I wrote this to acknowledge what many of us are feeling and what groups of parents have shared is true for them. Parenting while preparing for potential ICE abductions in my community has been very challenging. I also have family members who are undocumented and the fear is visceral for me and had brought my lineage’s ancestral trauma of displacement right to the surface.
I’ve committed to trying to be as intentional as possible in navigating my emotional states, my needs, and I’ve found myself needing my tools for regulation more than if this wasn’t happening to our communities.
Confidence and community in these conversations is EVERYTHING.
This is exactly the conversation we will be getting into THIS WEEKEND. This month, we will be hosting another round of ✌🏽 of our favorite workshops: What to Tell the Children, hosted by LP founder @LesliePriscilla (Sat 7/12), AND Teach Them Young (Sat 7/26), hosted by source
I’ve committed to trying to be as intentional as possible in navigating my emotional states, my needs, and I’ve found myself needing my tools for regulation more than if this wasn’t happening to our communities.
Confidence and community in these conversations is EVERYTHING.
This is exactly the conversation we will be getting into THIS WEEKEND. This month, we will be hosting another round of ✌🏽 of our favorite workshops: What to Tell the Children, hosted by LP founder @LesliePriscilla (Sat 7/12), AND Teach Them Young (Sat 7/26), hosted by source
FLASHBACK FRIDAY Y’ALL! 😂
For real though, being the child of immigrants is a wild ass ride. The level of responsibly. 😮💨 Whew, that shit sucked so bad sometimes. Recently I was going through an old storage bin that my mom had in her parking garage storage and found a form for a food stamps application that I had filled out when I was probably 10 or 12. Really, really. My handwriting was a CHILD’S. If I wasn’t already on my knees sorting through papers, it probably would’ve brought me to my knees. Oh mi Prisci, mi niña interior, my heart grieves for so many moments of your lost childhood!! 😭
See, if this wasn’t your experience because your parents could read and write English, maybe you won’t get it. 🤷🏽♀️ But for those of us who grew up and were asked to be the family secretary from the time we were literate, well, it feels complicated and it really be like that for so many of us. 🤢
I know, too, that there are STILL kids doing this for their parents. Shit, I’M STILL doing this for my parents. It’s every other week my mom walks in with a stack of papers “Ayudame con pestos papeles que no les entiendo.” And tbh, a veces yo tampoco still because I’m an English Language Learner STILL 😂
But we go on and we help and we do what we can to have compassion for our parents’ experiences, even though it makes our throats knotted up. 🥺
Big hugs if this was your experience. Big hugs to all the kids out there still using their Number 2 pencils from their backpacks to fill out forms and translate documents for their parents. ABRAZOTES to your inner niñes too. 🫂💞✨
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For real though, being the child of immigrants is a wild ass ride. The level of responsibly. 😮💨 Whew, that shit sucked so bad sometimes. Recently I was going through an old storage bin that my mom had in her parking garage storage and found a form for a food stamps application that I had filled out when I was probably 10 or 12. Really, really. My handwriting was a CHILD’S. If I wasn’t already on my knees sorting through papers, it probably would’ve brought me to my knees. Oh mi Prisci, mi niña interior, my heart grieves for so many moments of your lost childhood!! 😭
See, if this wasn’t your experience because your parents could read and write English, maybe you won’t get it. 🤷🏽♀️ But for those of us who grew up and were asked to be the family secretary from the time we were literate, well, it feels complicated and it really be like that for so many of us. 🤢
I know, too, that there are STILL kids doing this for their parents. Shit, I’M STILL doing this for my parents. It’s every other week my mom walks in with a stack of papers “Ayudame con pestos papeles que no les entiendo.” And tbh, a veces yo tampoco still because I’m an English Language Learner STILL 😂
But we go on and we help and we do what we can to have compassion for our parents’ experiences, even though it makes our throats knotted up. 🥺
Big hugs if this was your experience. Big hugs to all the kids out there still using their Number 2 pencils from their backpacks to fill out forms and translate documents for their parents. ABRAZOTES to your inner niñes too. 🫂💞✨
PS— if you don’t already, follow! And if you do follow, comment “GUIDE” to get our FREE Roots & Fruits of Chancla Culture guide and see what else we have going on in the movement to #EndChanclaCulture 🌱
#LatinxParenting #EndChanclaCulture #RaisingFutureAncestors #DecolonizeOurFamilias #IJustWantMiGenteToHeal #TheCycleStopsConmigo #ParentingReels #Parenting #LatinoParents #GentleParenting #ParentingIsHard #GrowingUpLatino #GrowingUphispanic #childrenofimmigrants
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Tumblr user ryan-sometimes:
It confuses me how normalized it is to be so anti human. The fact that two countries voted no to food being a human right. The fact so many people are against universal healthcare. The fact that it’s normal to believe some people don’t deserve housing because they’re poor, addicts, mentally ill, or any combination of the above. I find it so hard to comprehend that humans who have experienced hunger, thirst, cold, and illness would wish these things upon others, or at the very least not care. It frustrates me beyond belief.
