Big Chicas Don't Cry

by Annette Chavez Macias

Be the chingona of your own life.”

“El Chisme Book,”

“Besides, you’re not Latina Latina. You’re, I don’t know, a toned-down Latina. That’s different.”

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.

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