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Welcome, I'm Rebekah D. Mason Barrera
Voice Actor Performer Cycle Breaker Community Storyteller Body Liberation Later in Life Queer Family Joy Advocate Attorney Writer Playwright
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I’m a Chicana storyteller, a queer writer and a woman in eating disorder recovery working on body liberation. I write about the things that matter to me: equity, healthcare access, justice, joy and making the world a safe place for communities. Some of my writings are featured here.
Featured Writing
Featured Writing
Featured Writing
The Lovers, The Dreamers, and Me. By: Rebekah D. Mason Barrera
On planning and celebrating a wedding to the love of my life while the world burns around us. Celebrating the rainbows and joy as resistance.
From Saving Money for Poll Taxes to Galveston County Democratic Leadership. By: Rebekah D. Mason Barrera
My mama, Ramona Barrera Mason-Fulk, is now an elected precinct chair in Galveston County, at 74. She helped found the Dickinson Area Democrats along with my 81-year-old step pappy. She is also the Dickinson Area Democrats. And she's my hero. While growing up, my mom remembers her Daddy, my Grandfather, saving money in a red coffee can on the kitchen windowsill so he could afford to pay his poll tax and cast his vote for Kennedy. Years later, on that same island where both my parents were born, my Mom co-founded the Senior Mexican American Club (SMAC) at Ball High School.
Due Process is not theoretical. By: Rebekah D. Mason Barrera
On ICE Detention, the Fight for Uriel Velasco and How Bad Bunny, Selena and Mexodus Remind Us That Art Reveals Truth
We will keep going, even if it is hard and scary. By: Rebekah D. Mason Barrera
Content Warning: we live in violent and scary times and in this writing I process 2024 U.S. presidential election results accordingly. I have used violent imagery and metaphors to describe the fear and rage I am processing by placing the devastating future we have inherited in its rightful context. The violence and white supremacy which has been around since this country was “founded” through genocide and strengthened through slavery is not pretty either. Please take care of your hearts and well being.
Selena Cumbió So Bad Bunny Could Soar. By: Rebekah D. Mason Barrera
On Celebrating Bad Bunny's Monumental Grammy Win While Urging Folks to Recognize the Long-Term Effects of Colonialism That Continue to Deny Puerto Ricans Access to a Fully Recognized Humanity.
On the Revolution That Is MeXodus. By: Rebekah D. Mason Barrera
When the story of Mexodus unfolded on stage, something awoke inside me which I could not ignore. I felt more connected to community than ever before. I began to see how my work as a Mexican American poverty lawyer and advocate may have been the greatest inheritance I have ever received.
Grief is a policy issue. By: Rebekah D. Mason Barrera
American Society on Aging Conference 2025 Musings, My Grandmother, and the Stories That Stay
The US is Disappearing US Based on "Apparent Ethnicity" and You Should be Alarmed! By: Rebekah D. Mason Barrera
The United States of America has no business engaging in blacksites and back room financial dealings to disappear people from the U.S. without due process, legal justification, or public accountability.
And yet they are. This is happening. We should all be speaking up and out against these tactics.
And yet they are. This is happening. We should all be speaking up and out against these tactics.
Joy Comes Through. By: Rebekah D. Mason Barrera
In a Time of Grief and Fear, Joy Comes Through the Work We Do To Connect With Our Voices. We Share Our Stories. And We Who Believe In Freedom Cannot Rest Until It Comes.
Who gets to tell the story of the people of the United States, of the Americas? By: Rebekah D. Mason Barrera
For far too long, it’s been the colonizers, the white supremacists, the slave owning exploitative, Jim Crow defenders. To the victor belongs the spoils, they say. The winners of these battles within the war might write history books or burn the books but they cannot and do not own our truths.
Born Citizens, Denied Power: A Law Day Reflection from a Tejana Lawyer
I’m of the first generation in my big fat Mexican American family born with an unencumbered right to vote. And I don’t take that for granted.
The Lovers, The Dreamers, and Me. By: Rebekah D. Mason Barrera
On planning and celebrating a wedding to the love of my life while the world burns around us. Celebrating the rainbows and joy as resistance.
From Saving Money for Poll Taxes to Galveston County Democratic Leadership. By: Rebekah D. Mason Barrera
My mama, Ramona Barrera Mason-Fulk, is now an elected precinct chair in Galveston County, at 74. She helped found the Dickinson Area Democrats along with my 81-year-old step pappy. She is also the Dickinson Area Democrats. And she's my hero. While growing up, my mom remembers her Daddy, my Grandfather, saving money in a red coffee can on the kitchen windowsill so he could afford to pay his poll tax and cast his vote for Kennedy. Years later, on that same island where both my parents were born, my Mom co-founded the Senior Mexican American Club (SMAC) at Ball High School.
Due Process is not theoretical. By: Rebekah D. Mason Barrera
On ICE Detention, the Fight for Uriel Velasco and How Bad Bunny, Selena and Mexodus Remind Us That Art Reveals Truth
We will keep going, even if it is hard and scary. By: Rebekah D. Mason Barrera
Content Warning: we live in violent and scary times and in this writing I process 2024 U.S. presidential election results accordingly. I have used violent imagery and metaphors to describe the fear and rage I am processing by placing the devastating future we have inherited in its rightful context. The violence and white supremacy which has been around since this country was “founded” through genocide and strengthened through slavery is not pretty either. Please take care of your hearts and well being.
