Seeing Real Women Have Curves on Broadway last summer was bittersweet. It was wonderful to see myself represented on stage, but sad as the show was in its closing weekend. It’s taken me 6+ months to because I keep getting emotional, but I finally wrote it… loteriachicana.com/2026/02/21/r...

Where’s that baby’s O line?

Brother says he recognized the taquero, Villa Tacos. He’s from Highland Park and the tacos are good.

He names all the countries in the Americas from Chile to Canada and ends with “DTmF”?? CRYING

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

I know I’m gonna sound like a spoiled Dodger fan, but the irony of my kids finally being old enough to stay up for a big game and I’m not home because work travel. Anyway, glad their hearts weren’t broken by this team.

My half ass costume. My brother says I need to look more worried.

Belatedly reading about this and as always really important to remind people in *every breath* that when the right talks about “woke” and “DEI” they are talking about the cultural and political wins of the civil rights movement. This arrangement existed for 52 years because of historical activism.

i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation

Still reeling from having our Upstate LSAMP alliance terminated in early May. Couldn’t agree more with this.

A Trivial Moment Earlier this year I listed playing trivia and word games as one of the sources of joy when things seem hard. I was definitely feeling it in February, but even more now when the other shoe dropped in my work life (see: grants from NSF being terminated). Sean and I play several,…

Welp that concludes my periodic close following of my UCLA sports. I’ll always love my Bruins, even when it’s painful to watch. 💙💛

Am I reading into it, or are the footnotes kinda catty? Or is that just legalese, which I don’t read much.

This Week: Friday Five One. I have a pretty gnarly cold and had to skip book club at church. Normally this would not have been an issue, but I volunteered earlier in the week to facilitate the discussion and bring snacks. The book for this month was Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from…

Let’s Go Bruins! 🐻💙💛

New post on how I used to think I wasn't a musical person and how that's changed, especially with the influence of my kid: It's An Old Song loteriachicana.com/2025/03/29/i...

In these times I've been getting flashbacks to early 2020 when we didn't yet know how COVID-19 was going to impact us. There were huge impacts in my work at a university. I had to pivot to cancel or figure out how to move programs online. I barely knew how to use Zoom before March 2020 and quickly…

We stopped shopping at Target and now we can afford eggs.

To continue banging this drum: so many people are like "there's no protest music anymore!" and here's the biggest artist in the world (give or take) releasing a gorgeous concept album with a specific point of view on cultural imperialism, community, resistance, and more. Oh and also THIS:

Hey Mark, You catch up with Helly R? #Severance

Institute of Education Sciences was a George W Bush innovation Republicans made it happen, as part of NCLB Education Sciences Act of 2002 Idea was to provide a research base for its accountability: here are scientifically-tested methods than can improve education

NSBE’s national convention is coming up… interesting to see what their career & college fair will look like.

Shakira starting with Ojos Así 💙

Book Goals for 2025 and January Reads One of my favorite things about the beginning of the year is updating my list of books I'd like to read. I've already added a bunch of the books friends with similar taste has listed as their favorites so my list keeps growing. It's not a bad problem to have…

The First Two Weeks Many years ago I went camping with a bunch of my cousins, siblings, and our significant others in Yosemite. It was amazing, but midway through our week there we got heavy rain overnight. We discovered that our tents were not as waterproof as we expected, or we just didn't set…

“Are you building or are you destroying?” - words from L, a college peer as we pushed for more equitable admissions at UCLA and other UC campuses and built coalitions.

“No one ever really leaves” - day 1 lesson from #thatsite

That was fast.

I still haven’t gotten over Google Reader being discontinued. Can kinda relate to the kids losing TikTok.

I read this for the first time 6 weeks ago. It starts in 2024 on the main character’s birthday. LA was already burning and experiencing drought in 1993 when the book was published. Growing up in LA we already had such bad air quality there were smog days regularly.

This whole thread re the budget cuts on the LAFD and fact check of a fact check is worth a read comes down to this:

Sharing for those who are in a position to donate or pass along. My brother’s friend and coworker lost their Altadena home in the Eaton fire. gofund.me/a9580c7c

I keep looking at the maps in thinking of all the people I know in the evacuation zones or near it. My family in LA is okay and out of imminent danger. My brother works in Altadena and is having a tough time knowing that families he’d see daily have lost so much.

Dry 2024 What’s the point of being sober if no one notices?- from The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade It’s early January, and numerous news outlets and people on my social media feeds are talking about Dry January. Yesterday, I replied to a post on Threads where someone reflected on day 4 of…

Choosing a top 10 is too hard, so here are my top 20 for 2024.

New post on why I can't quit reading challenges.

Earthquakes, a GE physical science class mostly taken by social science majors. Living in California it was quite useful.

I know I’m firmly in my señora era now that I’m in my 40s because I asked my cousin where her 3-month old’s socks were when I met him. We were outside in Southern California so it wasn’t cold, but it was like a reflex.

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In the past 6 days I’ve gone to 2 funeral services for three people (my aunt and her mother and brother). I also got to meet my cousins’ babies. It’s been a tough trip to LA but grateful I could see the little ones and many other family members.

Just saw someone give a three year old a toy drum set for Christmas. Watching the parents see her open it was a canon event. I can’t intervene.

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I’d like a robot that will pack my clothes for me.

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