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I say we take Korean slang word 콜 (kol, “okay, cool”) and mash it up with the synonymous Mexican slang word “órale” to make 콜아래 (kórale). #hanmegsiko Then we take

When a new ruler was chosen, the Aztecs would address them. "It is you. You will take up the burden, you will lift the bundle, you will shoulder the carrying

I’ll let you in on a secret. I have a doctorate in education, but the field’s basically just a 100 years old. We don’t really know what we’re doing. Our

To continue my discussion of the harmful & pseudoscientific nature of broad swaths of modern US education, I want to bring in my work as a literary dignity activist (Google

Okay. I've gotten many new followers (lots who engage in #edchat) and I promised to follow up my "education as pseudoscience" thread with responses to educators who push back, saying

I'm pretty sure not enough intellectuals living in Mexico have read Gloría Anzaldúa, and it shows.Algo me dice que no se lee mucho a Gloría Anzaldúa en México. Una lástima...

It's been a while since my last major etymological thread, but I was eating some great spicy food yesterday and decided it was time for ....Mexican X, Part XVIIHot Xalapeños!

1) Queer Latinx folks invented the word "Latinx," not white people.2) The majority's opinion isn't automatically RIGHT or JUST. 20 years ago, most Latinx folks opposed marriage equality for LGBTQ

I learned to be anti-racist at a young age.When I was 4, we moved from South Texas to South Carolina. That's where my brother Fernando was born, Myrtle Beach. He's

"Why do people keep writing 'Latinx'? And yikes, how do you pronounce it?" Alright, deep breath. It's the 10th & final edition of my Mexican X series for 2018 (&

Nearly anywhere you go, a certain combination of trumpets & violins will elicit a similar response: listeners will immediately think of Mexico, feeling an urge to throw a hat onto

White people:If you feel the urge to show that you're not just "going along mindlessly" with all the "PC diversity stuff" (or however your "edgy" little brain formulates this vapid