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Nashville Scene: The People Issue 2023
"Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez makes a fist and shows off the word “LOCA” inked across her knuckles. Men, other women and even her parents had called her crazy in attempts to dismiss her, so she took ownership of the word. She wrote about the tattoo in her first book, For »
Español: Para Chicas Fuertes de Corazón Tierno y Piel Canela
Buy here! ABOUT PARA CHICAS FUERTES DE CORAZÓN TIERNO Y PIEL CANELA: UNA CARTA DE AMOR PARA MUJE RES DE COLOR / FOR BROWN GIRLS WITH TENDER HEARTS AND SHARP EDGES “A través de su íntima manera de narrar y su cálido abrazo a las mujeres de color para quienes escribe, »
Vanderbilt Magazine: Prisca Mojica Rodriguez, MDiv’15: Rebel Writer
Born in Nicaragua and raised in Miami, Prisca Mojica Rodriguez had expected some culture shock upon moving to Nashville in 2012 to attend Vanderbilt Divinity School. But she hadn’t expected to rebuild the entire framework for understanding her identity. Read the rest here [https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2022/08/ »
Paperback!!! October 11, 2022
This “electrifying debut” (Los Angeles Times) arms women of color with the tools and knowledge they need to find success on their own terms For generations, Brown girls have had to push against powerful forces of sexism, racism, and classism, often feeling alone in the struggle. By founding Latina Rebels, »
Latest Published Work: How Claiming My Brownness Helped Me Decolonize My Ideas Of Beauty
I do not get told I do not look Latina enough [https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/latinx-beauty-is-not-monolithic], and people are never in disbelief when they hear me identify as Latina. In fact, I have been told I look too Latina and that I act and look too Nicaraguan, specifically. Among »
Latino Book Review
written by Jessica Hoppe For nearly a decade Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez has stood at the forefront of a cultural shift—the reckoning of the colonial project through the veil of Latinidad. Establishing a platform in 2013 via social media, Mojica Rodríguez bucked popular expectations of “Hispanic excellence” and narratives »
Podcast, Tennessee Voices, Episode 222: Prisca Mojica Rodriguez, author of "For Brown Girls"
Culture shock greeted Nicaraguan American author Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez [https://www.priscadorcas.com/] when she moved from Miami to Nashville several years ago. She came to Music City with a full ride scholarship to Vanderbilt Divinity School, but she did not anticipate how difficult it would be to feel »
Teen Vogue Feature: These Authors With Roots in Latin America Are Redefining Identity, Craft & Community
BY LORRAINE AVILA [https://www.teenvogue.com/contributor/lorraine-avila]OCTOBER 1, 2021 One thing BIPOC folks are going to do is storytell to survive, to thrive [https://www.teenvogue.com/story/12-radical-latinx-groups-building-powerful-cultural-community-spaces] , to sustain, to rememory [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/08/toni-morrison-rememory-essay]. Despite the ways the publishing »
Latest Published Work: My Mami Taught Me to Be Tough
published SEPTEMBER 15, 2021 AT 10:47AM AM EDT I remember calling my mami from an inflatable mattress in a dingy basement I had just moved into. I remember the self-nurturing and self-assurance I had to do just to dial her number. I was calling my mami to tell her »
Feature on Popsugar Latina
For Brown Girls With Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts Is a Love Letter to BIWOC Author Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez’s new book For Brown Girls With Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts is a love letter to BIWOC.POPSUGAR LatinaRaquel Reichard [https://www.popsugar.com/latina/author-prisca-dorcas-mojica-rodr%C3%ADguezs-new-book-is-healing-48491102] Eight »