EP173: For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts
Let's Talk About It With Taylor Nolan
Wave Podcast Network
3.4 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2021
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
This week Taylor has Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez, author of For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts and founder of the Latina Rebels Instagram page, on the show. They talk about what voluntourism is and what kind of harm it can cause. Prisca shares her experience of growing up in Nicaragua and some calls to action for folks to take in their home country. Taylor and Prisca discuss the white gaze and just how deep it can cut. They also get into all the kinds of therapy and Prisca’s Instagram page Latina Rebels.
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Prisca’s Book: https://www.priscadorcas.com/preorder-my-book-2
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Let's Talk About It. This is Taylor, your host and you are in for |
| 0:10.4 | quite a treat today because the guest today is just fantastic. I could not speak more highly |
| 0:18.1 | of her and the work that she is doing and I am so thrilled to share her with all of you |
| 0:24.1 | lovely listeners. So let's honestly get straight to it because I love her. So today's guest is |
| 0:33.0 | and forgive me if my pronunciation is not the best. I have said her name repeatedly and so it might |
| 0:43.7 | not sound perfect but I'm trying. So our guest is Prisca Dorcas Mujica, Radarigas and I hope I |
| 0:52.8 | said that all right. She was born in Nicaragua but she calls Nashville Tennessee home. She got her |
| 0:59.8 | masters of affinity from Vanderbilt University and the bulk of her work is around making the theories |
| 1:06.8 | and heavy material that is often only taught in racist and classist institutions known as academia |
| 1:13.4 | accessible. Today she's published over 200 articles online and participated in the young adult |
| 1:20.1 | anthology. Nevertheless, we persisted. Recently she also participated in an anthology edited |
| 1:28.4 | by Linda Lopez titled The Fearless Rise and Powerful Resonance of Alexandra Acasio Cortez. |
| 1:36.6 | And you'll actually might already be familiar with Prisca. If you follow Latina Rebels on Instagram |
| 1:43.2 | which she started in 2013, you might be familiar with some of her work because I've followed |
| 1:51.3 | Latina Rebels for so long now and love everything they post there and currently it's got over 300,000 |
| 1:58.5 | organic followers online. She's been in half post. She's been invited to the White House. She is |
| 2:05.7 | so unapologetic. She's angry and she is uncompromising and protecting and uncompromising about protecting |
| 2:13.6 | and upholding the stories of Latinx communities. She just really makes me feel even more |
| 2:20.5 | emboldened in my stuff and so I just feel such a kindred spirit with her and have loved getting |
| 2:27.2 | to know her and feel so so very special to have a friendship with her. So with all of that said, |
| 2:33.2 | let's get into it y'all. She published a book. Holy moly. She published a book and it is a |
| 2:41.3 | may-zene for brown girls with sharp edges and tender hearts. I mean that's that's my book. That's |
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