Right now I’m adding stuff about a mujerista global movement, the Witch War, and that might have legs, or in the end it might not. If it’s true that writing the future is just another way to write the present, then my present is all about climate change, inequality, capitalism’s cruel optimism, femicidal violence, and the survival, against all odds, of the utopian imagination.
— Junot Díaz on his new story (in the New Yorker’s Sci Fi issue) which is mostly excellent (though the sad-sack girl-chasing is getting a little repetitive), and which he’s apparently turning into a novel, wepa!
The Adelante Alliance, a non-profit supporting low-income immigrant communities in Brooklyn, protests in solidarity with the Women Support Occupy rally, Sunday at Zuccotti Park.
(via rosas--sylvestres)
This is a picture of Winnie Wun in the first coat she ever bought in the U.S., purchased in the Los Angeles garment district in California (1979). This was also the first time she saw snow.
Many thanks to Phillina Valdez for sharing this wonderful photo of her mother.
