Spanish For Social Change

No, this is not a word, it's a tool. " Diatopix   es una herramienta que muestra, en la parte de la Web correspondiente a una lengu...

I have been seeing a lot of use of the false cognate of "first line" in coverage of the general strike in Colombia. I actually do ...

I've heard colonialidad de colonos, but colonos and colonias mean totally different things, so that doesn't really work - a point ma...

I was reminded of this term by the anti-racism daily , an email I appreciate receiving and recommend. In it they describe sousveillance as ...

I appreciated a recent article by Erika Moreno about the human rights ombuds in Colombia, and am shamelessly reposting it entirely below be...

Globish is a neologism for global English and it is a generally difficult to fully achieve holy grail, much like what tends to be called neu...

This fabulous slogan, widely used by the feminist movement across Latin America, has a fabulous double meaning of both we want to be - alive...

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...