I’ve greatly enjoyed having a platform bed frame! The extra storage is excellent and it’s nice not being able to lose anything under the bed 😅 Purple Mattress has been good to Lily and me!

It’s less a “follow the breadcrumbs” situation and more of a “giant, Vegas-style neon arrow sign pointing directly at what we all expected” kinda deal

Beautiful work, friend! 😍

Haha! Humerus

Have you ever been to an American wedding? Where is the vodka?? Where is marinated herring???

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Thank you to everyone who helped me get here, but especially my loves Dr. Lily Villa and Darryl Pittman - les quiero chingos!! ❤️‍🔥

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…the sciences) becoming more accepting of the validity of Indigenous ways of knowing, including the traditions of Chicano & Mexican curanderismo I carry. It’s especially beautiful and powerful to be part of one of those academic spaces - tlazkamati, notemachtianimeh 🙏🏼

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…the Patiloni Collective, patiloni.org) taught me that we offer ceremony when we’re about to speak on sacred things, and few things are as sacred as death and dying (the subject of my specialty, thanatology). It’s a beautiful and powerful thing to see more and more academic spaces (especially…

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I’m deeply grateful to be part of an academic program where I can openly and proudly wear my curanderismo ceremonial clothing and offer ancestral ceremony as part of my work. My maestras, maestres, and maestros (but especially Doña Patricia Federico of Mi Tierra Healing arts and…