MARCO CASTRO-BOJORQUEZ
often times when historians speak of those who were on the front lines of AIDS advocacy, it is framed in…
Tag: remembrance
twenty years and counting: for nicholas
i snapped this picture of my brother nicholas and my mother was taken on mother’s day sometime in early 1990’s.…
Mourning In My Sleep: (Re)Connecting with My Ancestors
i have been mourning in my sleep lately. my grandmother, my mother, and dear my aunts janet and carmen have…
The Songs I Loved: Wilson Phillips “Impulsive”
my LOVED mother’s day. birthdays and holidays came and went without much notice but mother’s day was her day to…
The Songs I Loved: Concrete Blonde’s “Joey”
my life is a perpetual music soundtrack. i remember all of the moments – no matter how trivial or traumatic…
SELENA
My love for Selena would begin as a young brown boy growing up in Tucson, Arizona. As a first generation…
LORENA BORJAS
long known as a mother, activist and defender of trans women, sex workers and undocumented LGBTQIA folks, lorena borjas dedicated…
My Dear Aunt Blanca
blanca was the youngest of all my aunts. people called her sunshine because of her brightly dyed blonde hair. she…
WHITNEY HOUSTON
whitney houston was a queer icon decades before the term became a marketing ploy. she was one of us before,…
You Are My Friend: The Day Patti LaBelle Visited Sylvester
disco queen and black queer visionary, sylvester james died on december 16, 1988. two months before his death, one of…
The Forty-Nine (A Poem for the Pulse 49)
We are all made of stars, astronomers are now sayingPowerful supernova explosionsFrom neighboring galaxiesMade their way into oursAnd became us…
for my mother, on her birthday
i don’t have video of my mother laughing. the sound of her laugh exists only now in my mind. every…