Currently: legal aid paralegal. Previously: shelter coordinator, bakery doughboy, construction worker, supermarket stockboy, and restaurant cook/dishwasher/busser, among others. I spend my free time at solidarity group meetings and perusing archives. Bilingual English-español.

Note: particularly unfriendly to anyone who supports or is indifferent to the rule of fascists.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

"So it is indeed the master, the one who invites, the inviting host, who becomes the hostage—and who really always has been. And the guest, the invited hostage, becomes the one who invites the one who invites, the master of the host. The guest becomes the host’s host ... These substitutions make everyone into everyone else’s hostage. Such are the laws of hospitality." (Derrida)

Interests

Borderlands/labor/race/migration studies. Socialist politics. Béisbol.

At heart, I am an 80-year-old man: Cranky. Not down to party. Enamored with maps. Might take you to a diner to get enchiladas and fries.

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Rock, Motown, Soul, Folk
Movies: e.g. Los Olvidados, Umberto D., The Bicycle Thief, Amores Perros, M, Ikiru, Cidade de Deus, The Seventh Seal, Salt of the Earth
Books: e.g. Go Tell It on the Mountain, Cartucho, God of Small Things, Grapes of Wrath, Hombres de maíz, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, A People's History, The Black Jacobins, Las batallas en el desierto, Cien años, Los detectives salvajes, La ciudad y los perros, Impossible Subjects, the Grundrisse, The World Turned Upside Down

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Managed to get all the way through Anna Karenina.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Bibliography.

Countries I’ve Lived In

Guatemala, Mexico, United States