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Continuing the revolutionary love note series with Sandra Cisneros. 

Currently reading “A House of my Own” and relishing on the memories of this amazing chingona elder. Reminding myself of my power, of my magic, always. 

If you’d like to support me and my work check out my art at www.angelicabecerra.bigcartel.com

There’s red on the ceiling and red on the floor, red dripping from the window sills and red globules splattered across the walls. It looks like the artist Anish Kapoor has been let loose with his wax cannon again. But this, in fact, is what the making of Christmas looks like; this is the very heart of the real Santa’s workshop – thousands of miles from the North Pole, in the Chinese city of Yiwu.

Our yuletide myth-making might like to imagine that Christmas is made by rosy-cheeked elves hammering away in a snow-bound log cabin somewhere in the Arctic Circle. But it’s not. The likelihood is that most of those baubles, tinsel and flashing LED lights you’ve draped liberally around your house came from Yiwu, 300km south of Shanghai – where there’s not a (real) pine tree nor (natural) snowflake in sight.

Christened “China’s Christmas village”, Yiwu is home to 600 factories that collectively churn out over 60% of all the world’s Christmas decorations and accessories, from glowing fibre-optic trees to felt Santa hats. The “elves” that staff these factories are mainly migrant labourers, working 12 hours a day for a maximum of £200 to £300 a month – and it turns out they’re not entirely sure what Christmas is.

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2014/dec/19/santas-real-workshop-the-town-in-china-that-makes-the-worlds-christmas-decorations

Decolonize by Pixelina Photography on Flickr.

Brown Rice Family - Believe in yourself @ Trinity College International Hip Hop Festival (2013)

I just wanna say I saw this band playing last night in NYC — and what a great show they hosted!!! The positive energy and the conscious music they play makes you just wanna dance all night long, and more than anything it makes you believe in yourself. Believe that your moves are great, that regardless of what you are going through your path is blissful, that many things are possible and that we are all interconnected. Bless and Love to goodness and consciousness.

Cuteness overload yo. #Kitty that still needs a name. #sleepycat

we’re all interconnected by the beauty and surreal power of our Mother Earth. 

Malala Yousafzai is a true freedom fighter. This is truly inspirational to our world, hoping this stirs our communities all around.

BREAKING: Malala Yousafzai Wins Nobel Peace Prize

Malala, now 17, was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman two years ago in her home country of Pakistan after coming to prominence for her campaigning for education for girls.

She won for what the Nobel committee called her “heroic struggle” for girls’ right to an education.

She is the youngest ever winner of the prize. (x)

We read to know we’re not alone.

― William Nicholson