About a year and a half ago, Prisca Dorcas Mohica Rodriguez, revealed to me that she was working on her second book, and now it is here, and it is phenomenal.

Tias and Primas on knowing and loving the women who

raise us is a sort of love letter to the women who hold our families together. Priska and I talk

about all the archetypes, La Loka, the WhatsApp Tia, La Prima Perfecta, and how Prisca herself made

life choices, leaving a marriage, choosing not to have children that launched her from one archetype

to another.

We also talk about the reality of being women who are still very much in progress and the pressure to be okay.

Pizska, thank you so much for being here.

Thank you for having me.

Tell me, Prisca, about either your favorite Tia or your favorite Prima.

I like them all.

But there was something redemptive about writing,

Toia la Loka.

When I speak up in my family, they're very Christian.

There's a lot of,

let's go to that for thee.

And so it feels so dismissive.

There's like an element of being shut out because you're thinking outside the box that we're all supposed to think within.

Especially because you're very clear.

Latia Loka, it's not that she actually has mental health issues.

It's that she's dismissed as being wild because she doesn't adhere to the standards of her family or her community. But I think that line gets blurred.

I think that people sometimes think there's something legitimately wrong with that woman when the only thing that is quote unquote wrong with her is that she's seeking her own freedom.

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