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goth-sea-creature · 19 hours

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aci25 · 6 months

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This is Berlin tonight, marching in MASSIVE numbers for Gaza 🇵🇸

Wow… Incredible!

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groovybruja · 18 days

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Tired of my face yet ? 🥺

#wlw #girls who like girls #brujas of tumblr #lgbtq community #lgbtqia #me #latina #latin girls #puerto rican #puertorriqueños #boricua #tell me im pretty

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baddawg94 · 1 year

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Michelle Rodriguez as Letty

2001’s “The Fast & The Furious”

#Michelle Rodriguez #fast and furious #the fast and the furious #hollywood actress #hollywood #action films #puertorriqueños #boricua #race car #girls who kiss girls #girls who like girls #girls and cars #2000s nostalgia #2000s movies #2001 #she so beautiful #letty ortiz

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dvndiosa · 9 months

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PUERTO RICO ‘23

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dynamotoon · 5 months

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PUMA ROSSA!!

#dynamotoon #art #tageverything #artists on tumblr #original art #puma rossa #wrestling #wrestler #boxer oc #originalart #original character #boricua #puerto rican #puerto rico #puertorriqueños

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mylife4rmnow-on · 6 months

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Happy Birthday to Me! Scorpio Season 🫶 ♏️

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missicebutterfly · 3 months

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Brandi quinones and Shalom Harlow

#90s supermodels #brandi quiñones #cubana #puertorriqueños #latina #sicilian #90s fashion #brandi quinones #fashion #90s aesthetic #pretty girls #shalom harlow #boricua #paris france

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lovedianagrey · 9 months

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miles morales & his spanish

I’d like to start with the disclaimer that headcanons are headcanons and if people are having fun with fluent Miles, then have fun. I’m so proud to see a Spider-Man with the blood I was raised with, with a mother who gives her bendiciones and kisses her son with the love I have seen my whole life.

And while my discussion may be in criticism of some things, I need to communicate this before anyone thinks otherwise.

I am proud of Miles Morales and what he represents. I love to see his family really feel like the life of someone in the diáspora. It is heart melting, and it is worth so fucking much to me as someone that’s seeing the growing recognition on this small, lovable, beautiful island. He is a part of the pride of my flag and of my home.

So yeah, I love that Miles Morales is Boricua.

But I do have some things I want to point out on Miles and the way he’s been observed within the fandom. After all, he’s kind of been discoursed into two people, neither of which I agree are accurate in the language sort of terms.

The first point is the following.

Miles is not a fluent Spanish speaker, switching between languages in sentences because he can’t remember words or he’s lost in his own head. He thinks in English.

Miles is not fluent enough, as observed by his vocabulary and sentence structure to think in Spanish. He is not a fluent character. He rushes words and in turn, speaks in Spanglish.

His pronunciation is the one thing that can be argued if the previous factors weren’t there.

One can be fluent in English and still struggle with pronunciation. However, that requires well developed grammatical knowledge, which we haven’t observed enough from Miles.

There’s only two full, Spanish spoken sentences that we see in the whole movie, which I will quickly break down.

“¿Qué tal tío?” Directly translates to “how are you, [insert colloquial term of impersonal endearment]”.

This is a quick greeting, not colloquial to Puerto Rican Spanish, and thus can be quickly assumed to be a class-learned thing. Which, you know, doesn’t help the argument that he is fluent.

And then there’s this:

“Te trajé una empanada.” That translates to “I brought you an empanada”.

Once again, this is a very easily taught sentence. Actually, it’s grammatically found to be a simple sentence, as it holds only one verb. But also, he pronounces the verb wrong. He pronounces it almost as “dress” instead of “brought you”. The meaning shifts with the spelling of the word (ex. papa vs papá).

The second point follows.

Miles doesn’t need to be fluent to be a Spanish speaker.

The Spider-Man clearly showcases understanding of his mother in the college counseling scene, and that is enough to observe him as a Spanish speaker.

People can say they speak a language after having enough knowledge to hold a conversation. The previous evidence observes Miles being able to conduct an introduction and a point. That’s enough words to be passable when ordering food, yk? And that’s good enough.

He’s definitely able to capture terms and realize what words mean, which clearly showcases how he can continue his effort to know more, but still has enough basics to communicate himself.

And now, the final point.

He doesn’t need to be a Spanish speaker to be Puerto Rican.

Miles isn’t explored enough in the language to show his understanding of Spanish as fluent.

And that’s okay. Miles represents a very specific type of person. But also, he represents millions of experiences.

Being from somewhere else, being from a diáspora is an experience that while I personally haven’t been able to relate to fully, millions have. For example, all immigrants know what a diáspora is. Maybe not in the coined term, but in its significance and its pain. Being away from a motherland and living in a fundamentally different nation.

