El Salvador, Female, International, Latinx/Chicanx, Story
How Being Salvadoran Affected Me My story begins in a small town in El Salvador where my parents met and fell in love. After their courtship started my father was drafted into the military to serve in the civil war while my mom stayed back in their small town. As the...
Female, Latinx/Chicanx, Story
Untitled Why are you so happy all the time? I’ve been asked this question numerous times since I have started college, and at first I would just respond, “I don’t know, I just am.” I had never considered why I found myself finding the positive...
Female, Latinx/Chicanx, Story
Untitled Before California announced its State of Emergency drought measures in January of 2014 my father and I had already been collecting rainwater since 2009. My father did not have a college degree but he did have a vision. He landscaped our backyard planting...
Female, Latinx/Chicanx, Story
Self-love as an act of defiance My journey towards self-love was not an easy one. I’d grown up in a society that told me that I should hate myself and everything that made up who I was. I started focusing on self-love when I was 16 after what was one of the...
Latinx/Chicanx, Non-binary/Intersex/Non-conforming/Other, Story
Untitled I kept thinking about how to start, and what was important enough to start with and I really believe that the most fucked up things are always the ones that are most important. And luckily the first thing I can remember is actually pretty fucked up so here we...
