Maria Garcia lets us know this is her story. She uses the border as a symbol of the separations of herself as well as the countries. As with Jesus on a Tortilla we hear about hardship and prejudice Mexican immigrants…
El (e)spanglish, la lengua del futuro
Confession: I still have Tribe Called Quest in my head, days later, now remixed with Selena (and Dilson Hernandez and Ben Grosscup’s No More Sacrifice Zones, but that’s…off-topic). What is the relationship between music and memory? Reading Go Ahead…
Anything for Selena, Episode 1, Episode 2 – Reader Response from Sandy Jimenez
After listening to more, (nearly all) of the podcast episodes in this series (and re-listening over the past couple of months,) I have to concede that I had judged much of its tone unfairly. I had dismissed these podcasts entirely…
Selena Reflection
I like when we get alternate forms of memoir/biography “reading,” aka podcasts for this week as it allows me to consider how each form can enhance or emphasize different aspects of storytelling. I was thinking a lot this week about…
“Old,” “Older,” “Oldest,” but potentially not “Too Old”?
Victoria Phillips Selena Podcast and Media Reflection I am old. Well, in today’s parlance I am supposed to say, “I am older,” and never, “I am old.” But when I listen to most podcasts, I feel more old than older.…
A Tribe Called Quest
Phife and Q-Tip on “Check the Rhime” On the Grammy Awards On SnL Cheryl Boyce-Taylor
Prologue Attempt
Note: Not finished – ran out of time and was already 400 words over the word count, yikes! My ambition may have overshot the assignment; below I tried to clarify the story from the situation of my subject. And while…
Reflections on Go Ahead in the Rain
I am a fan. I absolutely loved A Little Devil in America; I follow Abdurraqib on social media; I went to hear shows in a musical series he curated because he’d curated it. He is a genius, knows everything, wears…
Proem, Spoken Before a Life Sentence
Proem, Spoken Before a Life Sentence “My aunt said never a word, but… walked out, and never came back. She vanished like a discontented fairy; or like one of those supernatural beings, whom it was popularly supposed I was entitled…
Go Ahead in The Rain: A few prompts from thousands of miles up in the sky
Go Ahead in The Rain a Tribe Called Quest, I never listened to music growing up, not really. I remember sitting in the hot car, Rocky Mountain heat, with my uncle who was a self-proclaimed DJ for BBQ’s, baptisms and…
