M’ijas

A M'ija to Meet:  Maria, Nicaraguan, Vietnamese, and Chinese

A M'ija to Meet: Maria, Nicaraguan, Vietnamese, and Chinese

What I love about being Latina : The Hispanic family is united and in everyone’s business. The women in my family keep the web united. Everyone helps each other and […]

A M'ija to Meet:  Brenda, Colombiana

A M'ija to Meet: Brenda, Colombiana

What I love about being Latina: I am born of Latin roots.  My heritage sculpted from brown, indigenous earth.  The waters that carried an enslaved people fill my nocturnal dreams, […]

A M'ija to Meet:  Jo, Cuban and Chicana

A M'ija to Meet: Jo, Cuban and Chicana

What I love about being Latina: The fluidity of language, culture, community and knowing that, almost anywhere, I can find community and be grateful in having those moments of solidarity […]

A M'ija to Meet:  Claudette, Honduran

A M'ija to Meet: Claudette, Honduran

What I love about being Latina:  The way we talk with our whole bodies, not just our mouths.  What I love about being Americana:  The way I can be whomever […]

A M'ija to Listen to...

A M'ija to Listen to…

Carrie Rodriguez, singer-songwriter-violinist, is in the midst of her first international headlining tour after the release of her debut album, Seven Angels on a Bicycle.  Her coming-of-age story is featured […]

A M'ija to Meet:  Stephanie, Colombian and Dominican

A M'ija to Meet: Stephanie, Colombian and Dominican

What I love about being Latina: My herencia: the richness that encompasses our culture, language, traditions, the fact that within the “Latin culture” there are quite a variety of subcultures […]