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ISBN: 978-1-961717-23-7
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SOMOS XICANAS
Edited by Luz Schweig (Riot of Roses Publishing House, Fall 2024) What does it really mean to be a Xicana? This anthology offers a space for the assertion, exploration and cultivation of a proud Xicana identity. It delivers messages about race, culture, class, economy, sexuality and spirituality within historical, political and personal contexts. Somos Xicanas echoes the collective voice of the Xicana community as a whole, while simultaneously celebrating the co-existence of multiple subjectivities alive within each of the contributions. These are a few of the varied lenses through which readers may appreciate the multiple layers of complex identities that make up what it means to be a Xicana, as expressed through the writings of Xicanas themselves.
This wildly anticipated, multi-genre anthology illuminates both the enduring and the new Xicana identity, presence and culture through the voices of 80 Xicanas, including Xicana trailblazers like Ana Castillo, Sandra Cisneros, 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. The majority of the proceeds of this book will be donated to independent presses and projects that honor and support Xicana voices. ♥️) |
Many of these photographs were taken by Jorge Piñeda of Cultura 78 Studios
at the Somos Xicanas book launch on December 14th, 2024.
at the Somos Xicanas book launch on December 14th, 2024.
REVIEWS & OTHER PRESS
(To read the full articles, click on journal names in bold below )
EL PÁIS Interview with Luz Schweig by Marisol Jiménez, April, 2025
KPBS Midday Edition, "Chicano Park commemorates over five decades of resilience" by Jade Hindmon and Julianna Domingo (A conversation with poets, Gaby Moreno and Natalia Rivas, and publisher Brenda Vaca), April 17, 2025
32 Powerful Books on Resistance and Visibility by Osmani R. Alacraz-Ochoa, Mijente, February 5, 2025
Chapter House Journal Interview with Luz Schweig by Rey M. Rodríguez, February 5, 2025
Somos Xicanas Anthology Comentario por Xánath Caraza," La Bloga, January 26, 2025
The Books we Loved in 2024, Voices of Monterey Bay (VOMB), December 31, 2024
A Visual History of Chicano/a/x Literature (2024), Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez
"Somos Xicanas Anthology Comentario por Xánath Caraza," Monolito December 14, 2024
Somos Xicanas on La Comuna Online: La Poesia del Poder/ Poetry of Womanist Power, December 11, 2024
LLB2's Most Anticipated Books of 2024, by Laura Villareal, Letras Latinas Blog 2, January 25, 2024
