Story: Every May, While Children Celebrate Their Moms, I Commemorate Paloma, The First Daughter I Lost By Miscarriage It is hard to forget “firsts.” You’ll always remember the name of your first partner, your first crush and your first kiss, and you won’t shake the memory of the first
Feature: LR Interview with PRI Title: Latina Rebels turn to memes, humor to rethink media on hot-button issues "When Prisca Dorcas, founder of Latina Rebels, was in graduate school at mostly white Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, frequent
Story: To My Gringo 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
Story: To the mamis with difficult daughters… 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,
Feature: Interview w/ RnR Lab 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
Story: To the fuck boys I never loved Submitted to Resurrection of a Badasss Femmes zineTo 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
Story: Fighting Sexism en la Cocina 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
Feature: 10 Self-Employed Women Share What They Do Every Day For Work-Life Balance 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
Feature: Nicaraguan Escritoras Whose Works You Won’t Be Able To Put Down Article written by Virginia Isaad: link below for the entire piece on FIERCELatina Rebels founder and all-around fierce Latina Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez is one of the most vocal and prominent feminist Latina
Feature: Interview with the Cerebronas 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
Story: My Reflections on the Young Lords and Why They Matter More Than Ever 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
Story: Creepy Uncle (TW: Sexual Assault) 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
Story: Lipstick 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
Story: Dear Woke Brown Girl You are eternal. You are neither here nor there, but everywhere. You carry the hood in your veins and academia in your heart. You have not forgotten where you come from, but have
Story: I Am Not Better Than Mi Mami I am the first in the my family to do a lot of things, like go to college and get a graduate degree. And all my accolades began to go to my head.
Feature: Bustle Must Follow Latinx Edition Article Feature about me written on Bustle, link below for the entire piece on their site Bustle’s Must Follow series highlights the game-changing voices we're excited to follow on social media. And
Story: Mi Futuro Esposo And What Mi Mami Wanted For Me I think a lot about what it meant to grow up idealizing my future husband. Recently, I sat with a friend and we spoke about how similar our childhoods were. We are both
NEWS: Book! I participated in an anthology: Nevertheless, We Persisted "A powerful collection of essays from actors, activists, athletes, politicians, musicians, writers, and teens, including Senator Amy Klobuchar, actress Alia Shawkat, actor Maulik Pancholy,
NEWS: New Project: Podcast, “Spiked Tea Time” I started a podcast with some friends, and would love to have you all tune in! An ordained reverend, a member of the kink community, and a Latina Rebel talk sex, politics, mental
Story: The Church Robbed Me of My Childhood I grew up going to church ALL the time. My birth story ends with my mami going to church from the hospital wearing her still bloodied maternity dress to worship. I was raised