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About Me

I've been in Denver for about a year and a half; i live with mi flaco and our kiddo, she's the cutey in all the fotos! I go through life exhausted, yet satisfied and even when i wish life was different, i wish it to stay the same. I work with some wonderful people around reproductive justice and have some fabulous friends who challenge my identity and paradigm(s). I strive to live an anti-oppression lifestyle and do my best based on where i am at this moment. I believe forgiving is important and i try to be a better person today than i was yesterday. I try to stay involved in mi comunidad as much as possible and am always persuading people to move to Denver! I am in touch with Miktlan and dream every single night about everything.
Currently, i'm planning my move to a new spot, my house is full of boxes everywhere ;o) I put up my favorite song from the new Immortal Tech CD, some parts are a bit..eh. but i like the overall message...so that's why it's up...ay aver cuando lo cambio
I always leave the karoake thing up...can someone take me goddamnit. I'd like to sing some Gloria Trevi, the Four Non Blondes, Bonnie Taylor, Janis Joplin, Mary J. Blige, Eryka Badu, Lauryn Hill, Joan Jett and/or the Bob. Any takers?
Some little dichos to live by
"I'm hear to: laugh, love, fuck and drink liquor; and make the damn revolution come quicker.... twenty years later I'm still not sleepin, if I'm not involved I feel I ain't breathin', if I can't change this world I ain't leavin, baby, that's the same reason you should call me this evenin'!" - The Coup
"Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary's life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime."- Angela Davis
"I advocate revolutionary changes...an end to capitalist exploitation, the abolition of racist policies, the eradication of sexism and the elimination of political repression. If that is a crime, then I am totally guilty" -Assata Shakur
The reason racism is a feminist issue is easily explained by the inherent definition of feminism. Feminism is the political theory to free all women: women of color, working-class women, poor women, physically challenged women, lesbians, old women, as well as white economically priveleged heterosexual women. Anything less than this is not feminism, but merely female self-aggrandizement." -Barbara Smith
"The women is of great importance to the revolutionary process. She is capable of realizing the most difficult task, of fighting along side the men... To the primitive life of battle, she brings qualities characteristics of her sex and works just as hard as a man... but with a tenderness superior to that of her brothers in arm. Tenderness, how important are in moments of suffering." -Ernesto Guevara
La vida no es lo que vivimos, La vida es el honor y el recuerdo, por eso mas vale morir con el pueblo vivo, y no vivir con el pueblo muerto."

My Interests

My interest is the total and unapologetic liberation and unity of our existence.
Our first COLOR video created by Mimi!!! ;o)

"Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?" ~Ernest Gaines

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I'd like to meet:

Personas que viven por vivir pero no temen la muerte. Ellas y Ellos quien miran al pasado para guia hace al futuro. Esas/os activistas que no miden su activismo con un solo acto mÃ¡s bien con su vida entera. Ellas y ellos quien tienen cuentos para contar, y experiencia para dar. Ellas y ellos quien con sus pocos aÃ±os pueden dar luz color indigo. Ultimadamente, quiero conocer a personas que con solo segundos de estar en su presencia tengo el precentimiento de averl@s conocido por milenios.

Music:

random -ish...but really the music that moves my soul is that reggae/ska combo and those 'i'll slit my wrists to this music type -ish'..below are some of my favorites!
Gloria Trevi// Dead Prez// Mary J. Blige// Brenton Woods// Jose-Jose// Janis Joplin// Elton John// Bob Marley//Sublime// Capleton// James Brown// Sly, Slick and Wicked//Etta James underground native american hip-hop// Los Angeles Azules//Ralphi Pagan Caifanes//The Coup// Erykah Badu// Elton John//L.A.-based, Denver-based MC's// one-hit wonders// Carlos Santana (speaks to my soul)//random 80's music a couple Snoop songs, Tupac Amaru (bad-ass name BTW)

Movies:

