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La Otra España: Reconciling a Daughter’s Bilingual Confusion

Poor Abuelita was left to give me the facts-of-life-talk after I asked her what the word "masturbation" meant.
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Yoni is the wrong damn word: marginalization and exoticism

The word yoni inherently marginalizes. It privileges one type of "South Asian" over another and instantly undermines any sense of unity that might exist in the South Asian identity.
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