FISHTANK BY MIGDALIA CRUZ
Dramaturgy Website by Peter Ruiz
Glossary
Boba: Silly, stupid, dummy
Huevo: Egg
Slang for testicles, balls, scrotum
Fondillo: Buttocks/Ass
Finca: Farm or Plantation
VHS: A standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes.
Pan Dulce: Sweet Bread
Pata Caliente: someone who goes out a lot
or someone who wears the soles of their shoes out quickly
or a wanderer
Jodienda: Pain in the ass
can also mean fuck up. coming from Joder: to fuck or fuck with or mess up
People
Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm was the first African American woman in Congress (1968) and the first woman and African American to seek the nomination for president of the United States from one of the two major political parties (1972). Her motto and title of her autobiography—Unbought and Unbossed—illustrates her outspoken advocacy for women and minorities during her seven terms in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Robert Francis Kennedy, U.S. attorney general and adviser during the administration of his brother Pres. John F. Kennedy (1961–63) and later a U.S. senator (1965–68). He was the son of Rose and Joseph P. Kennedy. He was assassinated while campaigning for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in 1968.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a social activist and Baptist minister who played a key role in the American civil rights movement from the mid-1950s until his assassination in 1968. King sought equality and human rights for African Americans, the economically disadvantaged and all victims of injustice through peaceful protest. He was the driving force behind watershed events such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the 1963 March on Washington, which helped bring about such landmark legislation as the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 and is remembered each year on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a U.S. federal holiday since 1986.
Paul Michael THomas
Philip Michael Thomas is an American actor and musician, best known for his role as detective Ricardo Tubbs on the hit 1980s TV series Miami Vice.
Don Johnson
Donnie Wayne Johnson is an American actor, producer and singer. He played the role of James "Sonny" Crockett in the 1980s television series Miami Vice.
George Wallace
George Corley Wallace Jr. was an American politician who served as the 45th governor of Alabama for four terms. A member of the Democratic Party, he is best remembered for his staunch segregationist and populist views.
Geraldine Ferraro
Geraldine Anne Ferraro was an American politician, diplomat, and attorney. She served in the United States House of Representatives from 1979 to 1985, and was the Democratic Party's vice presidential nominee in the 1984 presidential election, running alongside Walter Mondale; this made her the first female vice-presidential nominee representing a major American political party
Places
Morrisania
A residential neighborhood in the southwestern Bronx, New York City, New York. Its boundaries are the Cross-Bronx Expressway to the north, Crotona-Prospect Avenue to the east, East 161st Street to the south, and Webster Avenue to the west.
Claremont Park
Claremont Park is a park in the Morrisania section of the Bronx in New York City. The land on which the park sits was once part of the Morris family estate. It became a municipal park in 1884 as part of the New Parks Act.
Claremont Park is a 38-acre park in the Morrisania section of the Bronx. It is roughly triangular and has been described as "ham-shaped" The park is bordered by Mt. Eden Avenue (previously known as Belmont Street) on the north, Morris and Teller Avenues on the west, E 170th Street on the south, and Clay Avenue on the east. It sits atop a ridge which overlooks the modern Webster Avenue; at one time this had been Mill Brook, which no longer exists.
ORCHARD BEACH
Orchard Beach (sometimes called the Bronx Riviera) is the only public beach in the New York City borough of the Bronx. The 115-acre (47 ha), 1.1-mile-long (1.8 km) beach is part of Pelham Bay Park and is situated on the western end of Long Island Sound. The beach consists of a 13-section sandy shorefront, a hexagonal-block promenade, and a central pavilion with food stores and specialty shops.
“Playa de los Mojones”
The land of the big shits
A Place near Orchard Beach where you could fix your car, learn how to drive, get drugs
More iNFORMATION
Jíbaro is a word used in Puerto Rico to refer to the countryside people who farm the land in a traditional way. The jíbaro is a self-subsistence farmer, and an iconic reflection of the Puerto Rican people. Traditional jíbaros were also farmer-salesmen who would grow enough crops to sell in the towns near their farms to purchase the bare necessities for their families, such as clothing.
In contemporary times, both white-collar and blue-collar Puerto Ricans are identifying themselves as jíbaros in a proud connection with their Puerto Rican history and culture in general.
The Taíno are Indigenous Peoples of the Caribbean. At the time of European contact in the late fifteenth century, our ancestors lived across most of Kuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Borikén (Puerto Rico), Bahamas, the northern Lesser Antilles, and the southern tip of Florida in what is known as the US today.
The Taínos are indigenous people of the Caribbean. At the time of European contact in the late 15th century, our ancestors lived in most of the Kuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Borikén (Puerto Rico), the Bahamas, the northern Lesser Antilles, and the southern tip of Florida as far as is known. like the United States today.
Atabey
Atabey is an ancestral mother of the Taino, one of two supreme ancestral spirits in the Taíno religion. She was worshipped as a zemi, which is an embodiment of nature and ancestral spirit, (not to be confused with a goddess, how she is commonly referred to in colonial terms to replace Taino verbiage and culture) of fresh water and fertility; she is the female entity who represents the Earth Spirit and the Spirit of all horizontal water, lakes, streams, the sea, and the marine tides. This spirit was one of the most important for the native tribes that inhabited the Caribbean islands of the Antilles, mostly in Puerto Rico (Borikén), Hispaniola, and Cuba.
the SOcial Contract
The Social Contract, with its famous opening sentence 'Man is born free, and he is everywhere in chains', stated instead that people could only experience true freedom if they lived in a civil society that ensured the rights and well-being of its citizens. Being part of such a society involved submitting to the general will – a force that transcended individuals and aimed to uphold the common good.
Reader’s digest
An American general-interest family magazine, published ten times a year. Formerly based in Chappaqua, New York, it is now headquartered in midtown Manhattan.
tHE nEW yORKER
The New Yorker is an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Founded as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is published 47 times annually, with five of these issues covering two-week spans.
Cecilia also spelled Cecily, (flourished 3rd century, Rome [Italy]; feast day November 22), one of the most famous virgin martyrs of the early church and historically one of the most discussed. She is a patron saint of music and of musicians.