We Will Get Through A Trump Presidency Together
Disappointment doesn’t mean resignation. Setback doesn’t mean defeat.
Rigoberto González is the author of thirteen books of poetry and prose and the editor of Camino del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino Literature. He is the recipient of Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, winner of the American Book Award, The Poetry Center Book Award, The Shelley Memorial Award of The Poetry Society of America, and a grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts. He is contributing editor for Poets & Writers Magazine, on the executive board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle, and is associate professor of English at Rutgers-Newark, the State University of New Jersey.
Disappointment doesn’t mean resignation. Setback doesn’t mean defeat.
As a gay Latino man I know there are few safe spaces for me, but Latin night always felt like a solace.
Tony Diaz, the man behind the Librotraficante (or "book trafficker") Movement, talks about smuggling banned books into Arizona and fighting to keep Chicano literature in American schools.
Unputdownable books that speak to Chicano politics, identity, and culture.
As a gay Latino man I know there are few safe spaces for me, but Latin night always felt like a solace.