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Author: Renata Álvarez Léon

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By : Renata Álvarez Léon November 5, 2021November 12, 2021

42, One For Each and Every One of You

A conglomeration of 25,000 people stood together early on a Sunday morning, working to process a complicated set of emotions which only they could really understand or feel. Any attempt to explain what was going through their minds at that precise moment would most definitely fall short. There was excitement, for sure, unlike any they

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By : Renata Álvarez Léon April 16, 2021April 28, 2022

Sin Miedo, Without Fear

(translated from Spanish) From far away I hear their songs and their screams  The ground rumbles  Charged by restless spirits  Tired of making themselves small  To fit into lines drawn to cage us We all hear it from birth and learn it as children  The life lessons all women must know calladita te ves más

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By : Renata Álvarez Léon March 15, 2021March 19, 2021

A Language of Common Belonging

Berlin is foreign. Berlin is new. Berlin speaks to me in voices that I do not yet understand. It is loud, and alienating, and frustratingly unfamiliar. German signs and words are thrown at me left and right, clouding my surroundings and ensuring that I am merely an observer incapable of deciphering the simplest of phrases.

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