Category: Generation Y

  Today could be the 3rd of June or the 9th of September, because there are hardly any signs that it is Christmas.  Few, very few, offer holiday greetings in the street.  Compared to December 25th of last year, this is a lifeless day with fewer expectations for the future.  More than twelve months have… Continue reading Nativity?

If you don’t offer solutions, don’t you dare to use the weapon of criticism–that’s what some people tell me who, themselves, don’t offer a single remedy either.  Their tone reminds me of the boring Pioneer assemblies I had to attend during all my years of school.  When it came my turn to speak and my… Continue reading Solutions

Generation Y and the other blogs on the Portal Desdecuba.com have been inaccessible for more than twenty-four hours. The causes of the blackout have not yet been determined, but I want to thank all those who have been concerned about the loss of our connection. I regret giving you so many headaches, but I am… Continue reading Blackout

The price of fuel at gas stations was lowered and on Thursday, December 11, the daily newspaper Granma announced that we would need only half as much money to open a cell phone account.  It’s not often that there is news of prices falling so we are still of two minds about whether this is… Continue reading Infected by price cuts

With the objective of encouraging the Cuban blogosphere and motivating those who use the Internet for expressing ideas, information and testimonies, the team of the magazine Convivencia and the editorial board of the site Desdecuba.com, announce the contest titled A Virtual Island. The contest rules will be sent by email to all bloggers who write… Continue reading Blog Contest: A Virtual Island

On Wednesday we took a new step on the long journey that began earlier this month.  Eleven participants, including seven authors of blogs, met in what we playfully call, “Café Blogger.”  We began with the article from Andrew Sullivan, “Why I Blog?” and the questions outnumbered the certainties learned from our brief experience on the… Continue reading Blogger Journey

A curious end of the year in which the surprises accumulate, Christmas trees return and sexologists start to use the language of the machistas [macho women].   Mariela Castro has called me gallita [female cock] and, in her language as a specialist in gender and sexuality, the word has homophobic connotations.  Perhaps because I am ignorant… Continue reading Gallita / “Cocky hen”

In one of those confusions so common in children, I thought for years that the logo of the Committee for the Defense of the Revolution was an enormous eye carrying a machete.  As I was unaware of the origin of this aggressive iconography, I saw it as an indiscreet pupil, watching me on every block. … Continue reading CDR

While preparing extensive reports on the fiftieth anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, few ask themselves if the celebration is the birthday of a living creature, or simply the anniversary of something that happened.  Revolutions don’t last half a century I advise those who ask me.  They end up devouring and excreting themselves in authoritarianism, control… Continue reading Birthday or anniversary?

  For Miguel, who still dreams of being a Social-Democratic woman Yesterday I went to a conference on sexuality held at the Museum of Fine Arts.  For two weeks, there has been a series on erotic art accompanied by films and talks.  Just this Tuesday there was a chance to hear about the incorporation of… Continue reading Brief encounter with Mariela