Do you remember the New Mythos Tour? Vivir Latino has been keeping you updated on the tour that features the mamihood as it plays out throughout the US.

Well, I just read the latest update. It’s so connected to the latest violence in Arizona–it’s a beautiful and haunting example of how the personal is political…

As an immigrant kid, a transnational/transracial adoptee who spent 8 years in my homeland Guatemala before moving to the U.S., my adoptive family and I would travel across the Mexico border frequently, with, as you can imagine, not so much difficulty. It hurt my heart to see the new 100/150 ft. fences up and know that communities who relied on being able to cross, and who had been giving their labor to the U.S. for so long now, were facing the new obstacles of trying to find adequate housing, employment and other necessities because of these walls. Their labor expendable and their identities exploitable, we have waged war on individuals instead of the systems and corporations that continue to dehumanize entire communities. Only now, we call it a war on terrorism and justify this as a means to keep us/US safe, when for years we relied on this form of labor and, honestly, we still do.

Read the whole thing!