Anchor Babies Ahoy!  I touched upon some of my own personal
issues with birthright citizenship, and how from a colonial
perspective it’s complicated but today I wanted to post this
clip and look at how so many white men are discussing the GOP
calls to take back the 14th amendment and how women of color,
women like me and so many of my hermanas and vecinas, are being
talked about instead of talked with or listened to. How our
wombs are worded as weapons of mass destruction and our
beautiful babies as objects stuck into the earth to keep us
here. This dehumanization of some Latina mujeres cuerpos
(because let’s keep it real, not all mujer Latina cuerpos
can/will have babies pero they still are mujer Latina bodies)
and the life that comes from those bodies is what allows hate
crimes to go unpunished, what allows the separation of mother
from child to be ok, and what allows violence against immigrant
mujeres to be ignored.  Even in this space, haters have come and
sought information about my and my children, call