Selena Cumbió So Bad Bunny Could Soar. By: Rebekah D. Mason Barrera
On Celebrating Bad Bunny's Monumental Grammy Win While Urging Folks to Recognize the Long-Term Effects of Colonialism That Continue to Deny Puerto Ricans Access to a Fully Recognized Humanity.
On the Revolution That Is MeXodus. By: Rebekah D. Mason Barrera
When the story of Mexodus unfolded on stage, something awoke inside me which I could not ignore. I felt more connected to community than ever before. I began to see how my work as a Mexican American poverty lawyer and advocate may have been the greatest inheritance I have ever received.
Grief is a policy issue. By: Rebekah D. Mason Barrera
American Society on Aging Conference 2025 Musings, My Grandmother, and the Stories That Stay
The US is Disappearing US Based on "Apparent Ethnicity" and You Should be Alarmed! By: Rebekah D. Mason Barrera
The United States of America has no business engaging in blacksites and back room financial dealings to disappear people from the U.S. without due process, legal justification, or public accountability.
And yet they are. This is happening. We should all be speaking up and out against these tactics.
And yet they are. This is happening. We should all be speaking up and out against these tactics.
Joy Comes Through. By: Rebekah D. Mason Barrera
In a Time of Grief and Fear, Joy Comes Through the Work We Do To Connect With Our Voices. We Share Our Stories. And We Who Believe In Freedom Cannot Rest Until It Comes.
Who gets to tell the story of the people of the United States, of the Americas? By: Rebekah D. Mason Barrera
For far too long, it’s been the colonizers, the white supremacists, the slave owning exploitative, Jim Crow defenders. To the victor belongs the spoils, they say. The winners of these battles within the war might write history books or burn the books but they cannot and do not own our truths.
Born Citizens, Denied Power: A Law Day Reflection from a Tejana Lawyer
I’m of the first generation in my big fat Mexican American family born with an unencumbered right to vote. And I don’t take that for granted.
The Lovers, The Dreamers, and Me. By: Rebekah D. Mason Barrera
On planning and celebrating a wedding to the love of my life while the world burns around us. Celebrating the rainbows and joy as resistance.
From Saving Money for Poll Taxes to Galveston County Democratic Leadership. By: Rebekah D. Mason Barrera
My mama, Ramona Barrera Mason-Fulk, is now an elected precinct chair in Galveston County, at 74. She helped found the Dickinson Area Democrats along with my 81-year-old step pappy. She is also the Dickinson Area Democrats. And she's my hero. While growing up, my mom remembers her Daddy, my Grandfather, saving money in a red coffee can on the kitchen windowsill so he could afford to pay his poll tax and cast his vote for Kennedy. Years later, on that same island where both my parents were born, my Mom co-founded the Senior Mexican American Club (SMAC) at Ball High School.
Due Process is not theoretical. By: Rebekah D. Mason Barrera
On ICE Detention, the Fight for Uriel Velasco and How Bad Bunny, Selena and Mexodus Remind Us That Art Reveals Truth
We will keep going, even if it is hard and scary. By: Rebekah D. Mason Barrera
Content Warning: we live in violent and scary times and in this writing I process 2024 U.S. presidential election results accordingly. I have used violent imagery and metaphors to describe the fear and rage I am processing by placing the devastating future we have inherited in its rightful context. The violence and white supremacy which has been around since this country was “founded” through genocide and strengthened through slavery is not pretty either. Please take care of your hearts and well being.
Selena Cumbió So Bad Bunny Could Soar. By: Rebekah D. Mason Barrera
On Celebrating Bad Bunny's Monumental Grammy Win While Urging Folks to Recognize the Long-Term Effects of Colonialism That Continue to Deny Puerto Ricans Access to a Fully Recognized Humanity.
On the Revolution That Is MeXodus. By: Rebekah D. Mason Barrera
When the story of Mexodus unfolded on stage, something awoke inside me which I could not ignore. I felt more connected to community than ever before. I began to see how my work as a Mexican American poverty lawyer and advocate may have been the greatest inheritance I have ever received.
Grief is a policy issue. By: Rebekah D. Mason Barrera
American Society on Aging Conference 2025 Musings, My Grandmother, and the Stories That Stay
The US is Disappearing US Based on "Apparent Ethnicity" and You Should be Alarmed! By: Rebekah D. Mason Barrera
The United States of America has no business engaging in blacksites and back room financial dealings to disappear people from the U.S. without due process, legal justification, or public accountability.
And yet they are. This is happening. We should all be speaking up and out against these tactics.
And yet they are. This is happening. We should all be speaking up and out against these tactics.
Joy Comes Through. By: Rebekah D. Mason Barrera
In a Time of Grief and Fear, Joy Comes Through the Work We Do To Connect With Our Voices. We Share Our Stories. And We Who Believe In Freedom Cannot Rest Until It Comes.
Who gets to tell the story of the people of the United States, of the Americas? By: Rebekah D. Mason Barrera
For far too long, it’s been the colonizers, the white supremacists, the slave owning exploitative, Jim Crow defenders. To the victor belongs the spoils, they say. The winners of these battles within the war might write history books or burn the books but they cannot and do not own our truths.
Born Citizens, Denied Power: A Law Day Reflection from a Tejana Lawyer
I’m of the first generation in my big fat Mexican American family born with an unencumbered right to vote. And I don’t take that for granted.
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