Spanish For Social Change

As I understand it, this term refers to people changing how they classify themselves on the census and other official forms, without changin...

A bit like the last term I blogged, marica , negro is widely used somewhat affectionately in Colombia. Translating it as black man doesn...

This term gets used incredibly widely in Colombia. Lots of straight people with otherwise great politics use it as a teasing term of affecti...

I am totally making this one up, but I kind of love it and think it would be as understandable as the English neologism. If you've r...

In Colombia the euphemism for these is 'falsos positivos.' Exterminados is a bit more honest.  I learned it from the article below f...

reposted from Grist.org (as you can see, this type of activism has its own methods for banner holding, etc : ) Greenpeace USA A...

This translation appears in the fantastic nacla article reposted below on the current protests in Guatemala.  For the record I'm more h...

Radio Ambulante has a fantastic program  here that talks about how you speak in Spanish when you want to avoid having to say estoy cansadO ...

I'm outraged about unethical and environmentally irresponsible Canadian mining in Latin America, and particularly Colombia.  So I'...

No, this word is not in the Oxford dictionary, but as I recently argued on my other blog, decolonizing solidarity , I think that we should...

I'm going to interpret for a large public event in Toronto where parents of the massacred 43 teachers college students will be speaki...

This is sometimes mistakenly rendered as accionistas, which is actually share holders. This is really not movement terminology, it's usu...

I am totally just making this up.  Has anyone heard any other version being actually used on the ground, not in translation? Artivism is s...

A work slowdown is an operación tortuga, but how would you translate a " work-to-rule " action? Huelga de celo? Trabajar a reglam...

I've posted twice before about this term, rendering it as first bogus/trumped up/false criminal charges and then malicious prosecution ...

In the same  interview of a leader in the Dignidad Agropecuaria Colombiana  (Colombian Agricultural Dignity) movement that I mentione...

Similarly cafetero is coffee farmer - and my life is made better by both! I was reminded of this term this great interview of a cafetero le...

The research project on ethnicity and race in Latin America ( PERLA ) has published their findings in the new book Pigmentocracies .  I have...