ChicanaRriquena
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Non-Profit |
| Location | Chicago, IL, United States |
| Introduction | I am the simplest and most complex person you'll meet and also the nicest and meanest person. It might depend on my mood or your perception of me. Being of mixed heritage, I embrace dichotomies. Things are more interesting and more beautiful when combined. And being a product of history makes me love reading, learning and talking about it. |
| Interests | reading, thinking, discussing, relaxing |
| Favorite Movies | Como Agua Para Chocolate, I (heart) Huckabees, Pan's Labyrinth, Harold and Maude, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Cluless, Men With Guns, Dark City, Volver, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Lonestar, Heathers, Chicago, Fast Food Nation |
| Favorite Music | Aterciopelados, Cafe Tacuba, Bob Dylan, Willie Colon, Orishas, The Beatles, El Gran Silencio, Rage Against the Machine, Celso Pina, Carlos Vives, Lila Downs, Amparo Ochoa, Jimmy Bosch, Ozomatli |
| Favorite Books | Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas, -Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel, -Downsize This! by Michael Moore, -Woman Hollering Creek by Sandra Cisneros, -The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, -Backlash:The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi, -A Puerto Rican in New York by Jesus Colon, -Selling the Work Ethic by Sharon Beder, -Let it Rain Coffee by Angie Cruz, -The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of -Mexico by Miguel Leon Portilla, -Borderlands/La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldua, -Mexican Lives by Judith Adler Hellman, -When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago, -Working by Studs Terkel, -Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser, -Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy, -Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, -Selling the Work Ethic, -Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley, -Pornography and Silence by Susan Griffin, -Reviving Ophelia by Mary Pipher, -The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, -The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon, -Two or Three Things I know for Sure by Dorothy Allison, -The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joesph Campbell, -Iraq Under Siege: The Deadly Impact of Sanctions and War, -Loving in the War Years by Cherrie L. Moraga, -Terrorism and War by Howard Zinn, -Mexican Village by Josephina Niggli, -AmerRican by Tato Laviera, -Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi, -A Theology of Liberation by Gustavo Gutierrez, -Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy 'Trilogy' (all 5) by Douglas Adams, -The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond, -Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond, -Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond, -Black Indians by William Loren Katz, -Medicine Stories by Aurora Levins Morales, -Marx For Beginners by Ruis and pretty much anything by Rius, -Dirty Girls Social Club by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, -1984 by George Orwell, -Always Running: Gang Days in L.A. by Luis Rodriguez, -The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice, -A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess |
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