Articles & Essays
Telefunky
The Writer Magazine, 2020 first place contest winner
When we play Telefunky, it’s just us. Words aren’t Spanish or English, but a language in between. Playing the game is a safe place. My mom didn’t get words wrong, or at least no one told her she did. The game was an inter-dimension. My mom could rest in a place somewhere between a home that she missed and a place where she vigilantly monitored every word she said. It’s a place where she could hold her children and trust they’d hold her without the judgment they were learning in school.
Text, tone & tradition: A Mazahua speaker reconnects with her heritage
Lynda Boudreault, October 5, 2019
Brenda Barrera Lino wants to connect with the doñita selling herbal remedies in the market. She wants to sing original Mazahua songs with her young students. She wants to text her friends in Mazahua. Read my article at Unravel.
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