Letter from Puerto Rico
I have been working with the Latinx and Latin American LGBT community for more than 20 years, and teaching yoga and mindfulness to LGBT and Gender Queer Older Adults in Puerto Rico since 2018…
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Theme: Sports
Blackness and Beauty in Ecuador
The game was set: the national Ecuadoran soccer team against Switzerland in the initial round robin of the 2014 World Cup. And because of the transcendence of the match, the…
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Sports Diplomacy: A Dominican Adventure
I tried not to have my personal interests in sports and languages collide, but some things just can’t be avoided…
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Sentimental Soccer
English + Español
Between Wednesday, June 22, and Sunday, June 26, 2011, River Plate, the team I’ve been a fan of my entire life, was relegated to the second division of Argentina’s soccer league. The depth of…
Sports: Editor’s Letter
I hate sports. As a little girl, I was always stuck on the softball outfield—the practical way of including a chubby, clumsy kid in the mandatory physical education class. I’d rather have been inside reading my favorite poet Edna St. Vincent Millay…
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