Tag: social change

• 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…

  Claudia Rojas

  June 17, 2020

  Compositions

  communication, community, community building, social change, social media

• What would you tell God, she asks

  What would you tell God, she asks What would you tell God if you were at Heaven’s doorsteps? for all the good it does to be called articulate words don’t shape themselves in my mouth. Because it’s not what would I tell God. It’s what do I ask and where do I begin. Like– Why…

  Claudia Rojas

  March 30, 2014

  Compositions

  faith, God, love over fear, observations, poetry, social change, social commentary

• 1,000 miles: step 45

  “Maybe my finger has never pulled the trigger of White supremist crime and violence Still, I will forever be as guilty as my silence when the color of my skin grants me privilege for those sins, the crime I do not stand against is as good as mine…” –Andrea Gibson, “Bullets and Windchimes” … I…

  Claudia Rojas

  October 10, 2013

  1,000 miles

  expectations, immigration reform, poetry, politics, social change

• 1,000 miles: step 29

  Yesterday, though I was over an hour early to the immigration rally, by the time 3:00 came around, I was nowhere near the front of the stage. In fact, I was moving towards the front a dos pasos, cada dos horas (two steps, every two hours, as that merry man next to me would say).…

  Claudia Rojas

  April 11, 2013

  1,000 miles

  expectations, immigration reform, politics, social change