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Amor Cubano

in a bottle, a tube and a small packet

About Me

Amor Cubano
In a bottle, a tube and a small packet
Get yours now!!
Ever wanted to help change the world but you just didn't know how?
Here's your chance to get the help that you need but you must act now!
Barbarita Perales the inventor of Amor Cubano in a bottle, a tube and a small packet has found an effective way to share with the people of the United States of America something that they have always been longing for: the ability to be the greatest lovers in the world. Better known as Amor Cubano.
If you are Cuban, you know. If you have ever been with a Cuban, you know. That Cubans are the greatest lovers in the world. ¡Si!! ¡¿Cómo no?! Por supuesto. Because Cubans are such generous people and we believe in sharing we have gone through the process of extracting some Amor Cubano to share it with the rest of the world. Find out what Amor Cubano can do to you in the hilarious political comedy by Maceo Cabrera Estevez.
What people say about Barbarita Perales:
"The sexiest humanitarian alive!"- U.N. official that shall not be named.
"Barbarita Perales has changed my life through Amor Cubano. She has shown me my ways. No longer do I think I am Cuban because I listen to Buena Vista Social Club. I know who I am and I want to make this world a better place. Thank you Barbarita for sharing." -white girl from Iowa
Maceo Cabrera Estévez
I have dedicated my life to words. On paper, on stage. I am a writer of creative non fiction and for performance. I am also a nanny, an apt manager and a really good friend. Moving to a place that has palm trees I have realized that my feet need to be in the earth more often. Connections were lost when my big sneakers hit concrete pavement. I am from people of the land. Horse people. Farmers. Sugar cane cutters. I come from people that make you laugh, that see things, that are in touch with the earth, the sky, the water. We are clairvoyants, we are espiritistas, we are santeros y santeras, we are revolucionarias y revolucionarios. From El Congo, Las Islas Canarias, Galicia, Victoria de las tunas, Brooklyn y Miami. I live stories and I tell them.
Maceo Cabrera Estévez, has a long list of identities including being queer, mixed race Cuban and a solid gold dancer. Ok the last part is only in her living room. She hails from Brooklyn, NY and now lives in Oakland. Maceo is a performance artist, comedian, writer and nanny. She has performed her work in various venues in NYC and the Bay Area such as the Asian American Writers Workshop, Dixon Place, La Galeria de La Raza, La Peña, The Knitting Factory, The Nuyorican Poets Cafe and the National Queer Arts Festival. Her writing has been published in Sojourner: The Women Forum, Riffrag Journal and she edited the Ana Castro: A Radical People of Color Zine. Maceo's work focuses on revolutionary Cuban love, the politics of being brown and uniting all struggles globally.
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My Interests

cooking, writing, making mix cds, dancing, poc queer trans folx, dealing with internalized stuff, reading, performance, laughing, espiritismo, solidarity, art, films, going to see shows, revolution and always, always, always-cuba.

I'd like to meet:

Lefty Cubans

Folx that love to dance and talk politics but maybe not at the same time.

Radical and progressive artists that want to collaborate.

People with open hearts.

Music:

timba, carlos vives, los van van, la charanga habanera, old school hip hop, jill scott, prince, old school michael jackson, ely guerra, si*se, los amigos invisibles, ray barretto, julieta venegas sade, cubanito 2002, reggaeton, stevie wonder, afro beat, orishas, dj bobbito, heavy d and the boyz, fania all stars, bebe, antibalas, fela kuti, ozomatli, beny more, polo montanez, leela james

Movies:

city of god, el tropical, le belle epoque, real women have curves, amelie, flashdance, whale rider, rabbit proof fence, undercover brother, life and debt, block party, ma vie en rose, 13 going on 30, monsieur ibrahim, richard pryor live on sunset strip

Television:

¿Qué Pasa, USA?, Ugly Betty

Books:

white teeth by zadie smith, amor en el tiempo de colera by gabriel garcia marquez, amor prozac curiosidad y dudas by lucia extrebarria, the house on mango street by sandra cisneros, open veins of latin america by eduardo galeano, all about love by bell hooks, che's diaries, sonia sanchez, nikki giovanni, altar of my soul by marta moreno vega,en el tiempo de las mariposas by julia alvarez, consensual genocide by leah lakshmi piepzna-samarasinha, martin espada and nicolas guillen poems, poc marxist books

Heroes:

my papi, progressive/radical public school teachers, hamal patel, my niece-yisi, survivors, my tia rosa

My Blog

blessings

It is times like these that I see my blessings.  I work and go to school.  My only day off is Tuesday that is filled with catching up with sleep and errands.  By Sunday night my body is...
Posted by Amor Cubano on Tue, 22 May 2007 06:01:00 PST

bedtime yogi tea

Leah tells me that if I wanted she would call me every night before bedtime to give me some words of encouragement and inspiration.  She tells me that I don't have to spend anymore money buying Y...
Posted by Amor Cubano on Fri, 11 May 2007 11:09:00 PST

jasmine filled walks

Querido Armandito, I still write you stories in my head.  I write you long elaborate emails about smelling jasmines as I walk down the hill towards Lakeshore.  I tell you about the cool bre...
Posted by Amor Cubano on Tue, 08 May 2007 08:11:00 PST

en Miami

It was interesting to be in Miami before going to Cuba.  Only in Miami can you get cortaditos y pasteles de guayaba at the airport.  It was nice to get off the plane and not speak a word of ...
Posted by Amor Cubano on Tue, 01 May 2007 08:44:00 PST

ya regrese

It was at the McArthur Bart Station this morning that I realized I was no longer in Cuba.  Cars zooming by in more than one lane would never happen in the little town of Las Tunas.  Old Amer...
Posted by Amor Cubano on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:07:00 PST

thoughts days before my trip

I wish words would flow out of me.  Tomorrow I leave to Miami.  Sunday morning I will have breakfast with my papi.  I will see family I want to see and some I don't really want to see.&...
Posted by Amor Cubano on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:59:00 PST

en paz

When you come from a family of clairvoyants you are always waiting for a premonition, a sign.  You feel a touch on your neck when no one is behind you.  Your dreams are stories of things tha...
Posted by Amor Cubano on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 06:08:00 PST

when in cuba

when in Cuba I am blanca.  I am first world.  I am American.  I am blue jeans.  I am of streets paved in gold.I am not of color.  I am not mixed.I am pretty, I am white. ...
Posted by Amor Cubano on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:52:00 PST

a letter to Armandito

Querido Arman,I like to write to you in the morning.  I like how the sun shines through my apartment hitting the back of my neck as I type words to you.  I like to write you stories and pret...
Posted by Amor Cubano on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 09:29:00 PST

Mamita mi gatica

Chuwie and Loki come through my firescape window to visit.  Sometimes they lie in bed with me.  I snore, they purr.  It is nice to have two cats visit in a house that has no cats. ...
Posted by Amor Cubano on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 10:46:00 PST