Kurly Tlapoyawa

Press enter or click to view image in full size It was October 9th in Washington, DC, and the orange-tinted manchild sat hunched in the Oval Office, surrounded by the usual clown show of bootlickers, propagandists, and professional ass-kissers. Cameras clicked away as the stench of urine, Axe body spray, and fascism filled the room.

The colonialist roots of La Virgen de Guadalupe A man crawls during the annual pilgrimage to Tepeyak. Photo by Eman Kazemi / Alamy Stock Photo When Spanish forces under the command of Hernando Cortes first set foot on the eastern coast of Mexico on April 22, 1519, they christened the site of their landing Veracruz, "the true cross" (Cortes et al. 2001:4). Within five years of Cortes' arrival, a group of Franciscan missionaries arrived in Mexico, tasked with converting the previously...

A statue of convicted rapist and murderer Juan de Oñate stands in northern New Mexico The controversy surrounding Española’s celebration of Juan de Oñate recently boiled over when a coalition of community activists and Indigenous rights groups demanded that representations of Oñate be removed from the city’s annual parade. This demand prompted an outcry from a small, but vocal segment of New Mexico’s white hispano community, who saw it as an existential threat to their cherished fiestas.