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Briana L. Urena-Ravelo
Briana L. Urena-Ravelo

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May 25, 2022

A brief note while in perpetual mourning in America:

Note: Talk of the United States ahead I learned very young that the solution to certain problems of mine, to certain aggravated, chronic problems, especially with consistently foul, abusive actors in hegemonic institutions, is to simply do away with the dynamic I was in. To end it, to destroy it…

Grief

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A brief note while in perpetual mourning in America:
A brief note while in perpetual mourning in America:
Grief

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Jul 4, 2021

This Is What The Memory of American Democracy Looks Like

To save the world, we must be rid of the tyranny of our romantic recollections of American democracy. — Within a recent New York times piece of the white liberal thought strain that white US policy is actually an aberration to democracy and reflective of other peoples or styles of governance, namely the dreaded communists, it plucked the latest rise of anti-CRT legislation from the American Pie it was…

Critical Race Theory

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This Is What The Memory of American Democracy Looks Like
This Is What The Memory of American Democracy Looks Like
Critical Race Theory

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Jan 18, 2021

Only the fires of our revolutionary love can drive the cooling hate of oppression

Today is MLK Jr. day, and it is likely by now you have already seen these words of his in emails and across your social media feed at least a dozen times: “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. …

Social Justice

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Only the fires of our revolutionary love can drive the cooling hate of oppression
Only the fires of our revolutionary love can drive the cooling hate of oppression
Social Justice

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Apr 10, 2018

“In the darkness men leave behind the women and emerge in the light clean and free”

Having finished reading Junot Diaz’s piece about his rape as a child and the years of sexual, romantic and relationship trauma and toxic patriarchal behavior that followed, I am left with a lot of conflicting thoughts and emotions. I applaud that he’s opening up about and owning to some really…

Rape

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“In the darkness men leave behind the women and emerge in the light clean and free”
“In the darkness men leave behind the women and emerge in the light clean and free”
Rape

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·Mar 6, 2018

Who are the stories for: De-centering the white gaze in conversations about art and race

Though a more intentional attempt, including only featuring voices of color, the recent panel conversation “Who Tells the Story” was still about white people. How powerful could our work be if we shifted that focus and centered ourselves? — Last week, the panel discussion “Who Tells The Story: Unpacking Conversations Around Race and Art” at Fountain Street Church featured local artists and previous ArtPrize contestants, including spoken word artist Ericka Thompson (Kyd Kane), photographer Monroe O’Bryant, and Sofía Ramírez Hernández, who won the 2-D Juried category last year. The…

Racism

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Who are the stories for: De-centering the white gaze in conversations about art and race
Who are the stories for: De-centering the white gaze in conversations about art and race
Racism

10 min read


Dec 22, 2017

The ever-slamming waves of Hallyu

The industry takes a toll on everything and everyone-idols, fans, and surrounding communities-except industry wallets. When will enough be enough? — There was this article I read on Medium yesterday about the corruption, political genocides and suppression that occurred when South Korea was first becoming the developed nation as we know it now in the 50s-70s (which of course the US had a hand in). …

Kpop

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The ever-slamming waves of Hallyu
The ever-slamming waves of Hallyu
Kpop

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Dec 18, 2017

Up Witch’s Mountain

Hunted, reviled, controlled. Among people, I spent mere fleeting moments in places outside their deepest nightmares and fantasies. Angry. Jezebel. Bitch. Whore. A myth of Babylonian proportions. A character who bled the colors they painted her. Goddess, mother, healer, fear. I inhabited all plateaus, clouds, caves, gullies and hollows above…

Fiction

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Up Witch’s Mountain
Up Witch’s Mountain
Fiction

4 min read


Dec 13, 2017

Resisting the political Mammy narrative

Quit making everything we do about yourself for once and uplift Black women for Black women’s sake — In the aftermath of last night’s Alabama Senate Race results, Black women are yet again being put last in line as beneficiaries to their own act of self-preservation and are instead being seen as everyone else’s salvation. It’s horrific that the situation ever got to the point of requiring an…

Black Women

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Resisting the political Mammy narrative
Resisting the political Mammy narrative
Black Women

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Dec 10, 2017

I’d like it, for once, if a man wanted to be with me, for him to consider what elements he thinks…

I’d like it, for once, if a man wanted to be with me, for him to consider what elements he thinks would make us good for each other in equilibrium, as opposed to what aspects of me he thinks qualify me for continuing maternal stewardship of his childishness and arrested…

Relationships

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I’d like it, for once, if a man wanted to be with me, for him to consider what elements he thinks…
I’d like it, for once, if a man wanted to be with me, for him to consider what elements he thinks…
Relationships

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Nov 27, 2017

This bridge called my solidarity: The divide between Black women and Indigenous activism

On Thanksgiving last week, Colin Kaepernick joined Indigenous peoples celebrating the Indigenous Peoples’ Sunrise Gathering at Alcatraz to commemorate the anniversary of the Indigenous 1969 takeover of the island. …

Racism

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This bridge called my solidarity: The divide between Black women and Indigenous activism
This bridge called my solidarity: The divide between Black women and Indigenous activism
Racism

9 min read

Briana L. Urena-Ravelo

Briana L. Urena-Ravelo

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Writer. Community organizer. Errant punk. Ne’er do well. Fire starter. Email: Dominicanamalisima@gmail.com

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