[su_label type=”info”]Column: The Devil’s Advocate[/su_label] This past week I conducted some rather unscientific research among my Latino and Latina friends. I also bothered a few strangers, from various ages and backgroundsâteachers, musicians, ice cream vendors, flower vendors, real intellectuals, pseudo intellectuals, non-intellectuals. American all, from the entire continent: North, Central and South. The San Francisco […]
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SF reacts to Trump’s threat to ban trans from military
[su_carousel source=”media: 34911,34912,34913,34914,34915,34916,34921,34918,34919,34920″ limit=”65″ link=”lightbox” target=”blank” width=”800″ height=”540″ responsive=”no” items=”1″] On the morning of July 26, Americans with smartphones were greeted by multiple notifications announcing President Donald Trumpâs intent to ban transgender people from the military. A Facebook group known as âThe Resistanceâ quickly took to social media to announce it would host an âemergency […]
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Meet the queer Latina helping diversify tech
[su_label type=”info”]Column: Latinoâs Redefining Tech[/su_label] [su_carousel source=”media: 34903,34904,34905,34906″ limit=”65″ link=”lightbox” target=”blank” width=”800″ height=”540″ responsive=”no” items=”1″] While Celine Cuevas came out as gay in high schoolâbecoming the âface of gay studentsâ and working with other groups across Los Angeles to provide resources to the LGBTQ young adult communityâshe was not explicitly out about her sexuality at […]
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Burden of the Beast: capturing the odyssey of Central American migrants
[su_label type=”info”]Column: Centrospective[/su_label] [su_carousel source=”media: 34896,34897,34898,34899″ limit=”65″ link=”lightbox” target=”blank” width=”800″ height=”540″ responsive=”no” items=”1″] I can count the times Iâve gone to El Salvador on one hand: once when I was a baby (at the peak of the war); a second time when I was like 9 or 10; once again when I went for the […]
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Mixed media art exhibition captures the nostalgia of 24th Street
[su_carousel source=”media: 34846,34847,34848,34849,34850,34851,34852,34853,34854,34855,34856″ limit=”65″ link=”lightbox” target=”blank” width=”800″ height=”540″ responsive=”no” items=”1″] Walking down 24th Street today, it is evident that the Mission has changed drastically over the last decade. While the neighborhood has been heavily gentrified by wealthy developers and oblivious newcomers, the strength of the community remains in its people. Itâs the artists, activists and […]
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Pumping the brakes: Calle 24 tells Ford bike-share program to stay in its lane
The Calle 24 Latino Cultural District Council recently rejected plans to build âbike shareâ stations sponsored by Ford Motor Company along 24h Street. El Tecolote asked Calle 24 President and Co-founder Erick Arguello to explain the decision, which has provoked backlash from some San Francisco residents. âWe are doing what we were elected to do,â […]
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Mexican Museum defends its legitimacy, corrects journalistsâ inaccurate reporting
Earlier this month, San Franciscoâs Mexican Museum found itself at the center of controversy after Mission Local ran a story with a misleading headline suggesting that most of the museumâs pre-Hispanic collection was âinsignificant or fake.â Mission Localâs story was the sole source cited in stories by numerous media outlets across the United States and […]
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Youth activists fight to give immigrants with criminal histories a second chance
[su_carousel source=”media: 34831,34832,34833″ limit=”65″ link=”lightbox” target=”blank” width=”800″ height=”540″ responsive=”no” items=”1″] In an era where immigrants with criminal histories are being used to justify targeting undocumented communities, one activist is striving to become a voice for all undocumented immigrants, including those with criminal pasts. Wei Lee, a community organizer with ASPIRE (Asian Students Promoting Immigrant Rights […]
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Opinion: Elotero incident proves complexity of Latinx identity
Earlier this week a video went viral of an Argentine man, Carlos Hakas, attacking Benjamin Ramirez, an elotero, and violently overturning his cart for âblocking the sidewalkâ in Hollywood, Los Angeles. In the video, Ramirez points the camera towards himself and can be heard saying that Hakas âis a racist who came to damage my […]
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Annual Urban Youth Arts Festival provides safe space for street artists
[su_carousel source=”media: 34791,34792,34793,34794,34795,34796,34797,34798,34799,34800,34801,34802,34803,34805″ limit=”65″ link=”lightbox” target=”blank” width=”800″ height=”540″ responsive=”no” items=”1″] The smell of fresh paint from spray cans infused the air while the sound of old-school hip-hop beats surrounded the children and their families gathered at Precita Park for the 21st annual Precita Eyes Urban Youth Arts Festival. For the past two decades this festival […]