Lola Rosario

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Men and women can be friends. We just have to value friendship as much as we do relationships. ~ Angela M Moore 316…In early January, someone responded to one of my relationship articles with “I heard somewhere that men and women can’t be friends.”It got me thinking about this notion some folks in society hold about how heterosexual persons of the opposite sex can never truly be friends — at least not in the platonic sense of the word.

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Member-only storyBORIKEN | RESISTANCEBecause today, some folks insist on sleepingLola Rosario·FollowPublished inThe Resistance Room·3 min read·--Image: Alberto Bigoni on UnsplashTenemos que continuar, aunque nos tome cien años. ~ Blanca Canales Torresola, Social Worker, Revolutionary Leader, and Freedom Fighter (kidnapped/imprisoned for 17 years)Today marks the 70th anniversary of an event that still polarizes this treasured land my soul knows was always home.