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My White Ex-Husband By Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez

My White Ex-Husband By Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez

At age 22 marrying a white man had everything to do with his whiteness.  By the time I was 22 years old I believed every lie that white supremacy indoctrinates everyone into: whiteness is better.  I believed that lie that white men are superior to any other race and ethnicity.

A Letter To the 'Rich Minimalists' by Amanda Tello

A Letter To the 'Rich Minimalists' by Amanda Tello

To the Rich Minimalist from a Poor one, I hear you speak to how liberating minimalism is. How you gave up your six figures a year job, sold all of your possessions, moved into a small living space and now you feel free. I squirm uncomfortably in my seat when

Mujeres March For America

Mujeres March For America

This Saturday, January 21, 2017 will mark a historic time across the nation. The Women’s March will bring out hundreds of thousands of women, possibly over indexing pass the million mark. Women of all ages, backgrounds and ethnic, religious origins will march in solidarity and in the spirit of

The Creepy Uncle

The Creepy Uncle

I have been put off by the various references to that “creepy” uncle, within Latinx communities.  I know I am projecting, but the word creepy as a female in my early thirties only has one connotation, and it invokes fear with sexual undertones.  When I call a man creepy, I

Positive Action for Latinx During These Turbulent Times

Positive Action for Latinx During These Turbulent Times

We got 365 days. 365 days! Hands up ??  for massive transformation in 2017. Through the years, I have taken quantum leaps into becoming more self aware, fixing those blind spots and ‘decolonizing’ the mind…the diet is next 😉 For instance, I thought the creators of feminism were the ‘Spice Girls’

Students of Color In Elite Institutions

Students of Color In Elite Institutions

Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez, Contributing Writer When you enter spaces meant for the elites, when you enter spaces meant for that small percentage of the population, when you enter spaces spaces that have almost exclusively been dominated and ran by white people YOU begin to change.  When you enter institutions

Not Cultural Brownness

Not Cultural Brownness

Latinidad is an ethnicity, it is a name given to people from an ancestral line that is traced to the Caribbean and/or Latin America. It is a descriptor, a check in a box; it is something that is not up for debate, you’re either Latinx or you’re

Undocumented, Educated and Unafraid

Undocumented, Educated and Unafraid

Gloria Rinconi Within a few weeks, my time as an intern with My (Un)documented life blog will come to an end. Yet it has given me the opportunity to be a voice for a community that is 11 million strong, hard working immigrants that are in search of the

#Hence Is A Thing

#Hence Is A Thing

Here, at SupaDaily we were absolutely appalled (<—yes, it’s a ‘scholarly’ word, we use) to learn that a fellow woman of color was disrespected and falsely called out for plagiarism because a word, a word – ‘HENCE’ did not sound like a word she would say?! Tiffany Corin Martínez,

Gus. That Guy. - A Personal Essay

Gus. That Guy. - A Personal Essay

Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez Contributing Writer This is for those moments of dissonance.  This is for those moments that you cannot name what bugged you about someone’s statement, but you know it was not right.  This is for those moments that leave you silent, when you’re that person

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