Videos

Stories of Transformation: Interview with Boona Cheena

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September, 2013 interview with Boona Cheena on cable TV in Berkeley. California, discussing my new book, Kindling: Writings On the Body, and my older book, Remedios. I talk about about social trauma, environmental impacts on our health, the power of storytelling and , and a lot more.

25th Empowering Women of Color Conference, UC Berkeley, March, 2010

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The keynote theme was Intergenerational Wisdom: Celebrating Our Past, Present, & Future.  I read my poem "Revision" and talk about what should be in the 21st century toolkit/medicine bag of a woman of color activist.

Imagine This: A Poem for the Cuban Five

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I started composing this poem in Cuba in 2009 as I learned more about the case of the five Cuban anti-terrorist heroes and their imprisonment in the US for trying to stop terrorist acts by right wing Cuban-Americans against the Cuban population.  I read this at an event in their support in San Francisco.