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A Quick Note Monday Morning Note from Mala
4:50 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Events|Immigration|Media|media justice|New York City · 1 Comment
3 May 2010Hola VivirLatino familia! I’m writing this post before the sun rises over St. Petersburg, Florida where I’m at for the week gracias a Poynter. I’m here as a Sensemaking 2010 Fellow, which brings together a group of diverse media makers to talk about the business and ethics of media making.
I know this won’t be of huge interest to most of our readers, pero it should be interesting for many reasons.
I’m editing videos and fotos from the May Day rally and march here Union Square so that should be up soon. Across the country thousands marched and raised their voices against the hateful SB1070 and other Arizona measures and also against an immigration reform proposal built on the same enforcement rhetoric that has turned deadly and dangerous for our comunidades.
Do you have fotos and videos from May Day pro-migrante events you attended? If you would like to share them with the VivirLatino community let us know at info@vivirlatino.com.
Amor y lucha
Cuéntame Algo
18 Feb 2010
Just a quick note of thanks to the folks over at the Cuéntame project. Last night I had a great conversation with them about VivirLatino, media, activism and claro Latinidad.
I’ll let you all know when the video is up.
VivirLatino’s Live Blogging of President Obama’s State of the Union Address
7:32 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Events|Politics · 2 Comments
27 Jan 2010It’s been a minute since we’ve done a liveblogging of an event here at VivirLatino. Since We have covered in depth the Obama presidency from the campaign promises to their fulfullment (or not), I figured that hosting a live chat here would be fun.
So come and join us here tonite at 8:45 EST. The actual State of the Union Address is at 9 pm EST pero we’ll start serving drinks a little earlier to get warmed up.
Invite your friends, please note however that la Mala enforces a strict door policy.
VivirLatino’s la Mala Speaking at Organizing 2.0 in NYC This Saturday
10:35 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Events|Immigration|Internet|media justice|New York City · 2 Comments
1 Dec 2009
Before I was a blogger, I was a young activist. The transition from being “in the trenches” so to speak, to blogging hasn’t been an easy one and a large part of it is due to my status as a single mami. I needed to (and still do) be realistic as to my capacities. Pero deep down I still want to be down on the ground and in the calles. So part of my goal as a blogger has been to make connections between this online media work and what is happening on the ground. Which is why I’m very excited to be participating this weekend in the Organizing 2.0 Conference.
Is online organizing really ‘organizing’? That’s a challenging question for those of us from a labor or community organizing background. That said, online organizing has received a lot of positive attention recently in connection with the presidential elections. What does this mean for our organizations? What skills do we need to share to make the most of no-longer-new online tools for our campaigns in New York?
I’m on a panel on with some of my blogamigos. The panel is People of color/immigrant/non English online organizing (how’s that for a catch-all?). On the panel with me are Liza Sabater from Culture Kitchen/Daily Gotham and Jackie Mahendra from America’s Voice. Not on my panel pero equally una amiga in the struggle is Rachel LaBruyere from Reform Immigration for America who is heading a workshop on mobile phone activism.
The conference is relatively affordable, so if you are in the NYC area this Saturday come through, learn, support, and represent.
VivirLatino’s la Mala Reading Tonite at Bluestockings NYC
8:07 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Events|Lo Que Hay|Media|New York City|VivirLatino · 1 Comment
18 Sep 2009
If you’re in the Lower East Side of NYC tonite, stop in at Bluestockings where I’ll be reading a poetic history of my life in the mami’hood as part of the Mama Storytelling Salon. Other Mama’s who will be reading tonite are Jennifer Silverman, Kerry Cohen, & Vikki Law. The reading is set to jump off at 7pm.
30 Days of Latino Heritage : An Introduction
11:44 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Culture|history|holidays|Internet|language|Latin America|Media|Politics|VivirLatino · 2 Comments
15 Sep 2009
30 Days of Latino Heritage : Introduction from VivirLatino on Vimeo.
An introduction to the 30 Days of Latino Heritage Series on VivirLatino.com featured Maegan “la Mamita Mala” Ortiz.
VivirLatino Familia Grows Just in Time for Latino Heritage Month
6:02 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Arts|Movies|Music|VivirLatino · 1 Comment
15 Sep 2009
You know us Latino families and how we just keep multiplying. In honor of Hispanic er Latino Heritage Month (mas on that later), I would like to an announce an addition to the VivirLatino familia.
Please manda saludos and show some love to Ms. Bianca Laureano.
Bianca I. Laureano is the daughter of an artist and educator. As a first generation Puerto Rican sexologist living in NYC, she was raised in the Washington, DC area in an activist environment and is a product of the public school system. In the field of sexuality for over a decade, Bianca has worked with and taught youth of Color, working class communities, national and international organizations advocating sex-positive social justice agendas. She has presented both locally and internationally on various topics concerning activism, Latino sexual health, feminisms, youth and hip-hop culture, Latinos and race, curriculum development, and teaching popular culture.
Bianca is an instructor with CUNY and a freelance writer with Amplify Your Voice as the Media Justice columnist. She hosts the website LatinoSexuality.com and identifies as a LatiNegra, activist, sex-positive, pro-choice femme. Find out more about Bianca by visiting her website www.BiancaLaureano.com
Bianca is joining VivirLatino as our new music and film editor and will be doing reviews for us starting este mes. We look forward to her voice and perspective.
VL’s La Mala Hitting the Calle Hoy
5:56 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Education|Events|youth · 1 Comment
6 May 2009I won’t be doing much posting today and it’s not because I’m nursing a Cinco de Mayo hangover.
I’m spending the day speaking to some high school students about media and identity politics.
So while I go to shape young minds, portanse bien.
From the VivirLatino WTF Files
6:27 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Funny|VivirLatino · 1 Comment
26 Mar 2009
Late last night I was reading through some of the site’s stats and I always like to see how people get to our site including keywords.
Now I’m used to the keyword analysis stats that show that many people stumble upon our site while looking for Latino themed porn and are bummed that all the searches for tetas are about me breastfeeding or breast cancer.
Pero last night’s keywords have me saying wtf.
For example: “Why do mexicans do their children’s hair so ugly?”
Huh? And that person came to VL not once pero twice.
and
“What did the latins still from the black man?”
I think it’s steal pero really? That would explain some of our comments.
Hola!
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A Reminder : Nasty Comments will be Deleted
8:31 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Internet|VivirLatino · Comments Off
16 Sep 2009If your idea of disagreeing with a post is insulting or name calling, your comments will be deleted. And yes obviously it’s a subjective call, pero that’s the joy in this being my blog