Tagged: nonfiction
In Mexican-American culture, a chingón is known as a “badass”. In the feminine form, however, chingona means unruly woman, or a woman who is problematic. First-generation scholar Alma Zaragoza-Petty encourages women to reclaim that word. We should own it and use that badassery to heal from our own trauma and …
Queer people have existed for all of recorded history, but unfortunately they haven’t been included in that record. In fact, they are often written out of it. Even recognizable figures have partaken in intimate relations with the same sex. But those events were conveniently scrapped out of written texts. Kirsty …