CHICOLANDIA
AN OPEN SPACE LED by a chicana folklorist + artist living in TEJAS
i feel like Selena today when I let my long hair down. 

Ive never spent longer days with someone and felt content. 
Stoics were concerned with the active relationship between cosmic determinism and human freedom, and the belief that it is virtuous to maintain a will that is in accord with nature. 
David está enamorado.
Stay out of fear. Be the magician! 
what do Latinas look like? 
Graciasland

The river Rio Grande is carving like a nationals car

I’m following the river making wetbacks

Where my parents crossed to be now where they are.

I’m going to Aztlan, where I wanna be, I’m going to Aztlan.

My traveling companions,La Virgen, Miss Liberty,

A map and my MEChA books.

Well I’ve reason to believe, we all have been deceived

There still is Aztlan.

Miss Liberty tells me Aztlan’s gone, as if I didn’t know that

As if I didn’t know my own backyard,

As if I didn’t know

To get in you need a card. 

As I struggle to maintain and even find a secure job that will further my interests in folklore, museum studies, art, and such, I think about whether my “higher education” was all really worth it. All pursuits have been supported with great courage, passion, and eagerness to build all the ideas in my mind into reality and into practice.
This was probably written by someone who is just as passionate as I facing the same struggles to find the light of purpose. I hang onto to the belief that I am a valuable asset to my community and the simplicity of working for my community makes the struggle all worth it. 
Class of 2010 University of Texas at Austin
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