LATINOPIA EVENT 1966 UFW PEREGRINACIÓN (PILGRIMAGE) MARCH 
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MOTHER DAY REDUX. “All aboard!” The van was running and ready to leave for the Mother’s Day picnic. The other zombies quartered at the secret Joshua Tree military training camp who were going to meet with their families had already boarded the van. It was just me and Pearl standing by the open door to [...]
CONJUNTO, CONJUNTO, CONJUNTO! Hey Dudes and Dudas, welcome to another week of loquacious, ‘luminating, lavish, laudable, literate, luscious and legendary Latinopia.com! Your Tia Tenopia is here with a celebration of CONJUNTO! Yes, this last weekend was the weekend of the San Antonio Conjunto Festival, commandeered, engineered, maestroed and driven by Juan Tejeda – one of [...]
HOW MANY GENERATIONS UNTIL LATINOS BECOME “AMERICAN?” I consider myself Latina, close even to my family’s Mexican culture, bilingual and happily comfortable in that identity. But, more often than not, it seems like everyone else is trying to corral me into some other identity, or telling me that mine is not sufficient. The neighborhood where [...]
