#mexican immigrants

[politijohn]

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#immigration #politics #us politics #government #border #Texas #news #current events #border wall #mexican border #twitter post #the left #progressive

[jellogram]

reblog to kill it faster

#I was indifferent to coachella before but after living in the valley for a month I'm like holy shit this thing is horrid #that is SUCH a poor area #coachella the town is predominantly poor and predominantly mexican immigrants #so you get all these spoiled rich kids from LA clogging up this very low income area #I'd like to think the income helps the city but there's simply not space in that town for that many people #I can't imagine how horrible it must be to live there during the festival #I would be very interested to hear the local perspective but of course it's never fucking represented

[boycritter]

in a museum with my mother (but it could be anywhere at all)

#oscars art #poetry #prose poetry #latino #mexican #immigrant #not 2 be dramatic but this may be one of my favorite things ive written ever

[kuramirocket]

#indigenous #native #🇲🇽 #mexico #colonization #imperialism #colonialism #usa #united states #discrimination against mexicans #decolonize #immigration

[jenlog]

being stingy abt giving guests food is kind of insane but also cultures where you're encouraged to be actively pushy abt giving ppl food are also fucking annoying

#speaking as someone w mexican immigrant family

[hussyknee]

Seeing characters in romance stories just jetting between countries at a moment's notice with no thought for visa; seeing airports as sites of triumphant climaxes and romantic denouements instead of places of fear and danger where a sword hangs above your head— it all breaks off little pieces of my heart. They're constant reminders that my people will never be human enough in the colonial world order to be allowed to move freely around it. No matter what your race, those non-refugees living in the Global North will never understand what it's like to be part of a global ghetto where your passport is nothing but a trembling supplication and humiliation.

#race #racism #westerners will never know the dehumanization of the visa office #the ability to afford a plane ticket and the ability to get your visa stamped goes hand in hand #bc you're not allowed to leave the country unless you can show that you can afford to stay there and come back #you have to swear in blood that you won't overstay a minute longer than you're permitted to and sign your firstborn as collateral #a western airport is the closest i can come to the muslim experience bc the authorities will only care about my skin tone #that season 2 finale of Sense8 where the Mexican‚ and Kenyan and Indian characters of the cluster were able to flee to the US within hours #at the same time as the south korean and westerners #had Lankan fans falling down laughing #we're willing to suspend our disbelief of the science fiction telepathy shenanigans but THAT is a bridge too far #sadly not even the worst of the Wakowskis racefails #I love that show but its Caucasity was aggressive #global south #global north #immigration #refugees #islamophobia #no fly list #white supremacy #coloniality #western imperialism #colonial capitalism #knee of huss

[whenweallvote]

When farmers Gonzalo and Felicitas Mendez sent their children to a local California school in 1945, school officials said they had to go to a separate facility reserved for Mexican American students. Angered by this discrimination, the Mendez family recruited other immigrant parents for a federal court case challenging the school segregation.

On this day 77 years ago, a Circuit Court made a final ruling in their favor — stating segregated education denied the Mexican American students their equal protection rights under the 14th Amendment.

The Mendez v. Westminster decision paved the way for the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case in 1954, and is a clear example of Mexican Americans fighting for their rights — and winning. 🙌🏽

#mendez v westminster #brown v board of education #california #14th amendment #fourteenth amendment #mexican americans #immigrant rights #mexican american rights #school segregation #segregation #history

[trollhunters-eldritch-princess]

i'm rewatching 3 below right now and i love how the show is so unapologetically, staunchly pro-immigration.

#tales of arcadia #3 below #krel tarron #aja tarron #varvatos vex #immigration #pro-immigration #i mean del toro is a mexican man writing about foreign children fleeing violence from revolutions #and how their struggles and desperation is ignored by an anti-alien government

[alwaysbewoke]

#lebanese immigrants #tacos al pastor #mexican cuisine #culinary fusion #cultural exchange #shawarma #open flame cooking #pineapple #cilantro #mexican street food

[oldtvandcomics]

Happy Queer Media Monday!

Today: I Dream In Another Language (2017)

I watched this movie a few weeks ago, and it STUCK.

(Don Evaristo and Don Isauro just before their first interview to record Zikril together.)

I Dream in Another Language is a Mexican magic realism movie about the death of a culture. It documents the efforts of a linguist trying to save the (fictional) language Zikril, spoken only by three old indigenous people. When one of them dies, the studies come to a halt, as the other two, Don Evaristo and Don Isauro, have not spoken to each other in over fifty years and categorically refuse to have anything to do with each other. As he looks further into this, the linguist discovers that the real reason for this feud is their past relationship and an awful lot of internalized homophobia.

Zkril is an artificial language, created specially for this movie out of respect for the people who still speak the endangered and disappearing languages today. The fact that it has seemingly magic powers, and that its speakers appear to be living on after their death, clearly puts the story into the magic realism genre.

This is NOT a happy movie. The internalized homophobia part is no joke, and the main theme of course is the loss of a language, and the culture that comes with it. 

But it damn sure is leaving an emotional impact.

I strongly suggest that everyone who is even vaguely interested in this subject read up about languages and language conservation. The Wikipedia page of this movie is as a good place to start as any, since there are related articles linked in the references list. I also would like to thank @celluloidrainbow for bringing this film to my attention.

