Author: Claudia Rojas
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13 Things I, an Anxious Person, Wish I’d Known about Emergency Surgery
Every day our cells are changing. I love to think every day we are different people. These days I am counting the weeks since my emergency surgery on Thursday, April 13th, which supported mindset shifts. One of the biggest takeaways is that my anxiety can kill me, but that I can resist it, and when…
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Self-care While Job Searching
If your Masters Program gave you the option between 2 year and 3 year completion, what would you choose? With tremendous joy and fear, I chose the 2 year journey and graduated in 2021. Questions on my mind: How would I get a job in the middle of a precarious global health crisis? How would…
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Read Latinx Writers this Summer
Over the past year, some friends and I have managed to meet weekly throughout the pandemic, and we’ve chatted about Latinx literature. I feel grateful for this space, reading work by choice and interest. What’s your latest read? While you’re reading, check out your public library. In the summer, libraries encourage reading through reading challenges.…
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Immigrant Community Action Guide
The work to protect immigrant lives has already started. That work has been waiting for you to play your part. Work hard for a fair society where citizenship is not a barrier to someone’s humanity. GET INVOLVED “We are all actors: being a citizen is not living in society, it is changing it.” ―AUGUSTO BOAL…
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Stop Scrolling: Social Media as a Community Tool
At 17, I had very important things to communicate, and I needed a community: I was away, alone in an academic institution and living with Temporary Protected Status (TPS). The news reporters were ignoring my immigrant community, chasing news-worthy leads. I had no idea my immigrant community was enduring struggle in silence, until I arrived…
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Speech: Closing Words for ENGL271
Parting words spoken to creative writing students at UMD and the beautiful people enrolled in the first college class I ever had!
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Temporary Protected Status (TPS) 2020 News
In 2018, several countries lost their TPS (Temporary Protected Status) designation and the TPS community moved forward a lawsuit against wrongful termination of TPS to a CA circuit court, which ruled to temporarily block an immediate termination of TPS. On November 1, 2019, due to the CA circuit court’s indecision regarding TPS, six countries received…
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Noise Around TPS: December 2019 News Headlines
What’s the future of TPS (Temporary Protected Status) in 2019? TPS is making mainstream news while the program’s existence is in its most uncertain state. Here’s what you need to know this month.
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Noise Around TPS: November 2019 News Headlines
What’s the future of TPS (Temporary Protected Status) in 2019? TPS is making mainstream news while the program’s existence is in its most uncertain state. Here’s what you need to know this month.
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