A M'ija to Meet: Guadalupe-Elena, Mexican American
What I love about being Latina: Our food, our celebrations, our traditions, our way of thinking outside the box not because we need too but because we have been taught […]
A M'ija to Meet: Cari, Puerto Rican
What I love about being Latina: I believe that as Latinas, we women have a certain air of mystique. There is a mysterious nature about our culture or beliefs that […]
A M'ija to Meet: Betsy, Chicana
What I love about being Latina: Big family gatherings — hearing English, Spanish, Spanglish and everything in between! Traveling to new places throughout Mexico and still feeling at home! How […]
A M'ija to Meet: Angela, Mexican-American
What I love about being Latina: I love being able to experience more than one dimension of culture. Everything is more complex when you are exposed to boundaries outside of […]
A M'ija to Meet: Lisa, Puerto Rican and 1/8 Peruvian
What I love about being Latina: Our culture. Between history, food, music, language and everything else under the sun, it’s hard not to be a proud Latina. What I love […]
Want to be a M'ija to Meet?
The Thursday feature on the Hijas Americanas blog is “A M’ija to Meet.” It features the views of a Latina from anywhere in America. Would you like to be A […]
A M'ija to Meet: Michelle, Spanish-American
What I love about being Latina: I love everything. My brown skin, even though it is light. My brown hair, my brown eyes. My curvy body. I love my connection […]
A M'ija to Meet: Amada, Dominicana
What I love about being Latina: I love having curves and being proud of them!!! What I love about being Americana: I love being able to have a Spanglish conversation […]
A M'ija to Meet: Mary, Mexican
This week’s M’ija, Mary Castillo, is from the literary world and just published a new book, Names I Call My Sister. Check her out here and then check her […]
A M'ija to Meet: Krysia, Peruvian, Polish, Scottish, and English
What I love about being Latina: What’s not to love? I can dance, I can cook, I can speak Spanish (though not always so gracefully!), I have curves, and I […]
