Yuca Perez

“The problem, he went on, is that “people in Puerto Rico are very fearful of thinking about the Big Thing. We are not supposed to be dreaming; we are not supposed to be thinking about even governing ourselves. We don’t have that tradition of looking at the big picture.” This, he said, is colonialism’s most bitter legacy.”
― Naomi Klein, The Battle For Paradise

“Still, the idea of turning an island that cannot keep the lights on for its own people into “the epicenter of this multitrillion-dollar market” rooted in the most wasteful possible use of energy is a bizarre one and is raising mounting concerns of “crypto-colonialism.”
― Naomi Klein, The Battle For Paradise

“The world tells us this is what we should want: be a daughter, be a wife, be a mother. But you deserve to be you as well.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Warbler

“Ultimately, though, the very conversations that we are tempted to ignore or avoid because of their potentials for conflict can be the most powerful, if facilitated effectively.”
― Edward Charles Valandra, Colorizing Restorative Justice: Voicing Our Realities