But Puerto Rico is an interesting situation because it’s officially part of the United States’ territories, but is still experienced as a foreign place. One of its fundamental differences is the main language explored in the island, being Spanish vs the US’ English.

And because of its particular, and very colonial-esque, nature around the island, Puerto Ricans can often find the discourse of what makes a Puerto Rican a Puerto Rican. Born, raised, fluent, and influenced by Puerto Rican culture are oftentimes the most important aspects to acknowledge someone as being from here.

Many times, people from diásporas find themselves being rejected in where they live, but are just as marginalized from where they come from (biologically, culturally, or otherwise). And this experience is what often bothers me about the whole situation regarding Miles’ Spanish.

Because Miles, and any other Puerto Rican, doesn’t owe people a certain origin to be a Boricua. You can live your whole childhood in England after moving from the island, and still say you are Puerto Rican. You can be raised by Puerto Rican parents and never step into the island’s soil, and you are still Puerto Rican. You’re able to be born somewhere else, but be raised and loved by a family here, and you are still Puerto Rican. You are who you are, identity is in your grasp, and no one owes anything to others.

He doesn’t have to speak the language to still identify with the life of a Puerto Rican. Which is why it surprises me to observe people finalizing him as either not a speaker at all because he isn’t fluent (which btw implies he is less connected to his roots when you take away his interest in knowing) or he is fluent (which then takes away about his experience in the diáspora).

This is not to say that people in the diáspora cannot be fluent, just like they cannot be fully disconnected from the Spanish language. I’m personally identifying that Miles can be in between, and still be characterized as who he is within his canonical identity. Final notes:

When wanting to write more Puerto Rican influenced work, be sure to inform yourself! There’s a lot of things to learn about, and it’s always lovely to know more.

Boricua is a term used in the island to refer to Puerto Ricans.

I definitely encourage people to inform themselves of the term diáspora, especially if you are of foreign descent from where you live!

And of course, thanks for reading!

#miles morales #across the spiderverse #spider man: across the spider verse #spider man: into the spider verse #atsv #spiderman atsv #spanish #puerto rico #puerto rican #puertorriqueños #i got tired of people misidentifying miles #this is what it means to me #miles morales speaks spanish

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nawneesama · 5 months

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I hate tourists.

I hate tourists. Call me toxic all you want, but I hate them with a burning passion. They're nothing but a reminder that my land is a playground to them. My history is just a story to them. My culture is for them to appropriate. My people are slaves to them. My people are targets to them. Vieques was used as bombing practice for 63 years, and I didn’t know. We had a god named Atabey, the mother of our land, whom we loved, and I didn't know. Christ was the only “god” I knew. Our homes are nothing but hills to be plowed so the Americans can come and build their resorts upon the corpses and memories of our people. To them, we are just a vacation destination. We are a place for them to get drunk and party their cares away. But we can't party, we're stuck living here in the crisis they created. “Come on down to Puerto Rico: La Isla Del Encanto! Or did you think that was Colombia, thanks to Disney? You won't care either way when your blood is pumped full of bacardi! Since you love it so much, why not just move here? Look, one of our locals just moved out to the states, why don't you take their home?” May you drown in the resort pools. May you be cut by our reefs. May you be burned by our sun. May you be beaten by our people. Whenever tourists enter my bar, all I can see are colonizers, the erasure of my people, the erasure of who I am. Of who we are. They do not see my people, all they see is their next vacation.

I hate tourists.

#free puerto rico #puerto rico #vieques #culebra #boricua #tourism #tourist #puerto rican #puertorriqueños #poetry #poem

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aci25 · 3 months

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About the pro-Palestine protests, Lockheed Martin has said they “respect the right to peaceful protest.”

Protest images from @kobathebori and @alissette_arias

Bianca Graulau

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bloodyke · 5 months

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(aqui esta el articulo en español de CPIPR)

(link to english articule from washington post)

[image ID: the first image is a picture of a road on one of puerto ricos forrested mountains with the headline "Más personas muerten en Puerto Rico mientras el sistema de salud se desmorona." The subheading reading "Pese a las vacunas y a la disponibilidad de medicamentos para el COVID-19, en 2022 murieron 35,400 personas en el Isla, la mayor cifra de los últimos 20 años."

the second image is an overhead shot of various graves located in Puerto Rico, with the headline reading "More people are dying in Puerto Rico as its healthcare system crumbles." The subheading reads "Islanders died of chronic conditions and COVID-19 in 2022 at numbers that surpassed even Hurricane Maria's toll." : end ID]

Excerpt from The Washington Post Article:

AGUAS BUENAS, Puerto Rico — In a purple house along a narrow road in Puerto Rico’s Central Mountain Range, Margarita Gómez Falcón’s breathing suddenly grew labored one March evening. She called an ambulance and began a grim two-hour wait for paramedics to arrive.

