Spanish For Social Change

Though 'tomb raider' is the more common term in English (for a guacero) I like tomb looting better because raiding has a more positi...

I got to thinking about this term because CISPES is doing a fantastic tour of the US with the compas from Equipo Maiz , who are offering p...

Obviously this is not a literal translation, but I think it is a far more accurate one for most uses of this term. I got this rendition from...

Cimarrones were historically freedom seekers - that is to say, fugitives from slavery. Notice the difference between framing it this way and...

to swarm is enjambrar so for swarm the state how about enjambremos el estado? image, of course, is from the fabulous beehive collective  ...

I have blogged here about many dangerous false cognates related to social change, such as municipio and judicialización and proyectos prod...

 "! تعبنا, تعبنا, I hear over and over again, when watching Gaza in Arabic. It could be rendered in English as simply we are tired, we ...

I can't believe I only just now learned this word. Endosex is the opposite of intersex . I am an endosex person, as my physical and hor...

I just learned this word in Spanish here in Mexico City and made up this English translation. Captures perfectly how I feel after several da...

I noticed today in this interesting Guardian article about indigenous drug runners in the Amazon that they kept the term maloca and follow...

In Colombia usually the term panfleteo references the spreading around town or just left in front of certain people's houses of short on...

It used to be somewhat common to use the @ to denote, say, juntos y juntas. The problem is that it still reinforces the gender binary. I d...

Comuna 13 (Col): District ( comuna ) 13 This is another one that sometimes gets rendered with the extremely misleading false cognate commune...

I have posted about caserío before , and rendered it as small village. But yesterday I was showing my reconciliation seminar students the Ba...

As in build the number of people active in the organization, the grassroots base.  I got this great translation in a lovely email describing...

Dar la cara, in Colombia at least, carries the double meaning of both face the music (acknowledging responsibility) and press the flesh (phy...

I was reminded of this term by this spectacular long read analysis in the New Left Review by Forrest Hylton and Aaron Taus of the current Co...

To get your/their hackles up refers metaphorically to the literal act many mammals do when threatened, of raising their shoulders to protect...

Or gender neutral: desaliñade. Not exactly a social change related term - other than that social change folks may tend to be (though certain...

Yesterday I participated in Reeds and Roots , a very sweet earth skills skillshare event. Here we're learning about composting using the...

hacer una denuncia: issue a public condemnation (or ...) Depending on the context sometimes 'file a complaint' will be a better fit....

I suppose this could also be deliciously alive, but vivir sabroso is clearly a play on vivir bien - and since that is living well it makes ...

 This term is used in Colombia. Is it is also used in other countries? If you've heard it elsewhere please say so in the comments. I s...

I usually render grassroots as popular (and vice versa), but sometimes as 'de base.' I've posted before about trabajo de base ,...

Perhaps not normally a social justice term, but back in 2016 there was an explosion of bollards in Bogota, which was seen by many as a misus...