The Hypersexualization of Latinas in Television and Film
If you’ve attended one of my talks or read Hijas or even hung around this blog much, you know that I can get way worked up real fast about the […]
Things I Want Baby to Know # 2
We too often love things and use people when we should love people and use things.
Things I Want Baby to Know #42
Life keeps handing you the lesson you need to learn until you learn it. Ignoring the problem won’t make it go away. It will only amplify the volume of the […]
What role can we/ should we play in our family's nutrition?
This question has come to the forefront of my mind with the addition of a baby to our family. After a severe bout with hypoglycemia in my mid-20s, I became […]
Please consider being a M'ija
In the first four days after we launched our efforts to get at least 75 women to support at least 8 girls in the Circle de Luz Class of 2015, […]
Read Green
In honor of Earth Day and Inspired Tuesday, I want to recommend two books to you by a colleague and friend, Jodi Helmer. Go green one day at a time. […]
Insights
So, when I was in high school, I went on a leadership retreat and one of the tasks we were given was to go off with one other person and […]
An activist's autobiography, part 1
For a project that I have been developing, I wrote a list of questions to serve as an activist’s autobiography. Here I answer the first five […]
Air travel as baby labor
I loathe flying. Seriously loathe it. There’s a moment of sheer panic for me in every flight (if not multiple moments). So it comes as no surprise that psyching myself […]
Reflecting
So Mondays on Hijas Americanas are dedicated to reflection, self-awareness, self-esteem, identity (because all those things play into becoming our fully realized best selves; beautiful ‘us’es if you will). […]
