Category: Writings
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(Re)Performing Initiation, Ancestral Memory, and Prophecy (Artist Essay)
Academic essay on my performance art piece “Dance of the Elephant / The Spirits’ Revenge” (2022)
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“Dominicanidades in Motion” (Art analysis and Interview)
Raelis Vasquez is an artist of movement. In his portraiture paintings, we travel through the senses, accepting a subtle invitation to imagine and feel subjects that refuse physical or temporal constraint.
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The Death of a Puerto Rican Lie (Essay)
While desperation is brewing in Puerto Rico after Hurricane María, anger is reaching a boiling point in its Diaspora.
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“Watching Me in My Dreams”: (Film Review of “The Files”)
The Puerto Rican documentary The Files (Las Carpetas) offer us a small glimpse of life under a police state.
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Diaspora Dreams (Essay)
To have our people, the islanders, and the rest of the world, read our pains and adversities, our hopes and dreams, our intellect and accomplishments.
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Let’s Deport Everyone!? (Reporting)
Decades of a broken system that deports and separates thousands of families that have undocumented and documented members.
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All Hail The Boricua Diaspora (Essay)
La Respuesta magazine exists to (re)claim the Diaspora’s place in an expanded Puerto Rican nation and to counter the negative portrayal of us in mainstream media and U.S. cultural productions.
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Boricuascape (Creative nonfiction)
Displacement in Graham Avenue in Bushwhick should be just as important to Clark Avenue in Cleveland or Park Street in Hartford, because they all inhabit a vast Boricuascape.
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Speak the Truth and Set the Path (Essay)
“Thus, to struggle is to envision what seems impossible: a liberated future.“
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A Decaying Boricua Diaspora (Essay)
We continue to face high levels of poverty and low levels of formal education, exacerbated by the destruction and displacement of our historic centers and a psyche of inferiority.
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Behold, The Boricua Diaspora (Essay)
If we construct a New Boricua Diaspora aesthetic we can, with greater clarity, understand who we are and map out possible directions.
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From Barrio Dream to Nightmare, But With Hope (Reporting)
In 2005, a real estate developer sought to buy his and his parents’ property and when they refused, he bought the home that was sandwiched between their two properties, demolished it, and constructed a huge condominium.
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The Students Are the Guardians of a Radical Past (Reporting & Analysis)
What began in April as a call for a 48-hour student strike at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR), Río Piedras campus, is now reaching its second month.
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To Study and to Struggle (Reporting & Analysis)
Hundreds of students and staff even occupied, for a time, the Río Piedras campus until Riot Police, at the insistence of the Chancellor, forcefully removed them.
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Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Challenge Anything (Opinion)
The end result will not be true societal transformation or liberation for LGBTQ people, but the promotion of politics of assimilation that do not represent or address the interests of much of the “community.”
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Love in the Time of Migration (Play Review)
The Puerto Rican playwright José Rivera, who with his recent play Boleros for the Disenchanted, has come as close as anyone to portraying the surreal 20th century Puerto Rican experience.
Xavi Burgos 