#mexican life

[quiensabecomo]

Mi primer viaje a Huatulco

Oaxaca, noviembre 2022

[hymnsofheresy]

everytime i tell europeans my favorite cuisine is texmex & sonoran they are like “American bastardized Mexican food?” and i feel like im going insane. its not bastardized. its their fucking cuisine.

[huariqueje]

Outdoors Breakfast   -   Elena Climent , 2022.

Mexican, b. 1955-

Oil on linen on bord, 17 3/4 x 11 in.

[11oh1]

[kookies2000]

As someone who grew up in a household where men were never allowed to show affection, let alone to another man, from fear of being seen as weak.............

These forehead touches between friends/bros are so healing to me. Please, we need more of this. Platonic affection between men is beautiful, and I wish I had grown up with it.

[gringadano]

Relax and stay chill

[leviathiane]

HELP they looked at Natsume and went "oh this guy is so unsocialized"

[lolo0322]

🥛

[feral-ballad]

Rosario Castellanos, tr. by Magda Bogin, from The Selected Poems of Rosario Castellanos; "The splendor of being"

[Text ID: "Ah, to wake, to live, / to love, to love the wind / as a bird loves!"]

[passionpeachy]

[mueritos]

i’m 5 years on t today! yahoo! here’s me now vs the day i started t in 2019!

[cybergus]

Nocturnal Mutations, the streets of the night (Mexico City 2024), by Abelardo Ojeda.

My Porftolio

[limononada]

Emilia Pérez is a movie that not only shows a Mexico full of stereotypes, but the director himself (french, by the way) admitted to the mexican press he didn't need to investigate about the country, because, according to himself, he "already knew what [he] needed to understand"

The movie touches the topic of narcotráfico and mass forced dissappearences in a way that lacks any cultural sensibility, used almost as plot element more than actually tackling this very real, painful issue that haunts Mexico to this day. It pays no respect at all for the victims or their families that are still looking for them. And nor the director, nor the cast, in all the time they've had and all the platforms they've been given, have at any way or form, bought light to this problematic or honored the victims and their families. Not even when Mexico is going through an on-going narco-war affecting several cities. Right now. As you're reading this. As all these people are getting their nominations, gaining praise and awards out of profiting off of their suffering.

It's also no coincidence this movie seems to be endlessly praised by Hollywood - just right when Trump and his team have openly talked about military intervention in Mexico, have declared cartels as terrorists, is doing mass deportations under the propaganda that we are all criminals, and generally being as racist and xenophobic as possible towards mexicans and other latinos.

No coincidence however with having the cast itself villainizing mexicans as if we are criticizing this disrespectful movie or don't like it simply because we can't "accept" the bad side of Mexico - which we do, and fight every single day against.

It reeks of propaganda, as I talked about previously in another post, and it's incredibly discouraging to see people eating it up and even playing part on it by defending this and choosing to not listen to mexicans and latinos.

Not even going to talk about it using AI, the cast being non-mexican except for the one actress they left alone responding to mexican press not wanting to face the criticism and didn't even sit with during the Golden Globes, the bad edging-on-xenophobic behaviour towards mexicans of the (spaniard, mind you!) lead actress, the GLAAD writing an article about this movie being a transphobic portrayal of trans women, all the disrespectful mexican and Mexico stereotypes that almost feel like a racist caricature, the bad pronounciation of our language or how the spanish writing of the songs makes no sense, whatsoever.... I could go on and on.

Please please please start listening to mexicans and latinos, I beg of you.

[huariqueje]

Brick mantel with Vermeer   -   Elena Climent , 2021.

Mexican, b. 1955-

Oil on linen on bord, 12 x 18 in.

[11oh1]

[royalarchivist]

Mariana: [Translated] Do you live here, my love?

Missa: Eh? Eh??

Slime: Whoa, whoa, whoa- Mariana, whoa- what are you saying?

Mariana: No no- bad translate, bad translate.

Slime: I don't think so, I heard "mi amor", I heard "mi amor"

Phil: I am taken for, thank you very much.

Mariana: [Translated] And we are also happy together, and we make love.

Slime: Phil, Phil, Phil, do you want to trade? It doesn't really- it just doesn't do it for me anymore.

Phil: No I'm s- I'm so happy with my partner.

[Kristin laughing distantly in the background]