Spanish For Social Change

Es hora de desmercantilizar la vida! It's time to decommodify life! Thanks to Lorena Zarate for this one. Of course the term decomm...

I stumbled on this one in the official UN translation of the Colombian peace accord, where they give it the following footnote: "“Ame...

There is yet another surveillance scandal in Colombia. It involves various forms of electronic surveillance, not just the phone tapping that...

I learned this one from Paola Castañeda , who has a new article out about biketivism and the right to the city in Bogotá in Antipode. The ...

One of the most inspiring things this year has been the violador en tu camino phenomena - but I have frequently seen paco, in the original,...

I am so inspired by how this powerful feminist art protest action has traveled around the world. This version was done in Sheffield, and che...

"El Parlamento Europeo declaró este jueves la "emergencia climática" en la Unión Europea, convirtiéndose así en el primer co...

In much of the English language coverage of the recent hideous court decision about this case it is being translated as wolf pack, but I wou...

When we conflate and confuse translation (written) with interpretation (oral) we dumb down our ability as a movement to understand and addre...

I am both a geographer and a translator, so this is a total geek out. In English municipalities are only urban and don'...

From this year's we'moon calendar.

NN appears on far too many anonymous graves in Colombia. I was surprised to see it described as meaning nunca nadie (which they translated a...

I am gendered as woman (generizada como mujer) and racialized as white (racializada como blanca). Though actually in the US and Canada my ...

More and more I've been seeing queer imported into Spanish spelled as cuir. When I went looking for discussions of this I found an inter...

the enslaved: las esclavizadas y los esclavizados Calling people enslaved rather than slaves highlights both their humanity and the ongoin...

permaneceremos: we will not be moved This one comes from Roosbelinda Cardenas in her fantastic and moving article in The Nation about a...

It takes the BBC to out US Democratic candidates for using machine translation and unqualified bilingual volunteers to translate their web s...

The whole phrase would be gender wage gap and brecha salarial de genero, but if you see just brecha salarial it usually means this, not a ...

animalista: animal rights activist (or supporter?) This image comes from this post , which explains the movimiento animalista .

el monte: the bush (or the backwoods) I lean towards the bush, I think the connotation is closer. Along those lines, I render romper mont...

Yes, it might mean organic, but used alone it is more likely to mean compost. I was impressed that Barcelona had compost pick up on the st...

El respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz. Atinado.

I added a link to the Tilde Language Justice Cooperative to the collection of links of 'other folks committed to making movements more m...

This is not one of my normal term translations, but a call for papers. Even if you have no interest in writing such a thing, you might find ...

trickle-down economics: economía de goteo = "quienes poseen el capital dejan caer gotas de su riqueza para beneficiar a los de abajo...