Big Chicas Don't Cry

by Annette Chavez Macias

couldn’t win either way. As a kid, I was ashamed about not being white enough. But as an adult, I was ashamed for not being Mexican enough. In fact, I was so not Mexican that a privileged white racist asshole felt comfortable enough to date me.

When will you learn that living with something you don’t love is not living at all?”

holding on to only the bad things that happened to us leaves us too tired to enjoy the good.”