A version of this piece was originally published on Vivala. To my white novio, I am going to need to speak to you frankly about what it means to date a brown girl from ChicoPelon Managua, Nicaragua. Because since I arrived to the USA, you white boys have been attempting
To the mamis with difficult daughters… To the mamis who still manage to show love to their difficult daughters… To the mamis who still manages to praise us for being who we are, in your own way. Saying things like: me das mucho descanso. To the mamis who know that
The new season of the Radicals & Revolutionaries podcast dropped with ME! Check out my interview with Jillian J. Foster of @continuumcollective on your favorite podcast app. Tune in here
Submitted to Resurrection of a Badasss Femmes zine To the fuck boys I never loved, I saw you coming a mile away. There were parts of you that I wanted to embrace, because those parts of you reminded me of Him. Mi papi. Because of Him, I knew you intimately,
I have been one to readily reject the idea of learning how to cook. I grew up in a household where women cooked, and that is all they were to do. They were not a part of the decision-making nor what I felt were integral parts of the family dynamics
Article written by Kyli Rodriguez-Cay: link below for the entire piece on BUSTLE my snippet below: "Because so much of my work can be online for the majority of the year, sometimes it feels like I am never 'off.' However, [...] I have become extraordinarily good at putting down my
Article written by Virginia Isaad: link below for the entire piece on FIERCE Latina Rebels founder and all-around fierce Latina Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez is one of the most vocal and prominent feminist Latina writers today. She’s been featured on HuffPost, Guerrilla Feminism, Latina magazine, Everyday Feminism and FIERCE,
I was recently interviewed by one of my favorite podcasts! "On this episode, Yvette and Cynthia interview Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez-- the founder of LatinaRebels. They discuss the current Nicaraguan political crisis and contextualize its history, swap stories of toxic mentors, and Prisca drops knowledge on the true meaning of
The first time I heard about the Young Lords, I was in graduate school. I was entirely too grown to be hearing about what seemed like an important part of my Latinx history in the United States. In this book (which I cannot even recall), the Young Lords were mentioned
I have been put off by the various references to that “creepy” uncle, within Latinx communities. I know I am projecting, but the word creepy as a female in my early thirties only has one connotation, and it invokes fear with sexual undertones. When I call a man creepy, I
Have you ever watched those films back when people went to war, and they would smear paint on their faces? I have. Growing up, I have seen indigenous communities be depicted as wearing war paint (though we know that Hollywood likes to make anyone who is not-white seem like savages
