julianne escobedo shepherd

April 12th, 2011 at 12:56PM

Yes, Marcos is gay. Marcos is gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe, a Chicano in San Ysidro, an anarchist in Spain, a Palestinian in Israel, a Mayan Indian in the streets of San Cristobal, a Jew in Germany, a Gypsy in Poland, a Mohawk in Quebec, a pacifist in Bosnia, a single woman on the Metro at 10pm, a peasant without land, a gang member in the slums, an unemployed worker, an unhappy student and, of course, a Zapatista in the mountains. Marcos is all the exploited, marginalised, oppressed minorities resisting and saying `Enough’. He is every minority who is now beginning to speak and every majority that must shut up and listen. He is every untolerated group searching for a way to speak. Everything that makes power and the good consciences of those in power uncomfortable — this is Marcos. —

Subcomandante Marcos (via ezlnzapatista)

Marcos is almost more than a person. Marcos is a character, a symbol, in a way I think is unique to Mexican culture. Usually I’d have a problem with statement like this, but being that woman on the metro, that Chicanita in Eugene, that unhappy student, this rings true.

(via dahlias-y-rosas)

(via rosas--sylvestres)