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Undocumented Thursdays

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Karla Mendoza
Feb 03, 2022
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I have been reading and re-reading the words of Alán Pelaez Lopez. Alan is an Afroindigenous poet who experienced the US as undocumented immigrant for a very long time. Our stories are of course not the same, but when I read their words I feel so incredibly less alone.

One of their poems really struck me as they write, “the young person inside me has no…

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