Thanksgiving leftovers

TALES OF TORRES 12.01.19 “THANKSGIVING LEFTOVERS”

LATINOPIA WORD – “TRUMP: MAKING AMERICA UNGREAT”

December 8, 2019 By Tia Tenopia

Dr. Alvaro Huerta is a professor of Urban and Regional Planning at California State Polytechnic University at Pomona. In his recent book, Defending Latina/o Migrant Communities in the Xenophobic Era of Trump and Beyond, he challenges hateful myths of the Latinos as rapists and criminals. Alvaro believes Trump has set our country back fifty years. […]

BURUNDANGA BORICUA DEL ZOCOTROCO 12.08.19 “INSPIRACIÓN”

December 8, 2019 By Tia Tenopia

Se mueve la vida de momento en momento. Hay algunos pocos de exaltación y entusiasmo, cuando todo toma velocidad y empuje, se exacerba la imaginación y se enciende la productividad. Algunos lo llaman “inspiración”, otros le dicen “musa”. Es una epifanía o descubrimientos que nos hace vibrar de entusiasmo. Suelen alternarse con esos tiempos de […]

ROMO DE TEJAS 12.08.19 “WHY THEY LEAVE: CENTRAL AMERICAN ACCOUNT”

December 8, 2019 By Tia Tenopia

Why They Leave: A Central American Account In the last decade more immigrants arrived at the U.S. borders from Mexico and Central America than from any other region of the world. The arrival of immigrants on our southern border has been the subject of numerous print and television stories, and the migration story has been […]

TALES OF TORRES 12.01.19 “THANKSGIVING LEFTOVERS”

December 1, 2019 By Tia Tenopia

Thanksgiving Day has come and gone, leaving lots of leftovers – both actual and metaphorical. Above the din of football game crowds emanating from the nonstop television in the next room, there were conversations. Conversations about family chisme (gossip), politics and the very issue of what Thanksgiving is really all about. Leftover conversations continue days […]

LATINOPIA WORD MÓNICA TERESA ORTÍZ “HUMAN RESOURCES”

By Tia Tenopia on February 16, 2014

Mónica Teresa Ortíz is a Texas poet representative of a new generation of Latina poets and authors. She is the author of the acclaimed chapbook collection “On a Greyhound Straight from the 915.” She read her poem about the exploitation of undocumented immigrant workers in the United States, “Human Resources,” on September 17, 2010 at […]

Category: LATINOPIA WORD, Literature

LATINOPIA WORD XOCHITL JULISA BERMEJO “OUR LADY OF THE WATER GALLONS”

By Tia Tenopia on May 26, 2013

Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo is a poet and teacher from Asuza, California. She volunteered with No More Deaths, a humanitarian organization providing water bottles in the Arizona desert where immigrants crossing from Mexico often die of exposure. She read her poem, “Our Lady of the Water Gallons” at a Mental Cocido (Mental Stew) gathering of Latino authors […]

Category: LATINOPIA WORD, Literature

LATINOPIA SHOWCASE “LOVE IN THE TIME OF ALBINO”

By Tia Tenopia on April 13, 2014

Gabriel Carmona and Branden Selman are the founders of Nac Film Theory, an independent film company based in Nagotchoches, Texas. Both of these talented filmmakers produce, direct, film, edit and act in their independently produced films. Latinopia is proud to showcase the poignant “Love in the Time of Albino,” another independent production by this talented […]

Category: Cinema/TV, LATINOPIA SHOWCASE