by Aya de Leon | Jun 25, 2020 | Audio/Visual, Opinion, Personal Essays
The text of this spoken word piece was originally published by The Acentos Review, a quarterly literary and arts journal that promotes and publishes Latinx work, in their June 19 issue, titled Black and Glorious: Towards Black Liberation. For so many of us Black...
by Aya de Leon | Jun 22, 2020 | Audio/Visual
my latest visual musings on Black People and the Climate Movement…
by Aya de Leon | Jun 18, 2020 | Audio/Visual, Personal Essays
I have no training as a filmmaker, no real equipment, and not much time to make videos. And it shows! But social media isn’t about the quality of the work, it’s about the message and its ability to resonate with people. I LOVE Angie Powers’ video...
by Aya de Leon | May 28, 2020 | Audio/Visual
my latest visual musings on Black People and the Climate Movement…
by Aya de Leon | May 26, 2020 | Audio/Visual, Personal Essays
My twitter feed blew up over the weekend. The Lily ran a story about how women are losing professional ground in the pandemic. They titled/subtitled the piece, “‘I had to choose being a mother’: With no child care or summer camps, women are being edged out of the...
by Aya de Leon | May 21, 2020 | Audio/Visual, Personal Essays
As the weeks march forward, I continue to shelter-in-place with my family. This past weekend, we had a media first. I let my kid binge-watch an entire season of Netflix over the weekend. She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Season 5 (the finale!) For anyone unfamiliar,...
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