A Xicana Maestra on Politics, Education, y mas
March 24, 2026 Hello everyone, I’m Quetzal Sanchez, yes, Irene Sanchez’s son. I am writing to you all to address the current drama that has been going on because of a certain someone who has skid marks in his underwear, yeah, you know who you are. I just wanted to say that I am not … Continue reading An Archive of Violence: Notes from a Child Survivor (Part 3)
An Archive of Violence: Notes from a Survivor (Part 2) Irene SanchezXicana Ph.D. I breath in and out. My heart rate has been up for hours today (3/24), ever since all of this. For years. But really yesterday when I found out yesterday afternoon that the poet had contacted my current job when I got … Continue reading An Archive of Violence: Notes From a Survivor (Part 2)
An Archive of Violence: Notes From a SurvivorBy Irene SanchezXicana Ph.D. Trigger warning. This whole post has stories/details and audio recording that can be triggering to survivors of SA, DV, and violence in general. Proceed with caution and care for yourself. I don't know what to title this. I am unsure where to begin. So … Continue reading An Archive of Violence: Notes From a Survivor
Reflections on Resistance and Love in Times of Violence and Terror By Irene Sanchez, Ph.D. Xicana Ph.D. I've been reflecting and sitting with myself for a year since I last wrote here in the summer of 2024. After surviving terror in my own life for many years from the most horrific physical assault of my … Continue reading Reflections on Resistance and Love in Times of Violence and Terror
By Irene SanchezXicana Ph.D. The first time I heard the song "Not Like Us" by Kendrick Lamar, the lines that stood out to me the most were the ones in the title of this blog post "No, you not a colleague, you a fuckin' colonizer". I heard the song around the time I was going … Continue reading “No, You Not a Colleague, You a … Colonizer”
Xicana Ph.D. No one has called me a no sabo kid (or adult). If anyone has they’ve never said it to my face. I would sometimes joke my Spanish was pocha style with people who knew me, but no one ever called me a pocha either. I was unsure if it was the same thing. … Continue reading No Sabo Kid: A Second Generation Story from the Granddaughter of Immigrants
By Irene SanchezXicana Ph.D. When I began teaching Latino studies, I wasn’t surprised when I picked up a U.S. history textbook to see how many times Latinos were mentioned in the book. That school year, the U.S. history books were brand new in our district and as I combed through it to see if there … Continue reading New Report Shows Latino History is Left Out of U.S. History Textbooks
By Irene Sanchez During the East LA walkouts that took place in early March 1968, thousands of students from five East LA high schools demanded classes that focused on their culture, Latino teachers and administrators, use of the restroom during lunch and other demands they presented to the Los Angeles Unified School District’s school board. … Continue reading The Struggle to Learn Our Histories in U.S. Schools 55 years after the East LA Walkouts
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