Welcome

Chicana Musings*, this personal blog that I hope to use to create community, is a seed that was planted almost as if carried by the wind and rooted by accident. Truthfully, an annoying seed that nags at you, until you listen. In the Spring of 2014, I took a class in the Ethnic Studies department at San Francisco State focusing on different Latinx and Chicanx writers. You are probably thinking, this matters why? 2014 was 7 years ago. This class was the first time I had seen poetry and short stories in English and Spanish that truly captured experiences I had trouble articulating. I was encouraged to write about some really difficult topics, and as things started pouring out of me, words appearing on the blank paper, it terrified me. It was like therapy that I didn’t know I had signed up for. Seeing the words staring back at me meant dealing with the reality that I lived them, and I was not ready for that. Too scared to deal with it, let alone say it out loud, I wrote sparingly, jotting down a thought here or there, which brings me full circle to that annoying nagging seed. I am finally telling that seed that I am ready to give it the sun, water, and nutrients it has been asking for.

My hope through Chicana Musings is to connect via poems, short stories drawing from my life, the people I have met, the places I have seen, the dreams that I hold dear to my heart, artists that inspire me and information that may be useful to someone wherever it may find them. Gracias por estar aquí en esta nueva aventura.

Please be aware some of these stories may be best for a mature audience and I will continuously do my best to write warnings for sensitive topics. If I have fallen short, please let me know and I will do my best to correct it or learn how I can do better. 

*Chicana: an American woman or girl of Mexican origin or descent.