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I finished the Avon Walk NYC 2008!!

Posted by: emagineitall on: October 5, 2008

I made it over the finish line. I didn’t do the full 39.5 miles due to some problems, but I did about 35 or so and walked over the finish line today!!
Follow me through me through my walk on my boobie blog: anauruburo.wordpress.com

Is it just me? Or is a revolution brewing?

Posted by: emagineitall on: November 8, 2007

I’ve been catching up on my race fix with the Addicted to Race podcast and in one episode Carmen was discussing Jena Six and the media with Baratunde. They talked about how the blogosphere, in this case the blackosphere or bloggers-of-colorsphere, kept the Jena story alive, beating out the mainstream media. Exposing these kinds of [...]

Change can be so touching and fulfilling

Posted by: emagineitall on: September 25, 2007

Thanks to MiSS CRiP CHiCK!

key phrases: “cannot support separate but equal” and “enlightenment, equality and justice”
…could not bring myself to tell an entire group of people in our community they were less important, less worthy, less deserving to the rights and responsibilities of marriage than anyone else, simply because of their [...]

Protest against pity: Anti-Telethon Blogswarm

Posted by: emagineitall on: September 3, 2007

The first annual Anti-Telethon Blogswarm hosted by Kara and led by Miss Crip Chick is up. I don’t know much about this issue myself but I am learning now! You can too.
I have to admit that sometimes I feel uncomfortable with disability, which is proof of the “pity model” in society that these girls are [...]

Some thoughts on social responsibility and empowerment

Posted by: emagineitall on: August 28, 2007

Pardon my absence, but I was gone for a few days. Yes very lucky me went to Paris. Mi esposo querido surprised me for my birthday. It still amazes me the luck I’ve had in this short life. What more can be left?
I’ve been catching up on news and blogs today and there are so [...]


A blog by a latina social scientist and activist

Equal rights was the first step. Now it's time to change the standards by which we are judged. It's time to create new standards that value our differences rather than degrading and stereotyping them.

We define ourselves in dialogue with the Other. So dialogue already!

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