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Writing for Powerful Girls

I write about strong girls, no apologies here. It doesn’t matter what anybody tells me about how boys read stories with main characters that are male. How sad for them, I think. Maybe what they need is to meet a gutsy Latina on the page to make them forget all that silliness. Besides, I’m after …

Telling Our Story

I’m the author in my family, but the truth is that no one I’ve ever met was a better storyteller than my grandmother, Benita Metauten. She left school after the eighth grade and rolled cigars in rural Cuba until she married. By the time she died at the age of 99, she had weathered the …

The Teachers of America:  Doing a Difficult Job!

The statistics that Aurelia Flores cites in Powerful Latinas regarding Latinas/os in the American work force are striking indeed. Our society is increasingly complex, and—because of our increasing numbers in the general population—it’s inevitable that Latinas/os will be working longer work weeks with the passage of years, as they represent more and more of the …

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