Archive - Querido Boricua

The “Drunk Arsonist” needs to be tried for hate crime, or else it will set a dangerous precedent.

In any other context, it’d be racial terror, but in this case they want us to say “sh*t happens in Puerto Rico.”

Jan 8 •

Steven Casanova

November 2024

Yellow In Spite of Myself

The Carlisle Indian School and Puerto Rico.

Nov 15, 2024 •

Steven Casanova

October 2024

March 2024

The Lady In The Sabra Hat

Food deserts are not natural, and neither are famines.

Mar 4, 2024 •

Steven Casanova

July 2023

Touring Through Vanishing Fields of Coffee

Agritourism is a symptom of disaster capitalism and it threatens life and land in the mountains of Puerto Rico.

Jul 1, 2023 •

Steven Casanova

April 2023

Notes from two years without a fridge

A small, practical response to energy poverty and our suffering guts

Apr 21, 2023 •

Steven Casanova

February 2023

Azúcar Morena, anti-Blackness in non English

How colonialism perpetuates racism in the sugar islands.

Feb 18, 2023 •

Steven Casanova

January 2023

Start here: Context is everything

A year ago my dad stole $50,000 from Alex and I, essentially every penny we’d ever saved. By his telling, he was trying to help us. By mine, it was the…

Jan 30, 2023 •

Steven Casanova

December 2022

Swiping Chocolate, by the bag full

The robberies that made chocolate and divided the world.

Dec 15, 2022 •

Steven Casanova

November 2022

Cacao and capitalism (notes)

Contemplations on cacao, chocolate, colonialism.

Nov 1, 2022 •

Steven Casanova

October 2022

The Pee Plantain and Endless War

Farmland, worldwide, has been on a course of destruction for millennia, dramatically expedited by the mining of fossil fuels and the destruction of…

Oct 25, 2022 •

Steven Casanova

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