crystal stella becerril

me gusta el vino tanto como las flores.
y los amantes, pero no los señores.
me encanta ser amiga de los ladrones
y las canciones en francés.
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no soy de aquí, ni soy de allá;
no tengo edad, ni porvenir;
y ser feliz es mi color de identidad.
—Chavela Vargas (Brooklyn, New York)

aaannnnddd we’re live. check out my site at www.crystalstellabecerril.com (New York, New York)

the 80s called—they want their turtleneck and eyeglasses back. (Brooklyn, New York)

where he at doe? #thotsky4marxistbae (New York, New York)

Love & Solidarity to la gente de México y Puerto Rico.

Frida Kahlo y Julia de Burgos: Las Soldaderas. Mural by Yasmin Hernandez in Spanish Harlem.

“Cultural identity…is a matter of ‘becoming’ as well as of ‘being’. It belongs to the future as much as to the past. It is not something which already exists, transcending place, time, history and culture. Cultural identities come from somewhere, have histories. But, like everything which is historical, they undergo constant transformation. Far from being eternally fixed in some essentialised past, they are subject to the continuous ‘play’ of history, culture and power. Far from being grounded in a mere 'recovery’ of the past, which is waiting to be found, and which, when found, will secure our sense of ourselves into eternity, identities are the names we give to the different ways we are positioned by, and position ourselves within, the narratives of the past.” — #StuartHall on the construction of #culturalidentity.
#marxistbae #xicanadaily #marxismwillsaveus #workbathroomselfiesasmomentsofcriticalselfreflection (Bushwhick)

#911 #imperialism #capitalismkills #USimperialismisglobalterrorism #crimesagainsthumanity (New York, New York)

“The world is white no longer and it will never be white again.” — #JamesBaldwin #destroywhitesupremacy #blacklivesmatter #nohumanisillegal #heretostay #defenddaca #recoveringmyindigineity #xicanadaily (Greensboro, North Carolina)

I didn’t do anything this summer besides work my 9-5 and spend EVERY SINGLE evening/weekend holed up in coffee shops around #brooklyn by myself working on my most ambitious piece to date. I’m tired, lonely, and hella demoralized, y'all, so send some love if you can spare it. goodbait.sarahah.com #imjustwaitingonmyspaceship #writeordie (Crown Heights, Brooklyn)

On this #LaborDay I’m thinking about our #DACA family who is under attack and all the millions of people denied living wages in the richest country in the world and survive against all odds.

So glad I got to visit this memorial to these bravest of comrades who lived, fought, and died for a noble cause: a world free of oppression and exploitation. May we learn from them, honor their memory, and continue fighting like hell for the living.

“THE CWP 5 LIVED AND DIED FOR ALL WORKERS, MINORITIES AND POOR: FOR A WORLD WHERE EXPLOITATION AND OPPRESSION ARE ELIMINATED AND ALL MANKIND FREED—THE NOBLE GOAL OF COMMUNISM. THEIR DEATHS, A TREMENDOUS LOSS TO CWP AND TO THEIR FAMILIES, ARE A CLARION CALL TO THE U.S PEOPLE TO FIGHT FOR WORKERS’ RULE. IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS, WAVES OF REVOLUTIONARY FIGHTERS WILL RISE AND JOIN OUR RANKS.
WE WILL OVERTHROW THE CRIMINAL RULE OF THE MONOPOLY CAPITALIST CLASS! VICTORY WILL BE OURS!

FIGHT FOR REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALISM AND WORKERS’ RULE!” (at Greensboro, North Carolina)