by Aya de Leon | Oct 1, 2020 | Opinion, Personal Essays
Until yesterday, Enola Holmes was trending #1 on Netflix, and my family has been watching. Even though the protagonist is a teen, it’s not for kids. The violence is too intense. So we’ve been watching slowly and forwarding past the really scary parts. The...
by Aya de Leon | Sep 28, 2020 | Audio/Visual, Personal Essays
I am working on a longer piece about the election and what it means to fight. Because let’s all be clear: we have the capacity to win this battle against rising fascism, and a Biden presidency opens the door for the Green New Deal, but we need to fight as hard...
by Aya de Leon | Sep 24, 2020 | Opinion, Personal Essays, Uncategorized
“EMT and aspiring nurse Breonna Taylor, 26, was shot to death by police in her own home on March 13. In what has been described as a ‘botched raid,’ officers barged into Taylor’s apartment in Louisville, Kentucky, as she lay sleeping, and fired multiple rounds.” From...
by Aya de Leon | Sep 21, 2020 | Personal Essays, Uncategorized
The death of Ruth Bader Gisburg is blow. Especially right now, as we are attempting to wrestle this nation from the grip of misogynist white supremacy and stop the slide into authoritarian government. RBG represented a strong voice—although sometimes a lone voice—for...
by Aya de Leon | Sep 17, 2020 | Poetry
“Everything this year is about who gets to breathe.” -Elizabeth Stark As the 20th century African American poet Claude McKay said of lynchings, “if we must die,” let us not die like penned hogs. let us nobly die, So that our...
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