El mundo from el punto de vista de una Nuyorican mami soltera livin la vida from the borderline while writing, spitting activist poesia and entertaining her daughter la MapucheRican
Well this blog is anyway. I'm moving off of blogger and slowly settling into mamitamala.com thanks to Vegankid. That site is under serious construction including updating links and the look… Read More
If I could choose the next fantasy father of my next fantasy baby it would be Gael Garcia Bernal. He's talented, cute, and has good politics. Usually the movies he plays in are well done and… Read More
Many many changes are about to happen. In my life and on this blog. Mi pololo will be leaving for Spain for three weeks, giving me three weeks of time to think and reflect and plan. I have t… Read More
I refuse to balance on a hyphenSlip between ellipses of omissionof waitingfor my adjectivemy modifier. I like to use the dash when I write, especially when I write in my daily journal. It in… Read More
I have bathed every inch of this skin And what is covered beneath itIn your waters. SlowlyMethodicallyCautiously. It is not that I am unfamiliar with the ritual of submerging.Toes gripping t… Read More
While the blanquitos are debating the prez's speech, Univision and Telemundo wuickly went back to broadcasting their novelas, porque heaven forbid that abuela misses lo que paso Read More
Does anyone see the contradictions in Bush's speech? He talks about bolstering border security yet admits that so far that has not been a deterrent. What's so different now? I wonder if Bush… Read More
Right away he labels people as "illegal immigrants" which is obviously problematic. People - immigrants are not illegal. According to the President, "Illegal Immigration brings crime to comm… Read More
Uh oh...something went wrong with the feed. CNN say they accidently showed the president "rehearsing". Who knew it took so much practice too look so stupid Read More
As an experiment and as a reaction to a conservative blogger, I decided I'm going to live blog the bobo in chief's speech, which airs live in less than an hour Read More
Gracias for all the birthday wishes. 29 is turning out to feel alot like 19 in more ways than one. This is not a post about all the wonderful sex I had this past weekend (although it could b… Read More
In case you don't know me personally and know the shamelessness that is Mala you may not know that this coming Friday is my birthday. I will be entering my last year as a twenty-something. N… Read More
At approximately 5:30 yesterday afternoon there was a knock at my door. I went to answer it as it was an afternoon full of client meetings. I looked through the peephole. Nadie. I opened the… Read More
La MapucheRican sees herself as unlucky in cycles. Last summer it was the Home Depot sink display falling on her. We rang in the new year with the fork incident My recent absence was do to a… Read More
La MapucheRican asked me this as I scrambled an egg for her breakfast. I had made the decision not to send her to school to honor Monday's strike/boycott. Keeping her homes from school howev… Read More
Wow I have never seen people get so worked up over a song. Just read all the racist blindly nationalistic comments on the issue over at the blog I write on Read More
I just read about this Poem on your Blog Weekend over at fellow NYC blogger Ron's blog and it seems only fit to post well a poem and step up and put my poems where my earlier blog post is… Read More
People really need to head over to Blackademic and read Nubian's post on the ranking of oppression in the feminist movement, its role in the Duke Rape case, and some of the disgusting but no… Read More
Soy egoista. Well at least I like to play off like I am. Like when I get up on stage at a tertulia and spit broken spic Spanish poems with fucked up grammar and then smile graciously as peop… Read More
Mil gracias to all of you who gave me so much love at last night's tertulia. It was wonderful to see each and every one of you, especially the people I hadn't seen in a minute. I monopolized… Read More
Obviously that's not me, it's my friend and fellow poeta Diego Vargas at the last Fusion Atomica tertulia. This Wednesday (tommorow), April 26th, Fusion Atomica presents its Tertulia featur… Read More