Sonia Barrios Tinoco is associate professor of Spanish and chair of the Modern Languages and Cultures Department at Seattle University. She was born in Venezuela where she studied Literature at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, and then earned her Spanish Literature master’s Degree at Washington State University and a Hispanic Languages and Literatures Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley. Her main area of study lies in marginalized and out of the law subjects, hence she has published essays such as “Reconceptualizing the ‘American Dream’ for Undocumented Immigrants: The Yearning for a Lost Sense of Family, Identity and Belonging”; “The Construction of Identity through Violence: Joaquín Murrieta’s Corrido,” “Maria Moura, a woman outlaw,” among others. She is also deeply invested in migration studies and for ten years has been teaching a course entitled “Buscando visa para un sueño”: Cultural products on (Ill)legal Immigration.
CENTERING WISDOM
Reflection: Think of a time you were lovable to yourself and think of ways you can expand on it in your daily life.
Reflection: As humans in swiftly moving world how can we make sure that we are lovable to ourselves and others?
Activity: Stop what you are doing, close your eyes, and listen to your surroundings. Think about a time you were lovable. What did you gain from this experience? How did it benefit others? Now think of a time you were not. What can you learn from this? How can you become more lovable in your daily life?