Lola Rosario

1 month ago | whateverlolawrites.medium.com | Lola Rosario

CONNECTION | LOLA’S LINES Even when times get rough, I’m grateful to be alive! You might be wondering, “Who describes their life as fabulous?” With all the atrocities in the world: femicides continuing here in Borikén (as well as other parts of the world, particularly in Latin American countries), genocides in Sudan, South Sudan, Palestine, government corruption (too many to list), hunger still not eradicated on the planet, China continues to oppress the Uyghurs, Tibetans, Nepalese, religious...

1 month ago | prismreports.org | Lola Rosario

Thirteen days after Hurricane María ravaged our tiny archipelago Puerto Rico, a different kind of disaster made landfall: Donald Trump. At a San Juan church on Oct. 3, 2017, the president, then in his first term, tossed paper towels to a cheering crowd of fanatics. It was like a scene out of a bad comedy, except there was nothing funny about the deadly aftermath of the infamous Category 4 storm.

1 month ago | medium.com | Lola Rosario

Women are powerful and dangerous. ~ Audre Lourde, Writer, Poet, Philosopher, Warrior“Go to school, get a good job, and always have your own money. Never depend on a man for anything.” I was in my late teens when mami first offered her advice. As the only daughter — middle child straddled by her two sons, plus the reality she had finally walked out on her abusive former husband — she wanted me to fully grasp the significance of her words.

1 month ago | medium.com | Lola Rosario

FILM REVIEW | GALICIABecause, doesn’t true love live forever? French novelist and literary critic, Marcel Proust once wrote, “Love is space and time measured by the heart.” For me, this sentiment persisted throughout El secreto del orfebre (The Goldsmith’s Secret in English), the Spanish adaptation of Elia Barceló’s acclaimed novel of the same name. But there’s more here.

2 months ago | medium.com | Lola Rosario

Member-only storyRACISM | COLONIZATION | FIRST NATIONSBecause stolen lands still belong to them!Lola Rosario·FollowPublished inFourth Wave·5 min read·--Andrew James via Unsplash (Lakota Native American Man at Pow Wow ~ South Dakota/June 2018)“They call America the ‘Land of the Free’ because it was stolen and not paid for.” ~ Anonymous onlineSince moving to my ancestral motherland of Borikén (in November 2021), the topic of stolen lands has been on my mind with more frequency.