Ekphrastic Poetry: Celda #6
By Bailey Pittenger Celda #6 What are the consequences of silence? I painted you on my wall/you are painted on the wall behind streamers; imprisoned in shadow. You silhouette […]
Ekphrastic Poetry: 43
By Nichole Riggs 43 It was the state of the dawn mountains of garbage masked in balaclavas of flame It was the state of curtains hanged in the mayor’s foyer, […]
Ekphrastic Poetry: Homes as Prisons
By Luis Lopez-Maldonado Homes within homes Ripe fruit in weaved baskets On the floor, wooden floors, Dirty floors, Mexican floors, Look! Framed faces next to Jesus covered candles, A […]
Mexican mothers confront state authorities: Government officials are complicit in the disappearance of their children
Guest Post by Historian Elizabeth O’Brien Javier Duarte, the unpopular governor of Veracruz, recently visited the city of Orizaba. He intended to record video footage for his upcoming state address, […]
Así fue crecer en: Saltillo por Caracol López Colunga
Voces del noreste mexicano / Voices of the Mexican Northeast editada por Mario Nicolás Castro. En la introducción de su libro, La guerra de los Zetas: viaje por la frontera de la necropolitica (The […]
El tren de ayer pasará mañana por Efrén Ordóñez Garza
Esta semana inauguramos nuestra nueva sección: Voces del noreste mexicano / Voices of the Mexican Northeast editada por Mario Nicolás Castro. En la introducción de su libro, La guerra de los […]
Sneak peek: installation underway at the Snite Museum
We’re excited to announce that the soft opening of Counter-Archives to the Narco-City is this Sunday, August 16 at the Snite Museum of Art. Artist Adriana Corral began installing Within […]
When Language Loses Its Bite by Zahir Janmohamed
Many years ago when I was a teaching assistant to the celebrated poet June Jordan at UC Berkeley, she gave me a piece of advice to help me weed through the pile of student submissions we received: if it is abstract, throw it out. I thought she was joking but then she handed me a one page sheet of “no-no words” that she prohibited students from using. The list included words like “racism,” “oppression,” and “loneliness.”
When Drugs Were Legal in Mexico by Froylán Enciso
When drugs were legalized in Mexico, Lola la Chata (“Snub-Nose Lola”) was furious. She’d been pushing in Mexico City since, well, forever, but “narcotics” sales on the part of the government, at market rates, messed up the whole racket. Two days after they opened the heroin dispensaries, the junkies stopping buying from her. There was little she could do, except […]
Catalog’s Sneak Peek: Adriana Corral: Mexico, or the Impossibility of Representation by Luis Vargas-Santiago
The night of November 20, 2014, hundreds of thousands of citizens gathered peacefully in central Mexico City in order to claim justice for the enforced disappearance of 43 Ayotzinapa rural student teachers near Iguala, in the southwestern Mexican state of Guerrero. At some point during the night, a massive bonfire occurred in center of Mexico City’s Zócalo […]
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