Queer Media Monday is an action I started to talk about some important and/or interesting parts of our queer heritage, that people, especially young people who are only just beginning to discover the wealth of stories out there, should be aware of. Please feel free to join in on the fun and make your own posts about things you personally find important!

#I cannot stress how good this movie is #and how much THE INTERNALIZED HOMOPHOBIA IS NOT A JOKE #but yeah the theme does personally resonate with me #I love languages I love culture and I live in a very multilingual place #also I'm a child of immigrants who is lucky enough to have parents who made sure that we actually stick with our mother language #but I do still feel this certain disconnect to my country of origin #nothing ANYWHERE near as bad as people in colonial countries experience mind you #nut the themes are there somewhere #anyway people take your languages seriously and cherish them and pass them on to future generations #languages are SO IMPORTANT!! #i love languages #I Dream in Another Language #post-colonial cinema #queer movies #queer cinema #movie recommendation #Mexican cinema #international queer cinema #Queer Media Monday

[portraitsofsaints]

Saint Toribio Romo Gonzalez 1900-1928 Feast Day: May 21 Patronage: Immigrants

Saint Toribio Romo Gonzalez was a young parish priest who died during the Cristero war and was canonized as one of the Martyrs of the Catholic Action Movement in Mexico. He courageously exercised his ministry even when religious persecution intensified and calmly accepted martyrdom, forgiving his persecutors. Today many people have encountered St. Toribio’s miraculous help while migrating on their journey.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase here: (website)

#St Toribio Romo Gonzalez #Saint for immigrants #Mexican saint #Viva Cristo Rey #artist on tumblr

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

#immigration #southern border #Mexican army #migrants #never trump #republican assholes #maga morons

[supercomplicatedperson]

Wanna hear what made me so incredibly angry today?!?!?

For a couple of years now, especially since the pandemic, there has been a plague of foreigners who have the option of working remotely and proceed to move to Mexico because it's "so cheap!". This has obviously made it so many established neighborhoods and streets become unlivable for the people who were already there due to gentrification.

And while you can excuse making historic neighborhoods in Mexico basically become touristic zones full of white people who never bothered to learn Spanish as them "not knowing the harm they cause", you'll have a hard time convincing me these people are THAT stupid or ignorant.

https://belatina.com/foreigners-close-down-local-restaurant-puerto-vallarta-mexican-music-too-loud/

These people moved to Mexico, next to a historic Mexican restaurant, and now they want to close it down because the mexican music they play on the mexican restaurant is "too loud" for them?!?! This is a level of self entitlement and straight up malicious selfishness that pisses me off so bad. This is what mexico is dealing with. This isn't immigrants trying to assimilate to the culture, this is foreigners moving to a country they find comfortable and "cheap" and wanting to ban mariachi from performing outside or on the beach because it inconveniences them. And when covered by foreign papers like this article it always gets framed as "they're so disruptive! They aren't conducive to relaxation!".

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2024/04/01/mexico-beach-bands-tourists-noise-eclipse/d92e89ca-f040-11ee-a4c9-88e569a98b58_story.html

I hate I hate I hate I hope they get eaten by a truck.

#gentrification #colonialism #modern colonialism #Mexico #SO ANGRY #HATE #extranjeros #foreigners #gringos #rant post #Mariachi Bands #Mexican #Immigration and gentrification are DIFFERENT

[kuramirocket]

When you ask white people where they're really from

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#🇲🇽 #usa #united states #colonization #mexico #colonialism #imperialism #native #indigenous #spain #europe #history #mexican history #colorado #treaty of guadalupe hidalgo #immigration

[mueritos]

an assortment of musings and scribbles...been listening to a lot of blood girl (the first drawing is based off blood girl lyrics), mormor, and moses sumney. been thinking and thinking and thinking....will be back to posting normie and sane shit soon 

(last pic is a baby picture of my twin @fatsmyname and i)

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#muertodraws #digital art #trans art #queer art #introspective art #unless u guys like my introspective art #i feel its a tad different from what i usually do #the last one is me and my twin as babies #ive been going thru a lot to say the least #things have settled now but my brain has a chokehold on me unfortunately #and it will never stop analyzing the hierarchies and dynamics that have been launched at me #the burdens and the baggage of others to carry.... #thanks a lot im already a trans faggot raised by mexican immigrants now i have to shoulder how white people have hurt me #and i have to shoulder how their hurt will forever be examined by myself and never by the people who committed that harm #because they would absolutely destroy themselves before taking accountability #sigh #anyway #all of my friends are brown now and thank fuck #if ur interested in my art i have been posting more regularly on my patreon #been talking to more indigenous and brown people and i feel way more safer and understood by them #spending time with my boyfriend as well #im still in therapy....yea...

[kuruk]

white liberal lgbt americans kind of have a little bit of an oppression fantasy though sorry for phrasing it like that lol but it feels like they get some weird excitement out of this sort of thing. I've seen a lot of them end their posts telling people to vote for biden with how not voting for biden is going to endanger "queers and people of color and anyone who's not a white cishet christian" and pretend they care about what's happening to black people and latinos and immigrants but you can tell they're mostly talking about how they're scared of getting killed for being a gay atheist or whatever

#obv not that only white americans are capable of thinking like this #but for them to mention what will happen to like mexican immigrants if we dont vote biden is like awful. like do they know #they think it all goes away whenever we have a democrat president #even if it did it wouldnt justify this sort of selfish cruel thinking. but it really shows they barely care about even that