These are the exact values we’re taught as children, to believe all humans are equal in worth and needs, and yet at some point you’re expected to grow out of that illusion. You’re expected to accept that this is what life’s like, that the world is unfair, and attempting to fix it makes you weak and childish. source
It confuses me how normalized it is to be so anti human. The fact that two countries voted no to food being a human right. The fact so many people are against universal healthcare. The fact that it’s normal to believe some people don’t deserve housing because they’re poor, addicts, mentally ill, or any combination of the above. I find it so hard to comprehend that humans who have experienced hunger, thirst, cold, and illness would wish these things upon others, or at the very least not care. It frustrates me beyond belief.
These are the exact values we’re taught as children, to believe all humans are equal in worth and needs, and yet at some point you’re expected to grow out of that illusion. You’re expected to accept that this is what life’s like, that the world is unfair, and attempting to fix it makes you weak and childish. source
Tumblr user kaity--did:
It's the internet's millennial mom back here again with an extremely unpopular opinion that I need you all to internalize:
There are no food rules, ESPECIALLY when you're just feeding yourself.
The internet (and specifically TikTok, Pinterest, etc) has become obsessed with beautifully plated meals that follow certain conventions. It's all bullshit.
Crack your pasta in half before you put in the pot. Put BBQ sauce on your salad. Do whatever the hell you need to do to get nutrients into your body. The only rule is you need to eat. source
It's the internet's millennial mom back here again with an extremely unpopular opinion that I need you all to internalize:
There are no food rules, ESPECIALLY when you're just feeding yourself.
The internet (and specifically TikTok, Pinterest, etc) has become obsessed with beautifully plated meals that follow certain conventions. It's all bullshit.
Crack your pasta in half before you put in the pot. Put BBQ sauce on your salad. Do whatever the hell you need to do to get nutrients into your body. The only rule is you need to eat. source
Tumblr user ubernegro:
Reading about the WTO protests in Seattle sets a few precedents and a lot of lessons we can learn from.
1. Police lose nothing from stirring unrest. In fact, they gain more than they lose. In the case of the WTO, SPD were annoyed with the police chief and mayor doing an anti-police corruption probe in a historically corrupt SPD prior to then so they outright ignored the order from the mayor and the police chief to not engage protesters.
2. The Black Bloc worked in coordination with direct action organizers. Due to groundwork being laid out weeks prior to the meeting, protesters with different tactics and levels of resistance tolerance were able to confer with one another. The Bloc’s specific function was to reinforce and back up non-violent protests when police aggressed the situation. source
Reading about the WTO protests in Seattle sets a few precedents and a lot of lessons we can learn from.
1. Police lose nothing from stirring unrest. In fact, they gain more than they lose. In the case of the WTO, SPD were annoyed with the police chief and mayor doing an anti-police corruption probe in a historically corrupt SPD prior to then so they outright ignored the order from the mayor and the police chief to not engage protesters.
2. The Black Bloc worked in coordination with direct action organizers. Due to groundwork being laid out weeks prior to the meeting, protesters with different tactics and levels of resistance tolerance were able to confer with one another. The Bloc’s specific function was to reinforce and back up non-violent protests when police aggressed the situation. source