Category: Writings
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“Dominicanidades in Motion, with artist Raelis Vasquez”
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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“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. It gives us a quick glance of politically-motivated persecution; a multi-character montage of those who dared to speak of or work towards justice, equality, and freedom.
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Boricuascape
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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Behold, The Boricua Diaspora
If we construct a New Boricua Diaspora aesthetic we can, with greater clarity, understand who we are and map out possible directions.