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So last week, Jocelyn Bresnick and I went to a place downtown called Casa Vicente, a Mexican food restaurant that holds tango dancing every Wednesday night from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Now, when I think of tango dancing, I immediately think of the stereotypical dramatic side to side, Addams-familyesque gliding across the floor, with […]
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Awk City.
So, the other night I went on a date with a guy, we’ll call him Eduardo for purposes of this blog. He was Mexican. As my friend Marcy Jones would say, it was “awk city.” He picked me up to go out for dinner. He kept telling me he wanted to take me out for […]
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Body Image & Latina Women
So I am sitting here at my computer, thinking about what to write about. I casually click on another tab to purposefully distract myself. It’s a website called TheSkinnyWebsite.com. It’s a blog that has recent and up to date pictures of celebrities who have gained weight, lost weight, are fat, skinny, have cellulite, etc. All […]
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Sex Appeal in Ballet Folklorico?
Imagine a hybrid of the Chiquita Banana lady and Selena Quintanilla-Pérez shimmying center stage. This was just one performance at the Ballet Folklorico performance at the Tucson Convention Center. Several weekends ago, Jocelyn Bresnick and I went to the performance in the Leo Rich Theater for a story. The group is called Ballet Folklorico Tapatio […]
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What’s In a Label?
So Jocelyn Bresnick and myself just finished a slideshow story on a woman who is from Nogales and has just recently told her mother she has a girlfriend. I know, lesbian, right? That’s what you’re thinking. But in all actuality, she doesn’t consider herself one or the other. And that got me thinking about labels. […]
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You should not get your boyfriends name on your ass because you never know how long it will last. Someone has made or heard a joke like this before and it usually involves the question, “But what if it doesn’t last?” or “What if you two break up? Get a divorce?”. But chicano tattoo artistry […]
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House Rule: No Boys.
She does know about the house rule, right? No boys? I live with a friend of mine and her sister. Their parents own the house and they are from Rio Rico. There is a house rule that I recently learned about and it goes a little something like this: No boys allowed. First, let’s take […]
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My first post
If you couldn’t already tell by the title, my blog is going to focus mainly around sex, dating, relationships and health in the border region. I am very interested in the Latino cultural traditions and how they differ and coincide with essentially “American” traditions. I became interested in this topic when I began to make […]
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Going South of the Border 