OtheRicans: Voices from the Greater Puerto Rican Diaspora, An Unthology
In 2004 the number of Puerto Ricans living in the United States passed the number living in Puerto Rico for the first time. Of the 4 million of us living in the U.S., 70% live outside of the New York area, and yet the published literature is overwhelmingly about the Nuyorican experience. Vanessa Perez Rosario and I are editing a book about that 70%, Puerto Ricans who grew up in Loraine, Ohio or San Antonio, Texas, in Honolulu, Chicago and Orlando, as well as children of Puerto Rican military personnel, raised on bases in Europe and Asia. You can read more about the "greater diaspora" and the book project below.
The image on the left is a logo created by my brother Ricardo Levins Morales as a logo for the California Puerto Rican Historical Society, through which I collected twenty oral histories of Bay Area Puerto Rican elders, scanned their family photos, and commissioned photo portraits of them. I then curated an exhibit, California Century: Puerto Ricans in the San Francisco Bay area 1900-2000. Click here to learn more.
The image on the left is a logo created by my brother Ricardo Levins Morales as a logo for the California Puerto Rican Historical Society, through which I collected twenty oral histories of Bay Area Puerto Rican elders, scanned their family photos, and commissioned photo portraits of them. I then curated an exhibit, California Century: Puerto Ricans in the San Francisco Bay area 1900-2000. Click here to learn more.
Sins Invalid
Sins Invalid is an amazing collaborative of disabled artists creating works that illuminate our beauty, the wisdom of our bodies and our sexuality. I became involved with Sins after seeing them perform in 2008. To read that story and learn more about Sins' work, go here.
