Spanish For Social Change

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...

I have always seen plan lazo imported into English in discussion of Colombian history and politics, so I was surprised by this rendition in...

Webinar: Impactos de los nuevos pactos verdes sobre Amèrica Latina. ¿Hasta qué punto los diferentes GND propuestos en los EEUU, Europa y en ...

I have always before seen frailejón just imported into the English - so it stood out to me that this article in CNN did so but then followe...

I have blogged repeatedly about options for campesino. None of them are great wihch is why I tend to import it. It's a concept that j...

Another cacerolazo tonight in downtown Bogota. These things start from a few distant clinks then blossom out of nowhere. It means there’s st...

This is the translation give by a group of this name that is a queer collective land project in Puerto Rico. They are working for food and l...

I've blogged before about the terms gendered, and racialized, and ethnicized. Well, yes, you can also be foreignerized. Yup, totally ma...

Fantastic article here by Allison Corbett about movement T & I (translation and interpretation) - and going beyond T & I. I can...

Saw it translated here (source of photo on women's day this year in Montevideo) as exhausted, or had enough - but neither are quite as ...