Women are the womb of humanity. Our objective is to increase awareness among readers of an entire literary tradition in Hispanic culture. We'd like to see readers from all backgrounds plug into the Latina experience. Because there is a wonderful universality to the work of Latina authors. These gatekeepers, who make decisions about what gets published, are either not doing their homework or their views are very narrow.
Diversity is here and too big, too important to ignore.
It's about erasing artificial borders. Part of the mainstream, but still unique, says Santos-Febres. Everything to do with the body, they labeled a sin. These were not happy people. We don't have that history of thinking the head is separated from the body, that the head is what counts and the body doesn't matter.