Health services across this self-governing island have been deteriorating for years, contributing to a surge in deaths that reached historic proportions in 2022, an investigation by The Washington Post and Puerto Rico’s Center for Investigative Journalism has found.

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The case of Gómez Falcón, 67, underscores the many ways a faltering medical system has contributed to elevated death rates.

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Aguas Buenas, a small, working-class town in the central highlands, had one working ambulance for its 25,000 people when Gómez Falcón called for help, so dispatchers sent a private one that had trouble finding her home in the town’s winding back roads.

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Puerto Rico, with a population of 3.3 million people, experienced more than 35,400 deaths last year. That’s nearly 3,300 more than researchers would ordinarily expect based on historic patterns, according to a statistical analysis by The Post and Puerto Rico’s Center for Investigative Journalism (CPI).

This “excess mortality” — a term scientists use to describe unusually high death counts from natural disasters, disease outbreaks or other factors — resulted in part from a covid spike early last year that killed more than 2,300 people, health data shows.

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The recent jump in mortality is the latest warning sign that years of natural disasters and financial crises have taken a deadly toll.

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“It’s been nearly six years since Maria, and nothing has been resolved,” said Nereida Meléndez‚ a community activist in Aguas Buenas. “Here there are bridges that no one has done anything for. There are damaged highways no one has done anything to fix. Here one says, ‘What about that money they sent us? Where is it? What are they doing with it?’”

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Puerto Rico’s public health system was once the envy of the Caribbean. Then-Gov. Pedro Rosselló privatized it in the 1990s, in what became known as “La Reforma.” Most government-owned hospitals were sold in an effort to control costs and streamline operations. But the opposite took place: By 2006, Puerto Rico’s economy tanked and public debt ballooned[.]

Puerto Rico's healthcare system is crumbling (alongside many other public utilities - one notable such example is the powergrid, as many of you have probably heard about recently due to the massive wave of protests against LUMA the current private company in charge of maintaining it) due to lack of resources and support. This is a crisis that has been building for decades due to many factors, such as the installment of an unelected board of overseers who have control of the puerto rican economy due to the enactment of. PROMESA in 2016, the enactment of ACT 60, a bill that incentivizes wealthy mainland U.S. citizens to move to Puerto Rico due to the increased tax breaks they will recieve that include a 100% tax exemption from Puerto Rico income taxes on: dividends, interest, short-term and long-term capital gains, and an exemption from the local and state property taxes equal to 75%, the withholding of emercency aid and support after natural disasters (the most notable example being the absolutely horrendus response to Hurricane Maria, that ended with the then Governor, Ricky Rosselló, resigning from his position after his sexist, racist, and homophic Telegram messages that included disparaging remarks about the victims of Hurricane Maria were leaked.)

This also includes the contiuned privitization of all aspects of puerto rican life, including the attempt to privatize the public beaches, lakes, canals, and parks in 2020, and the attempt to privatize the Taíno Caguana Ceremonial Indigenous Heritage Center in April 2023, though these are only two of many many many examples.

#zenith.txt #puerto rico #boriken #boricua #puertorico #puertorriqueños #im not sure how to end this post other than support puerto rican independence NOW

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prisonfamily · 9 months

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🇵🇷 @prison-wifey

#puerto rico #rican #boricua #taino #la isla bonita #puertorriqueños #puerto rican #san juan #pr #island

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lobuenodepuertorico · 1 year

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“Rolling Stone” destaca a artistas puertorriqueñas en una entrevista histórica

La revista destacó que es una pieza histórica y la primera vez que le dedican tantas páginas a mujeres de la música de reggaetón y urbana

La popular revista musical Rolling Stone publicó hoy una entrevista destacando a cinco artistas puertorriqueñas quienes están revolucionando el género urbano: Chesca, PaoPao, RaiNao, Villano Antillano y Young Miko.

Estas cinco mujeres del género urbano, quienes ya suenan en países internacionales, son tendencias en las redes y han creado un movimiento de mujeres poderosas.

Su denominador común es su estilo individual, presencia escénica, su empoderamiento y han colaborado unas con las otras como el tema más reciente “Dale Play” entre RaiNao y PaoPao.

La revista destacó que es una pieza histórica y es la primera vez que le dedican tantas páginas a mujeres de la música de reggaetón y urbana.

En diciembre 2022, las cinco artistas puertorriqueñas se reunieron en el Taller Comunidad La Goyco, en la calle Loíza, en Santurce, donde se llevó a cabo la sesión de fotográfica en un mismo día.

Since 2018, women and LGBTQ folx in Puerto Rico have been powering a scene that’s been virtually unheard of in the male-dominated world of reggaeton and urbano. A new generation of artists — including @villanoantillano, @rainaopr, @paopao, @chesca, and @itsyoungmiko — are breaking barriers and demanding to be heard. Hit the link in our bio to read more.