LatinoLit

Policy change is the tip of the pyramid, and our Community’s Cultural Capital is the base.

I became a kingpin of contraband prose.

The time is now.

Books that include diverse characters and reflect the lives of these kids can get them reading and give them a sense of belonging, in school and in society at large.

Spewing lies and policies/Backed by white supremacy 

This is a tremendous win for the AfroLatinas and Dominicanas everywhere who found themselves in the story of young Xiomara.

Who doesn’t like pupusas, who doesn’t dance cumbias, who refused to have a quinceañera because I always disliked dresses and pink shit.

Keeping it real.

I’ve never understood my mother’s paranoia when she hears certain words.

Will we unpack lies/that stigmatize, criminalize and dehumanize

Don’t sell us your mythology/Call it what it is

Radical activists/Speaking truths

Don’t you hear the cries?

“The resulting characterization of Díaz as a dangerous and aggressive sexual predator from whom all women must be protected reinforces racist stereotypes that cast Blacks and Latinxs as having an animalistic sexual ‘nature.'”

The award-winning author, recognizing his protected status, based his career and existence on misogyny, to the point that he could no longer differentiate the sexism portrayed in his fiction from his real life mistreatment of women—particularly women of color.

“We are not the stories that people who are full of hate tell about us”

I have always been nervous about visiting my old neighborhood.

¡Viva México! ¡Viva Irlanda!

This is Urrea, a hell of a writer who’s wickedly funny, writes sex scenes like Neruda, and constructs his 60-plus-years narrative with the care of an urban planner.

My father told me things/As I came of age

My mother Carmen often sent me to La Paloma Market, while my brother Salomon watched I Love Lucy reruns.