Xismosa Xit

Translation: Body Care

Hello all,

Today’s newsletter is sponsored by a day of just doing what your body asks of you. I hope you’ve had the chance to do that and had a good week!

Prose and Poetry of the Week

Death to Denim

In honor of my body, I present to you this piece that got me featured on Vocal’s Top Stories page. I was so proud that I sent it to anyone that I thought would care, and I even had some share it with more people! I’m glad it resonated with so many because it’s about not constraining your body. I’ve gained weight since college and more in the pandemic, and I’m trying to get used to it, and as I get used to it, I like it. And jeans can fuck off. It also made my personal “Unionize Eldest Daughters” slogan public. I’m thinking of making stickers. Want one?

Coatlicue

Another poem dedicated to a deity. As a follower of La Virgen De Guadalupe, I have dug into Her history, and found Aztec/Mexica creator and destroyer goddess Coatlicue and mother goddess Tonantzin behind La Virgen, since La Virgen is arguably a colonization project that many people have reclaimed. Although, I am having a hard time figuring out if they are always one and the same. Tonantzin is the title of “mother,” and Coatlicue is a name that means “serpent skirt,” and they seem to be used interchangeably in my research. 

Rabbitholes

Things I’ve learned, laughed about, and/or obsessed over

• My friend Serenity Hughes wrote for the New York Times about cherishing voicemails! 
• My hatred of Timothée Chaloment as a concept and debating seeing Dune DESPITE him being in it

• how to get freaking tags on the side of a WordPress blog
• “I am a mosaic of everyone I’ve ever loved, even for a heartbeat.”

Personal Chisme

chisme = gossip

• I have tried to collect my writings from around the Internet onto one page on my blog under the title Chingaderas! I hope you peruse.
• Went to a movie theatre for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic! What a concept!
• Drinking games with water? Great for hydration.
• *thunder rolling directly above us*
• me: *raised in Arizona, fully opens all windows and doors when it rains* :O
• partner: *raised in New York “greatest in the world” City, knows when to bunker down* 😐

I hope you enjoyed today, and that the New Moon treats you well! If you want to look at past ones, please check out my Xismosa Xit tab on Colochos de Flores. 

Abrazos and/or high-fives,

Ariana