by Aya de Leon | Apr 20, 2020 | Upcoming Events
Many of us had a vision for this week, the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. There would be millions marching in the streets demanding Climate Justice and pushing for the Green New Deal. Instead, we will have millions online, and the Daily Dose will be sponsoring three...
by Aya de Leon | Apr 16, 2020 | Audio/Visual
Like so many parents with kids in public school, we were all on lockdown, day after day, with hours to fill. Our family was fortunate, my partner and I both work from home, and there’s been no interruption in our income (yet). My man works full time and I work...
by Aya de Leon | Apr 13, 2020 | Opinion, Personal Essays
Last week was hard. The conservative majority on the highest Wisconsin state court ruled that their citizens would be forced to risk death in a pandemic in order to vote. This, in spite of an injunction by the WI Governor to delay the primary and have citizens vote by...
by Aya de Leon | Apr 7, 2020 | Guest Post, Poetry, Uncategorized
One of my UC Berkeley students, Pablo Paredes, wrote the following poem, and it just felt so timely. You can also see him perform it in the video, below. Fear and despair are airborne diseases peor que el Coronavirus They … try to divide us But, we’ve...
by Aya de Leon | Mar 30, 2020 | Opinion, Personal Essays, Uncategorized
Yesterday, author Twitter blew up over the issue of payments to writers. According to Publishing Weekly, “the Internet Archive unilaterally granted itself emergency powers to lend a corpus of over 1.4 million ebooks without any restrictions, contrary to its own stated...
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