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I make beautiful things for your home....support local artisans!!!!
This is my favorite design that I make in my mirrors, who loves papayas? I love papayas! mmmm....
i love islands, drinking havana club warm, reading theory on museum practices, casta paintings, making mixed tapes for friends, being counted on to start a dance party...
El Zapateado (1847) painted by Frederic Niahle
you at my upcoming events:
Anything Timba/cubano, rumba, Munequitos de Matanzas, Yerbabuena, Mos Def, Los Van Van, The Roots, Los Tigres del Norte, Goapelle, Orishas, Mercedes Sosa, Damian Marley Jr., New Order, Boca Floja, Sean Paul, Stevie Wonder, Chingo Bling, Flaco Jimenez, Fela Kuti, Pigeon John, Sergio Mendes, Lisa Lisa and the Cult Jam, Steve Spacek, Sidestepper, 2Mex, and the rest.
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ESTEBAN JORDAN AT SALUTE IN SAN ANTO
Danzon- romantic, complex female characters, there's dance and Veracruz is one of my favorite states in Mexico.
Senorita Extraviada- Lourdes Portillos incredibleeeee important documentary on the murders of hundreds of women in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico- occuring since 1993.
Brown Sugar- my guilty pleasure, sweet love story and everybody looks pretty doing exactly what they like.
9-11 ... a collection of 9 films from all over the world 11 minutes long each, all reflecting on 9-11 from their own country's culture's perspectives
Jesus Camp, The Battle of Algiers..Sin Dejar Huella (Without a Trace- Maria Navarro), All about my Mother, La FabriK- documentary on Cuban Hip Hop group, Speeder Kills- Jimmy Mendiola's masterpiece based in my hometown, San Anto... Freestyle the Art of Rhyme, Cubamor, The Namesake.
ugly betty, super nanny, wife swap, dancing with the stars, the bbc world news. project runway, that oc housewife show and yo gabba gabba (when i'm near cable). wii tennis.
Okay, lately these are the books I read: Natural Pregnancy, What to Expect When You're Expecting, The Baby Book, Mothering Magazine, you get the idea. The Decolonial Imaginary, Borderlands la Frontera, All about love, Orientalism, MeXicana Encounters, Every Night Life, Staying Alive, AIDS Demographic, Melancholia and Moralism, Conversation Pieces, The Predicament of Culture, Aztlan journal ..Mothering Magazine...NACLA...Color Lines...the Boondocks, my horoscope. Aya...
WOMEN, JUAREZ ACTIVISTS, MOTHERS OF THE DISAPPEARED, CHICANO/A BOOKSTORE OWNERS, STREET VENDORS, KARLOS WITH A K