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Date Night on the Andador

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13 in ’13: My Grateful Homecoming to Chiapas

I’m back, baby! After a long journey (in planes, trains, and automobiles, no less) from Bielefeld –> Dusseldorf –> Cancún –> Isla Mujeres –> San Cristóbal de las Casas, I’m finally en casa yet again in Chiapas sweet Chiapas. I dreamt many times of this return over the course of my six months in Germany, [...]

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Feliz Navidad

Feliz navidad from RKA in LA

“Our first Christmas tree”: Roberto’s surprise find at the market this morning (And I thought we weren’t going to have a tree this year!)

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Stories of the Apocalypse: Fall Back, Move Forward

We wanted to own the future, so we started with the soil, taking people as prisoners, making them slaves to “progress.” Knowing the earth held the answers, we raped her. We stole from her. We brutalized the planet, demanding she give us the way forward, and when she wouldn’t give us the answers we wanted, we tried to enslave her, too. Centuries later, we live in plastic cities built on the ashes of our forgotten ancestors’ altars to the earth.
RKA on Clothesline Productions

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Should I Pray For My Abuser? Reconciling Feminism and Forgiveness

Paolo Freire writes, “In order for [the struggle for humanization] to have meaning, the oppressed must not, in seeking to regain their humanity (which is a way to create it), become in turn oppressors of the oppressors, but rather restorers of the humanity of both.”
RKA on Feminspire

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Dear Me: A Thank You Note To My Younger Self

I need you to know it’s okay to cry. Let it go, girl. Sob all over the world’s blueprints for you—they’re worthless, anyway. You don’t need other peoples’ plans. Let pain be your architect. The design for where I stand today is written in our deepest despair, forged on what you see as failure and I know now as fortitude. Don’t punish ourself for feeling, for fearing, for fretting: it is in these days of darkness that we will learn how to light our own fire. This skill will serve us for the rest of our days together and soon, you will see, we will teach others to do the same.
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I Talked To Raquel!

For those of you who don’t know, I’ve been in Germany on workcation for the last four months. Next month, I’m back to home sweet adopted home Chiapas and I have to say, I’m pretty pumped. My time in Germany has felt like one, long, neverending workday. Sure, I’m here with my San Cris sweetheart. [...]

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