If next time would be the fire, then that time is already here. We opened this year with a white, north American tourist setting fire to local businesses in Cabo Rojo, then fleeing back to the states. A few days later the Los Angeles area wildfires started burning. By the end of the month, two new administrations, here and there, had taken office and were burning everything down.
Honoring our Indigenous and African Abuelas
a reflection on rematriation, birth, source and the black and brown ancestral matriarchs charged with the possibility of our existence here today.