Wilfredo A. Gomez

Speaking across geographical, political, educational, racial, gendered, and classed conversations to highlight the challenges involved in both navigating and negotiating circumstances, systems, and institutions.

That particular brand of mediocre whiteness is front and center when it comes to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s most vocal critics.

While power dynamics are (often) constructed along lines of race, they do not preclude other power dynamics predicated upon different identities and hierarchies of difference.

I see and hear that voice of hate, and yet I will happily participate in the democratic process.