Carolina Machado

Joined February 2018

5 stories

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Wannabe writer // lover of music, books, and movies // wastes time watching other people play video games online

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Rotten Apple
"When whiteness and brownness collides" This is what you lecture To your students, To your colleagues, To your department,
By Carolina Machado7 years ago in Poets
I Don’t Let Remarks like 'Gringa' or 'White-Washed' Put Me Down
I wake up in the morning. I smell the aroma of pancakes and freshly brewed black coffee. My mother and her own mother confer in fluent Spanish,
By Carolina Machado8 years ago in Poets
First You're a Slave to the Education System, Then to the Corporations
It’s often hard to say who I am. How could I? When I sometimes don’t even know myself. I am a woman, age of nineteen. That is for sure.
By Carolina Machado8 years ago in Poets
We Shouldn't Settle for More or Less
Sometimes I look at you And I wonder What will happen In the unforeseen years. Will we be happy In a life of luxury?
By Carolina Machado8 years ago in Poets
I'm Willing to Admit I'm in the Wrong Sometimes
Please, Understand. I'm trying, I am. It may not look like much. I'm making an effort. I'm doing my part. I'm holding it in.
By Carolina Machado8 years ago in Poets