I and several fellow bloggers/friends have submitted two panel proposals for next year’s South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, TX. This year, the organizers of SXSW have moved to a “yes or no” system of voting. Our fate is based on the number of votes that we receive. So every vote counts!
These are the two [...]
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We all have seen the commercial for the anti-depressant medicine Cymbalta. Depression hurts,” said the popular television ads for Cymbalta. The point of the commercial, depression affects everyone around us: spouses, partners, children, parents, co-workers and friends.
Depression creates isolating behaviors, steals our energy and prevents us from being emotionally available to those around us. It [...]
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Some of you may be wondering where in the world is XP? I am still here, but not all here. Every so often a funk does grab hold of me. Sometimes, when I am in these funks, I feel like the only person who is struggling, when I know I am not. Of course there [...]
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Here are some pictures I took one hour after she was born. My poor sister had it rough. She was admitted to the hospital on Monday and ended up giving birth at 2:05 AM today.
I finally understand what Texano78704 meant he said “Counting up the ten tiny fingers and toes forever changed my perspective on [...]
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There might be a bit of dust and debris around here in the next few days, as I make a few updates to the site. WordPress has made a lot of new enhancements to their blogging platform.
While I love the new features, I do have to make some modifications to the blog. One of the [...]
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This is the blog of Edmundo "XicanoPwr" Rocha, a social worker, an activist, freelance writer and founder and editor of The Sanctuary. My interests include: immigration reform, critical race theory and it's interaction with equality/inequality and freedom/oppression as they relate to the experiences of people of color in the Americas.
Para Justicia y Libertad is a Latino-centered political blog focusing on the humanistic perspective of politics, history, and society as they relate to the Latina/o community throughout Texas and the United States.
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