Leo's Tattoo

11/16/2025

Hanging out with a dog in Barcelona a couple of years ago

11/16/2025

Coco was such a goofball

She was such a goofball

11/05/2025

🌎 Stop calling Mexicans “Hispanic” — here’s why that word doesn’t mean what you think it does.

They say “Hispanic” like it’s a compliment.
Like it’s one big family.
But for many Mexicans, that word feels like someone else’s story.

The word Hispanic comes from Hispania — the old Roman name for Spain.
It was the U.S. government in the 1970s that began using it, to fit every Spanish-speaking person into a single box.
Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Colombians, Mexicans — all suddenly became one label.

But Mexico is not just Spanish.
It’s Indigenous. It’s African. It’s Asian. It’s Mestizo.
It’s the story of people who survived colonization — not the empire that caused it.

In Mexico, nobody calls themselves Hispanic.
That word only really exists on U.S. government forms.

02/05/2025