MEET THE AUTHORS
Angela Briones
Making Rainbows Instead of Waves
"I have learned that my voice is my most powerful tool."
Karola Castro
Soy Lo Que Mis Ancestros Soñaron
"La decisión de dejar de vivir definida por mis pérdidas y comenzar a construir desde mis posibilidades."
Melany del Carpio
It’s All About Me
"It took my body begging me for change for me to realize the most important relationship I forgot to nurture, with myself."
Erika Dox-Martinez
Beautiful Girl, You Can Do Hard Things
"You need one hard thing, done scared, and then the willingness to do the next one."
Thelma Federico Zaragoza
Gorda
"I had to wake up from this stupor and find the strength to make the right choices for myself."
Yazmin Garcia
Finding Yourself After Self-Deportation
"There isn't one definition of success we all have to follow."
Edith G. Gil
No Roadmap. Still, I Danced.
"Sometimes people don’t lack ambition. They lack exposure."
Kat Lopez Shelby
Community Is a Verb: Finding Family, Belonging, and Purpose Beyond Blood
"Discovering that sometimes the family who helps you become the person you're meant to be isn't the one you were born into, it's the one you build."
Vanessa Macias
LGBTQue?
Between Borders and Coming Out
"The distance had given me something I had never truly experienced before: the freedom to discover who I was without constantly fearing someone else's judgment."
Lorena Mejia
A Chocolate Covered Red Apple
"Chasing an opportunity isn't entitlement, especially when you’ve earned it with your sweat and tears, and at times, literally"
Alexis Moreno
All the Feels: Accepting My Wounds to Uncover a Path Forward
"The shift was that I no longer required a complete map before choosing myself."
Dr. Vanessa Nazario
Navigating the Crossroads: A Latina’s Journey by Owning Her Power
"I realized that my early days in a low-income community were not a liability—they were the source of my empathy and the engine of my advocacy for those who cannot advocate for themselves, whether due to access or resources.."
Carmen Noonan
Remembering My Chingona
How I Stopped Shrinking and Started Belonging to Myself
"To become not only resilient, but free."
Erika Padilla
To My Daughters: The Legacy I Hope to Leave Behind
"No matter what life brings, tienen todo en ustedes mismas para empezar de nuevo."
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Casa de Chingonas is where love is loud, truth is louder, and you are free to be yourself. This anthology is a collective playbook, real stories and real strategies from women who stopped shrinking and started making moves that rewrote their narrative.
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