Hey people. I’m in the midst of packing to leave Ecuador for EcuaYork, my home-away-from-home-away-from-home in Queens, rather reluctantly, but also ready to see my people and eat all the thin...
https://baniamor.com/2017/05/02/living-for-the-legacy-on-misogynoir-and-climate-disasters/
I can hear the water trickling back up through the pipes. It’s been off all day, probably ‘cause it rained like a motherfucker last night. They don’t call it a rain forest for nothing. We g...
https://baniamor.com/2017/04/11/pray-for-blank-climate-disasters-the-narrative-of-place/
Hey folks, A few months ago an essay of mine, Beyond Binary, was published in Archer Magazine’s THEY/THEIRS issue dedicated to non-binary gender identities. It’s the first time my travel pho...
Hey People, I made it safely to Ecuador just in time for the locura of the presidential elections. I’ve left Quito and am just outside of Puyo, listening to wild birds call out to each other in...
https://baniamor.com/2017/02/24/threshold-of-revelation-a-queer-disabled-killjoy-on-national-themes/
(Image of Nélida Ayay Chilón via Vimeo) “Drop by drop, the world is ending.” While Indigenous water protectors were being attacked in Standing Rock Sioux territory from Spring into Winter...
https://baniamor.com/2017/01/09/article-71-from-ecuador-to-standing-rock-water-is-life/
People, I’m glad we could all put our differences aside for a moment to collectively say FUCK YOU to 2016. If only we had that kind of consensus on actual shit and not a 12-month span of time,...
https://baniamor.com/2017/01/04/new-year-who-dis-updates-round-up-poc-travel-book-club/
If we’re going to protect the sacred and prepare for the worst, we must look at the environmental effects of white supremacy. Real talk: it’s been a fucked up month in a fucked up year and I,...
https://baniamor.com/2016/12/18/the-least-convenient-truth-white-supremacy-and-climate-change/
Hey people. So while I was in Ecuador this summer writing about the earthquake in Ecuador this spring, an earthquake hit. I was fine, but it exacerbated the urgency I felt in writing about disast...
https://baniamor.com/2016/12/12/listen-unnatural-disasters-climate-change-ecuador-and-beyonce/
Back in April, when the initial 7.8 earthquake hit Ecuador, I was running around trying to get folks to, first of all, know that we exist, second of all, care, third, care enough to donate for th...
https://baniamor.com/2016/10/24/how-to-help-haiti-not-disaster-capitalists/
hey people, I have an essay on traveling through place and gender in bklyn boihood’s long-awaited anthology Outside the XY: Queer Black and Brown Masculinity! Published by Riverdale Ave Books...
https://baniamor.com/2016/09/05/outside-the-xy-queer-black-and-brown-masculinity/