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He only moved to his own impulses, leaving his wife a cold, lonely and withered woman. This bothered Clarita for years -- how her father treated her mother with a lack of emotion, of connection. Santos never beat her mother, but he would give her a devastating look that caused her to wilt like a water-starved flower. Clarita recalled how as a little girl, she hid away in her room, beneath blankets surrounded by dirt-caked dolls, distressed that Santos would come in and destroy her with such a lo
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― The Republic of East L.A.
― The Republic of East L.A.
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Same for the classic SF novels I grew up reading; Latinos weren't being written about, either. Did we die out in those futures? Did we not make it? Were we purposefully excluded?
Sometimes, we must write ourselves into the futures we want before we're left out of them by someone else.
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― Mexicans on the Moon: Speculative Poetry from a Possible Future
― Mexicans on the Moon: Speculative Poetry from a Possible Future
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