[Illustration by Jaycee Felkins — Mara Cavallaro is El Tecolote’s Report for America Corps Member who reports on mental health and healthcare inequality in the Latinx community.] In May of 2020, Dr. Michael Peluso saw his first patient with long COVID at San Francisco General, before long COVID had a name. She was young, he […]
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Brazilians to vote in run-off between far right leader Bolsonaro and progressive candidate Lula
[Photos by Mara Cavallaro; Featured photo: Camila, 24, Quitéria, 22, and Katharina, 22, make the L symbol for Lula.] This past Sunday, October 2, the line at the Brazilian Consulate in San Francisco to vote in the presidential election wrapped around four city blocks. Lula—the beloved former Workers Party President—received 48.4 percent of the vote, […]
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Abortion is Sacred: Native perspectives on the overturning of Roe vs. Wade
[Story by Mara Cavallaro & Olivia Cruz Mayeda; Featured illustration by Sonia López-Chávez — Mara Cavallaro is El Tecolote’s Report for America Corps Member who reports on mental health and healthcare inequality in the Latinx community.] EDITOR’S NOTE: When El Tecolote learned in May via a leaked memo that the extremist right-wing Supreme Court of […]
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Reproductive Justice Without Borders: Lessons from Latin American Organizing
[Story by Mara Cavallaro & Ricardo Gomez; Photo by Alexis Terrazas — Mara Cavallaro is El Tecolote’s Report for America Corps Member who reports on mental health and healthcare inequality in the Latinx community.] In a historic referendum earlier this month, Chileans voted against a redrafted constitution that would have addressed the climate crisis, recognized […]
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Kaiser therapists strike to demand better patient care
[Mara Cavallaro is El Tecolote’s Report for America Corps Member who reports on mental health & healthcare inequality in the Latinx community. Photos by Jeremy Word] On Monday August 15, more than 2,000 Kaiser mental health clinicians went on strike in Northern California and the Central Valley to demand the work conditions necessary to provide […]
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988 mental health hotline may be flawed, but it’s safer than calling 911
[Mara Cavallaro is El Tecolote’s Report for America Corps Member who reports on mental health & healthcare inequality in the Latinx community.] On a Wednesday afternoon in August, five in-person phone operators wait for a call to Alameda Crisis Support Services in Oakland. It’s one volunteer’s second day, and another’s 24th year. They sit at […]
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988: A step towards transforming mental healthcare in California
[Mara Cavallaro is El Tecolote’s Report for America Corps Member who reports on mental health & healthcare inequality in the Latinx community.] California has repeatedly failed people who struggle with mental health and whose families call for help. In 2020, when Angelo Quinto’s family dialed 911 from Antioch for emergency assistance, police arrived on the […]
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Despite denial, COVID is still here — and so is our grief
[Mara Cavallaro is El Tecolote’s Report for America Corps Member who reports on mental health and healthcare inequality in the Latinx community; lead photo: Kristin Urquiza, co-founder of the SF-based pandemic justice organization Marked By Covid, poses for a portrait while holding an image of her and her father, Mark. In June of 2020, Mark […]
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After 10-week strike, therapists reach agreement with Kaiser
[Mara Cavallaro is El Tecolote’s Report for America Corps Member who reports on mental health and healthcare inequality in the Latinx community; photo by Jeremy Word] In August, El Tecolote reported on Kaiser’s mental health clinician strike, and the long wait times, high turnover rates, and inadequate multilingual care policies that prompted it. Last Tuesday, […]