Posts Tagged ‘community’
Chingona Guide for Love in the Time of XX*
We’re excited to present the Chingona Guide for Love in the Time of XX*: 8 simple practices for health and happiness during a global pandemic, written by Jessica Aranda and illustrated and designed by James Aranda and Gloria T. Aranda. Jessica is a Mijente member based in stolen Tiwa land (Albuquerque, New Mexico). This guide […]
ReadHow to Keep Yourself Safe from COVID while Voting
This is a monumental election season for so many reasons, but there is an entirely new obstacle in place that we’ve literally never dealt with before: the highly infectious COVID-19. While the pandemic poses new challenges for voting, it does not mean that it isn’t possible to vote safely, even for high risk populations. If […]
Read“He is not experiencing the same Covid as we are”
President Donald Trump put out a video after leaving Walter Reed Medical Center, in which he affirmed “don’t let COVID dominate you, don’t be afraid of it, you’re gonna beat it.” We spoke to three Latinx creatives at the intersections of queerness and disability about their experiences receiving care during a pandemic and the ways […]
ReadMoving Biden Toward Community Demands: Unity Task Force Releases Recs
July 8th, 2020Mijente director Marisa Franco issued the following statement on the Biden campaign’s newly announced immigration policy commitments. Franco was a member of the campaign’s unity task force on immigration as one of the representatives negotiated by the Bernie Sanders team.
ReadMijente members in Louisville, KY denounce state violence against Black people
May 30th, 2020Mijente members from Louisville, Kenucky, in solidarity with Black Lives Matter Louisville and Breonna Taylor’s family, unite in opposition to the recent murders of Black people at the hands of police and all the various forms of state sanctioned violence in Louisville, Kentucky. Mijente is a national Latinx grassroots organization founded on the grounds that [...]
ReadHacia Compañerismo y Conciencia: Pro-Blackness in Action
As a national multi-racial Latinx organization Mijente stands with all Black communities across the country who are calling out the injustice of the state sanctioned murder of Black people in the hands of the police. Latinx communities must show up now, correct and powerfully. We must go beyond hollowed statements of solidarity and towards a […]
ReadRecipes for Holistic Immunity Support for La Cura Podcast
I recently had the pleasure of being on Mijente’s La Cura Podcast as the first guest of their Community Care Series that feature how different community healers, health practitioners, community leaders are tending to themselves and their communities during the current Covid19 global pandemic. Below is a blog I wrote for it. **All information and […]
ReadLove and Agitation in the Times of Corona
Hi everyone, We’ve been in covid-tena since last Friday. I got tested for covid-19 on Tuesday due to possible exposure to confirmed cases, ensuring we were most informed for my team that was exposed to me as well, and experiencing symptoms. We are still waiting for my results; B has not shown any symptoms (yay!). [...]
ReadWe are a Network of Latinx Therapists who Believe in Abolishing ICE
My name is Imelda Ojeda and I am part of the Latinx Therapist Action Network. I am also a Masters in Social Work, a Mexican immigrant and a Therapist. Most of all I am deeply committed to the healing of Latinx people in my lifetime. I believe that we will win and I believe that we will […]
ReadMijente’s Language Justice League Responds to the Administration’s Move to Silence Immigrant Voices and Remove Court Interpreters
On July 3, 2019, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that the Trump Administration Department of Justice (DOJ), through the Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR), “is preparing to replace in-court interpreters at initial immigration court hearings with videos informing asylum seekers and other immigrants facing deportation of their rights.” On July 19, US News & […]
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