Un Pasaporte y una Vela Bautismal

A Passport and a Baptismal Candle The Sunday after Renée Good was killed in Minnesota, I was in Chicago, visiting a friend. We sat around her kitchen table and spoke aloud about the horrors unfolding across the nation, confessing our fears and anxieties as two young Latina women. For decades now, we have watched the language of “U.S. citizen” become entangled with arguments about who is entitled to the legal protection of basic human rights. Good’s death (and later Alex Pretti’s) laid bare th...