HeyJaredRebe & Justice Through Joy
I am Rebekah D. Mason Barrera, a queer Chicana artist, playwright, & storyteller. My life and work are storytelling through authentic connection, and community, art and liberation work. Justice Through Joy. Front Porch Sippin' & Storytellin'.
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Always Waiting for Rebe: A Chicana Story in Several Stages (opens the original)
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My grandparents picked cotton. Cotton and fruit, across Texas and California. And decades later, my parents were the first in their families to graduate from high school in Galveston, Texas. Decades later, I graduated from law school in Lansing, Michigan. My parents grew up in Galveston housing projects. For a few years my dad and his siblings called a Galveston orphanage home. My mother was once told not to worry about college by her high school guidance counselor, even though that same year, s
America at 250 and Happy Belated Juneteenth (opens the original)
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