remembrance

In Gratitude for My Aunt Carmen

growing up, i never believed adults were god. i was always curious about their ways and their secret jokes like…

may we all find the safety that we deserve. may we hold each other closer. and may we all continue…

I remember the night in the summer of 1991 as I sat on the steps with my two-speaker double cassette…

often times when historians speak of those who were on the front lines of AIDS advocacy, it is framed in…

i snapped this picture of my brother nicholas and my mother was taken on mother’s day sometime in early 1990’s.…

i have been mourning in my sleep lately. my grandmother, my mother, and dear my aunts janet and carmen have…

my LOVED mother’s day. birthdays and holidays came and went without much notice but mother’s day was her day to…

my life is a perpetual music soundtrack. i remember all of the moments – no matter how trivial or traumatic…

My love for Selena would begin as a young brown boy growing up in Tucson, Arizona. As a first generation…

long known as a mother, activist and defender of trans women, sex workers and undocumented LGBTQIA folks, lorena borjas dedicated…

blanca was the youngest of all my aunts. people called her sunshine because of her brightly dyed blonde hair. she…

whitney houston was a queer icon decades before the term became a marketing ploy. she was one of us before,…