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🗓️ 6 January 2020
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Revolutionary poet Wendy Trevino (@prolpo) talks about writing and fighting.
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0:00.0 | And I'm going to Well, so why don't you introduce yourself? Who are you? |
0:37.0 | Oh, okay. I am Wendy Trevino. |
0:45.0 | I'm a grant writer, but I'm also, I write poetry and I talk on the internet a lot. |
0:56.0 | I always wonder what I should say. |
0:58.8 | I guess people mostly know me through my writing of poetry and I've written this chat book but it was |
1:10.6 | honestly to me it was my first book called Brazilian is not a race and |
1:15.0 | even though it was the same length as the chat book before it but to me it was my |
1:21.2 | first book anyways and then cruel fiction came out within the last year, |
1:25.8 | September of 2018. |
1:28.4 | So how do you want to be identified though? Because you are a poet, but you're also a grant writer and you're also an |
1:35.4 | activist I don't know yeah yeah yeah what I want okay what do I want to be noticed I would want to be identified as somebody who I guess a you know activist, anarchist, communist, who writes poetry, you know. |
1:56.0 | Not just a professional Salina Hater. |
1:59.0 | No, yeah. |
2:01.0 | Actually, that's not a bad one. Oh yeah. |
2:05.0 | You know like when I first read that so like I watched |
2:09.1 | Selina when I was a kid and I had all these like weird identity issues like I knew it was Indian like I grew up knowing that I was indigenous |
2:17.2 | But we have the last name Estes and yeah, it's like but people would always say like, oh, you know, like as to as they would, you know, |
2:25.2 | Hispanicize or whatever, you know, make that connotation. |
2:28.6 | And so when I saw Salina, I was like, oh, wow, there's like, this brown woman. Am I Mexican? |
2:36.0 | Yeah. |
2:37.0 | We got a problem. |
2:40.0 | Jolanda came the risk of betrayal. |
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