I must begin by naming the limitations of my perspective: I am a first-generation, U.S.-born, Mexican-American mestiza, or a light-skinned mixed-race person. For me, that means a primarily Indigenous heritage, with more Spanish than African ancestry. I was born in the Rio Grande Valley borderlands to a mixed-status working-class immigrant family and raised in […]
Author Archives: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
Vanessa is an author and writer. Follow her on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Vanessid.