Listen to my latest interview with Karla Lopez-Owens, on the show Rebel music where we discuss songs that have influenced me as a person and writer. Tune in here! copy: SEPTEMBER 05, 2023 Rebel Music with Karla López Owens is an ongoing series on Cultural Manifesto exploring the relationship between »
My publisher and I got together to create a reading guide for book clubs. Use freely :) Reading Guide FINAL Reading Guide_FINAL.pdf 612 KB download-circle »
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"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, »
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, »
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/ »
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, »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
