by Alyssa Aldape | Sep 13, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
The term and framework “reproductive justice” turned 30 this year. Not to be confused or used interchangeably with “reproductive rights,” the framework of reproductive justice invites us to go deeper into dignity. It came to be in the summer of 1994 when a group of...
by Alyssa Aldape | Sep 22, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
Editor’s note: “Look Back” is a series designed to highlight articles from the Good Faith Media archives that remain relevant or historically interesting. This article is being republished in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, which begins in mid- September and...
by Alyssa Aldape | Oct 28, 2022 | Opinion
I was never an avid listener of Kanye West’s music, and I did not go out of my way to buy his albums. I’d listen to CDs made for me by friends that happened to have his songs “Graduation Day” or “Jesus Walks” on them. “Late Registration” came out the same year I was...
by Alyssa Aldape | Oct 14, 2022 | Opinion
My earliest lessons in what it means to be a Christian leftist were from Bob the Tomato and Larry the Cucumber – two of Evangelical Christianity’s most important prophets for Christian children of the ’90s. If you are a millennial who grew up in, or tangentially...
by Alyssa Aldape | Sep 20, 2022 | Opinion
If Latinas had a nickel for each time we were described as spicy, or caliente, or as any type of object to be consumed, I believe we would go above and beyond closing the pay gap before the projected year 2206. Our bodies, like those of other women of color, have been...
