikachu-Açaí Stars, the amazing group of youth I worked with in #Brasil! I still remember that moment when we had to take the picture and some of us couldn't stop crying and laughing at the same time. Missing the beautiful, amazing and dedicated Brooklyn Pikachu-Açaí Stars. You will ALL be forever in my heart. This experience was AMAZING and I recommend it to anyone interested in #coaching #English in #Brazil, trying something new, or stepping out of their #comforZone. I am so #thankful for this experience and now I'm #fundraising $500 for future fellows so they can embark on this experience next year. If you want to learn about my experience and/or make a small #donation please visit my fundraising website www.coloradogives.org/Di_Araujo. #USBC #CoachingEnglish #YouthWork #Educators #InternationalWork #LifeChangingExperience

Will be there! :) 

Listen January…we are so ready for you! Come dance the last month at our 558 Fulton location!

Gracias Pachamama.

Medicinal Plants Worthy of Your Garden Space

*every morning while applying eyeliner*

“Your job — as students who are receiving an education — is to be aware of your privilege. And use this particular privilege called “education” to do your best to achieve great things, all the while advocating for those in the rows behind you.”

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I don’t think that people generally realise what motion picture industry has done to the American Indian, as a matter of fact, all ethnic groups, all minorities, all non-whites. And people just simply don’t realise, just take it for granted that that’s the way people are going to be presented and these clichés are just, I mean on this network every night, well perhaps not every night, but you can see silly renditions of human behaviour, the leering Filipino houseboy, the wily Japanese, the kook or the gook, black man, stupid Indian. It just goes on and on and on. And people actually don’t realise how deeply people are injured by seeing themselves represented, not so much the adults, who are already inured to that kind of pain and pressure, but children. Indian children seeing Indians represented as savage, as ugly, as nasty, vicious, treacherous, drunken. They grow up only with a negative image of themselves and it lasts a lifetime. 

Entrevistador: ¡Usted es comunista!

Violeta Parra: ¡No para nada! ¿Quién le dijo eso? Mire, yo soy tan comunista que si me pegara un balazo me saldría la sangre roja.

Entrevistador: (risas) A mí también me saldría la sangre roja.

Violeta Parra: ¡Qué bueno compañero!