Some links to recent-ish accounts of Indigenous people from Abya Yala being impacted by ICE in the US, particularly Maya, Zapotec, and Mixtec people in California

In-depth articles

Invisible in the data: A Maya family struggles to rebuild in Guatemala after being deported (December 2025)

I’m a 17-Year-Old Zapoteca in L.A., Choosing to Help My Community Over Fearing ICE (August 2025)

Indigenous Communities From Southern Mexico Refuse to Bow to ICE in California (August 2025)

‘If You Speak an Indigenous Language, You Are Treated as Less’: Migrant Indigenous Farmworkers Feel Deportation Threat (March 2025)

Hundreds of unaccompanied Guatemalan children can stay in the U.S. for now, judge says (August 2025) - on the Trump administration's attempt to deport 600 Guatemalan children, most of them Indigenous

L.A. kidnapping of 14 Zapotec men

Fourteen garment workers 'kidnapped' in ICE raids (June 2025) - the workers were Zapotec living in L.A.

Demand release of Zapotec workers who say they were kidnapped by ICE (June 2025) - from the families of the Zapotec garment workers

Lucha Zapoteca - instagram page of community members working to return the garment workers to their families (as of January 2026, three have been deported, eleven have returned to their families, but they are facing court hearings yet)

Urgent Aid for LA Families of 14 Detained by ICE - where you can donate to support the families

posting a destiel meme about the actual destruction of human life, especially from the comfortable distant position of being a citizen of the country carrying out that destruction who will benefit from resultant imperial superprofits subsidizing your lifestyle, should make every cell in your body explode simultaneously

if every time i complain about cis people/transphobia around my cis friends i had to put a big asterisk saying "oh but not you honey you could never do any harm to people with less power than you and you definitely don't benefit from systemic oppression that very explicitly gives you more legal rights and access to resources than i have" that would be a clear sign that they are not as transfriendly as they demand to be told they are. this is a post about trans women in predominantly tme spaces.

i don't want my transfem friends to have to tell me "but not you though" every two sentences when they're venting. i don't want my transfem friends to be scared of me.

it sickens me that there are so many men that simply never engage with anything made by women and they don't question it and they aren't questioned about it. they don't listen to music by women or read books written by women or watch movies written and directed by women or stop to look at paintings by women at museums and they're just allowed to go thru life never considering women as artists with no challenge or criticism whatsoever. meanwhile as a woman it's impossible to escape the male artistic point of view

Inspiration

Cecil B. Demented (2000), dir. John Waters

could he act? no. but was his character good? also no. and were his plotlines compelling? not really. but did he look good? also no. but did i enjoy his time on the show? again, no. but would i watch more of his character? also no

exiting a uquiz halfway through when it becomes clear the creator's narrow and immature world view and cultural knowledge leaves them totally unequipped to tell me which peanuts character i am with any degree of accuracy or insight

we do not have time for thisss

wild watching the rest of the us talk about ice invading their state or city and how they're doing this or that and its terrifying that our nation has descended to this and this is the biggest or worst or lowest or whatever other superlative....

and they're just describing what daily life has been like in el paso for upwards of twenty years. but no one cared when it happened here, because it was happening to the people its "supposed" to happen to; mexican immigrants, many undocumented.

just feels. fucked. that this city has been under the boot of ice for so fucking long. and i have never once seen it mentioned or talked about or acknowledged. i'll bet you money the vast majority of ice's arrests are still undocumented mexicans in texas.

but no one talks about that, because thats what is "supposed" to happen, and everyone decided over a decade ago when mexican kids were being put in cages outside our town and that made national news, that they were fine with it.

~Impulse ^Vic

a big part of the reason we have the fear of cops we (me and my systemmates) have is from growing up with ice sweeping where we lived. sometimes neighbors would disappear and we'd be like "where did my friend beto go?" and someone would say he and his family didn't have papers, so they got taken. just disappeared, and there was nothing anyone could do about it.

under the biden administration we saw ice taking people just about every month. just pulling over trucks and arresting everyone inside. no one cared then.

all of the ice activities that have been making national and international news trace their origins back here. el paso sent ice agents to chicago. and i don't say this to downplay the horror, everything ice is doing is absolutely terrible, but we were on tumblr in 2009 trying to get people to care and the only ones who did were overwhelmingly other latine people and a handful of Black bloggers.

people here are just really thoroughly defeated and broken. there are still protests every now and then, and at least one small activist group, but nothing has anywhere near the energy or presence other places have because we as a city and as communities have been crushed for decades. people here don't expect things to get better, they haven't in twenty years.

-- tocaya

i love to be the most laidback customer to ever grace an establishment. comrade i will wait one william years for your goods and services

btw if youre young and scared of doing adult things without your parents ive learned that like 90% of the time you can just tell the doctors office or the dmv "haha sorry ive never done this without help before... can you show me how to do this?" the employee will not care. if that means anything to you

vibe already so fucking fragile today bitches pls survive

Girls out here getting their hearts broken by men who look like Scott Evil