I'd like to note, I HATE scary movies and even the previews weird me out...so you will find nothing of the sort in the following list. I like documentaries, love stories, comedies, that sort of thing!
Mi Familia, Lolita, Maria Full of Grace, El Crimen del Padre Amaro, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Whale Rider, Mala Educacion, A Walk to Remember, The Green Mile, Training Day, Man on Fire, Unleashed, John Q, Like Water for Chocolate, Killing Us Softly, SeÃ±orita Extraviada,Crash, Hotel Rwanda, Paloma de Papel, Motorcycle Diaries, Brown Sugar, The Notebook, Latin Kings of Comedy, Manchurian Candidate, The Goodfellas, Boys in the Hood, Scent of a Woman, Born in East L.A., FEAR AND LEARNING AT HOOVER ELEM, Stand and Deliver, Crazy/Beautiful, Dangerous Minds, Set It Off, The Color Purple, Get on the Bus, Falling Down, True Romance, Brokendown Palace, Happy Feet, Lost and Delirious, Fire, Superbad, Juno, Madagascar, Rosita, Under the Same Moon

Television:

Student Protest at UNLV's opening of the New Student Union

Books:

I'd like to say i love reading and that i do it all the time and that i finish every book I start, but truth is I don't finish books no matter how good they are, so i'm an anthology/short story reader. I'm in the process of building up my library and contemplating whether to be selfish and keep them all or exchange them with other readers of the like. Books. Authors. Passages. Everything from Gabriel Garcia to George Orwell to Dante to Plato to AcuÃ±a to Cisneros to Hooks to Machiavelli to Moraga. At this time, I am reading Incite's 'The Revolution Will Not Be Funded" and since its an anthology, i might get through it!

Heroes:

My She-roes, he-roes, and Ze-roes are All the nameless faces that fight tirelessly to provide for their loved ones day in and day out. Those who have had the courage to speak out against injustice and fought tirelessly for it.

My Blog

To Be Continued...

It has always been difficult to keep what i feel inside. I have pushed you away and pulled you close. Intimidated and in awe. I too, dream and wander off. Often i dream of being with you, walking bar...
Posted by Emilia X. on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:36:00 PST

A Love Poem by a Desperate Womyn

5:34a.m. I can't promise you a "love poem". But I can promise you something else.I'm not sure if it's love or a poem or just pure desperation. Asphyxiating: Burning, intangible, unpalpable, heart...
Posted by Emilia X. on Mon, 21 May 2007 05:50:00 PST

Me, and my dreams of being a Fig Tree

Part I:I am sometimes astounded by the genius of those a whole decade or so younger than me, their ability to see things so much more clearly than the rest of us, their willingness to talk and convers...
Posted by Emilia X. on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 09:36:00 PST

Asco? Ni que fueras Dios

How DARE anyone call me a "traitor", a "backstabber", a "fucking asshole" say "me das asco", say that they've lost all respect for me, accuse me of "having 'their' back", say that years of friendship ...
Posted by Emilia X. on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 03:54:00 PST

The search for a hole puncher led to this.

Yes. I cry. I cry quite frequently actually.Pero Hoy, hoy llore por injusticia. Llore por el dolor que siento al saber que "Juanita shouldn't speak Spanish, she's in America, doesn't she know English ...
Posted by Emilia X. on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 06:25:00 PST

"No, Kenia..."

So as i was getting out of class and in the hallway, after taking my final as Strand was walking in..and he casually asks, "hard?" i said, "suprisingly no, i think i did well" he smiled as h...
Posted by Emilia X. on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:02:00 PST

i watched apocalypto

i watched it because i didn't want to go and have debates with people regarding the nature of the film, morever, i didn't want anyone to tell me how great/horrible it was...i wanted to be the judge of...
Posted by Emilia X. on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 04:06:00 PST

Pahrump and Social Justice

First: the news so you all can understand what the issue is... Nevada town passes English-only law© 2006 The Associated PressPAHRUMP, Nev. A town board in southern Nevada has adopted an ordinance de...
Posted by Emilia X. on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:34:00 PST

streams of consciousness

Es mas profundo que las raices del maizemas fuerte que las olas durante un huracanEs mas tiern@ que una sonrisa de un bebey mas intenso que verme llorar en frente del espejo Me trae calma, locura, pas...
Posted by Emilia X. on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 07:52:00 PST

i inspired Juanito to write about me ;o)

June 01, 2006 Se llama Kenia, Kenia la apasionada La que siempre debate, La que nunca se calla, Se llama Kenia, La que no es nada dejada, Kenia la feminista, La no privilegiada Se llama ...
Posted by Emilia X. on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:23:00 PST