COMING DECEMBER 14th, 2024! 

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SOMOS XICANAS
Edited by Luz Schweig
(Riot of Roses Publishing House, Fall 2024)

This wildly anticipated, multi-genre anthology illuminates both the enduring and the new Xicana identity, presence and culture through the voices of over 70 Xicanas, including Xicana trailblazers like Ana Castillo, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Irene I. Blea, Carmen Tafolla, and the 24th poet laureate of the United States, Ada Limón. Other contributors include poet laureates Melinda Palacio,  ire'ne lara silva and Angie Trudell Vasquez, along with the first Queer/Muxer Chair of el Partido Nacional La Raza Unida, La Doctora Chola, Vanessa Marie Bustamante. 

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OUR PUBLISHER

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BRENDA VACA

Riot of Roses Publishing House  was established in the autumn of 2021 by author Brenda Vaca, to amplify the stories of historically silenced voices. It is​ a Xicana-owned, mujerista-focused, for-the-people press, dedicated to producing books that heal and liberate others.

RIOT OF ROSES

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