Spanish For Social Change

plataforma: coalition not platform In Colombia right now there are a lot of 'plataformas de paz' and I keep seeing this rendered in ...

prison industrial complex: complejo industrial de prisiones  This one does not have great googlage, but I think it works well. Not super tri...

The English wiktionary entry for this says it is a derogatory term, but I have seen it used without any derogatory intent. Yes, you could c...

I have been endlessly frustrated by seeing this term rendered as the false cognate productive projects. That rendition just won't mean m...

I was reminded of the difficulty of translating this term by reading the article Alves, Jaime Amparo. “‘Esa Paz Blanca, Esa Paz de Mue...

This is most certainly NOT to "make a presence" (as I saw here - one of a great collection of essays by anthropologists about the...

sanism: cuerdismo According to the urban dictionary "The social, legal, or institutional discrimination against individuals who are ...

CAI stands for comando de accion imediata, but that won't mean anything to readers if you translate literally. They are actually tiny po...

Having grown up as (and still practicing as) a silent Quaker I don't know much religious terminology in either language. I don't exp...

In my last post about simultaneous interpreting on zoom I said that it cost $200 a month for the interpreting channel. That was wrong. Many ...

I have been using blanquedad, but recently I've been seeing blanquitud more often. So I did a google hits check, a trick that I often us...

I recently did my first zoom simultaneous interpreting gig. Some of the ways we set it up might be useful for you. First let me say I realiz...

I was stumped by this for a recent zoom simul gig where my speaker was in the US but my listeners were in Latin America. In a pinch I used c...

Amazonian chagras are such a rich cultural concept that they are hard to convey simply so I was impressed by this rendition, which I saw in ...

Car protests, car rallies, car caravan actions, or my favorite English term, honk-ins, aren't new, but they're certainly suddenly mo...

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'...