Seller's Remorse

I have had the pleasure of running a lifestyle brand that creates and sells clothing and other merchandise rooted in thoughtfulness, social consciousness, and the lived pains and experiences of marginalized people. And it might be because of this that I encounter myself in a paradox.

I’m writing today from a place I never seek out, but one that finds me anyway, just often enough to sting every time. That place is seller’s remorse. Like the first bite into a fresh grapefruit, the tangy sweetness is followed by the unavoidable bitterness.

T.G. BrownFebruary 12, 2026Comment

A Failed Effort in Resurrecting Imperialism

Trump has been clear about setting his eyes on Greenland. With the melting of its ice caps and its strategic positioning, Greenland has become an increasingly attractive objective for the US president.

In AHUS’ January 12 publication, Zinthia Álvarez Palomino spoke about the toppling of the Venezuelan government and argued, “it enables a more rigorous analysis of how sovereignty, justice, and legitimacy are unevenly distributed across global power relations rooted in the historical subordination of Abya Yala, especially to the United States.”

Ruth Jean-MarieFebruary 5, 2026Comment

Intervention in Venezuela: A Logic of Colonialism and Expansionism

Recognizing that United States intervention in Venezuela responds to a colonial logic does not deny in any way the profound harm, the pain, suffering, killings, or violence inflicted by the Maduro regime, nor does it invalidate the other feelings that emerged after the “apparent removal” of that regime or imply defending its continuation in power. Rather, it enables a more rigorous analysis of how sovereignty, justice, and legitimacy are unevenly distributed across global power relations rooted in the historical subordination of Abya Yala, especially to the United States.

Discrediting those of us who raise these concerns by labeling us naïve, “red,” or dreamers, while simultaneously claiming that only U.S. military intervention could have brought about the fall of the Maduro regime, reproduces what thinkers like Aníbal Quijano and Frantz Fanon described as the coloniality of being. This reasoning once again frames us as subordinated bodies, incapable of self-determination and in need of outside intervention, discipline, and correction.

Guest WriterJanuary 15, 2026Comment

Venezuela: Una lógica colonial y expansionista

Reconocer que la intervención de Estados Unidos en Venezuela responde a una lógica colonial no implica, en absoluto, negar el dolor, el sufrimiento, los asesinatos ni las violencias producidas por el régimen de Maduro, y en ningún caso invalida el sentimiento devenido tras la “aparente eliminación” del régimen.

Tampoco supone defender su continuidad en el poder. Hacer esa lectura limita y bloquea el análisis y lo reduce a una posición que, lejos de justificar un régimen autoritario, intenta complejizar una realidad atravesada por relaciones históricas profundamente desiguales entre Abya Yala y Estados Unidos.

Guest WriterJanuary 15, 2026Comment

Trauma, Memory, Resistance: Healing in a Wounded Nation

The Wound Beneath the Skin

America is a nation in denial about its wounds. The traumas that shaped this country—slavery, genocide, segregation, displacement, mass incarceration—have never healed because they have never been acknowledged. Instead, we are told to “move on,” to “look forward,” to “let it go.” But you cannot heal a wound you refuse to name. And the longer it festers beneath the surface, the more it poisons everything it touches.

Felicia ThompsonDecember 4, 2025Comment

The Robbery at the Louvre is a Lesson on Hubris

The Louvre was robbed. It took less than eight minutes to remove what France held in infamy for centuries. The country has a history of stealing, and the theft left the country a bit scandalized. Some historians were heartbroken, but many casual observers thought the museum and the country got what they deserved.

In the days that followed, it was clear that the Louvre had already been aware of its poor security. The jewels, being invaluable, were not insured. Security in museums maintains the integrity of the visuals. They ensure that the oils from our hands aren’t aging the paintings, that the flash from ou

Ruth Jean-MarieNovember 20, 2025Comment

Bad Bunny to Perform at the Superbowl: the Truth About Who Can Be Deported

The Internet has been in an uproar about Puerto Rico’s status as a part of the U.S. Benito Antonio “Bad Bunny” Martínez Ocasio continues to tour around the world conspicuously leaving the “mainland” United States off of his tour. His original reasoning surrounded the continuous ICE raids that terrorize communities across the country. As a result, his acceptance of the Super Bowl LX performance felt contradictory to some. Others, reminding the world that Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory and also a part of his tour, thought it diligent to dismiss his efforts altogether.

Ruth Jean-MarieNovember 13, 2025Comment

Collective Amnesia: The Weaponization of Forgetting

America has never been forgetful by accident. Forgetting is one of its oldest strategies of survival—for the powerful, not the people. This country doesn’t suffer from memory loss; it suffers from selective recall. It remembers who built the skyscrapers, not who built the railroads. It remembers who signed the Declaration, not who was enslaved when it was written. Forgetting here is not a lapse—it’s law.

Felicia ThompsonNovember 6, 2025Comment