#PRISCA DORCAS

[gtunesmiff]

I wish someone had said, it’s never going to be good enough, so just release it. I turned in [the book manuscript] in September 2020, and it didn’t come out until. 2021, and I spent that whole year crying. I know every sentence that’s a mistake. I know every page that I wish I ripped out that I kept. It’s never enough. You just need to accept it to enjoy the process.

~ Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez || For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts

[pandoricprinxe]

✩•̩̩͙˚ Writeblr Introduction ˚•̩̩͙✩

Hello dear Traveler, it’s your chaotic Prinxe. The name’s Ares Cross (they/xe/ey)! I am new to writeblr, but not new to writing as a whole. I’m a writer, artist and overall creative!

I write adult fiction, specifically in the genres of fantasy, sci-fi, romance and adventure. Currently my main projects are a sci-fantasy book and a fantasy romance book.

I read mostly fantasy and sci-fi with a large dose of romance in whatever book I pick up. My favorite books currently are Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros, and For Brown Girls with Sharp Edge and Tender Hearts by Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez. My favorite shows are Supernatural, Castlevania, Arcane and Good Omens.

I am currently a full-time university student and a part-time writer. I am working on my first novel The World Beyond the Naked Eye which is this year’s NaNoWriMo project! I will be introducing the project soon too!

Happy Halloween Everyone!

[yollocalli]

Listen to this amazing talk on the importance and power of storytelling, writing and using your voice with Prisca Dorcas from Latina Rebels blog at the Port Ministries (Back of the yards). Recorded live March 15th, 2017 as part of Pop Up Youth Radio at Richards Career Academy and CASA Program.

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By Prisca Dorcas

I get a lot of emails of people asking me for tips on how to get into writing and to read their work for them. I think the best advice I have for anyone who wants to write is: know your audience.

This year I wanted to name that person, in case it had not been made clear, who my audience is. This year I named that girl, along with all her intricacies.

[rubyreadsstuff]

I have Indigenous ancestors, and I identify as someone in the Indigenous diaspora, but I realize that when my birth country talks about its people, that includes me, for better or for worse. My immigrant identity is tied to a nation of origin, Nicaragua, whether I like it or not. I do not experience what Indigenous people experience today, in my country and around the world, because I speak the language of my colonizers and have adopted colonizer posturing through generations of forced self-erasure. But I see myself in Indigenous people, and I stand firmly with them. May they not experience the lack of connection to their roots like I do. My oppression and subjugation are not in competition with Black and Indigenous people. Rather, I hope to fight alongside these communities.

For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color by Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez

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“Mi mami tells me to get out of the sun. Mi mami tells me to put on sunblock. Mi mami tells me to not go to the beach so much. But she is not protecting me from skin cancer… She is not telling me to stay out of the sun out of a deep concern for my health. Mi mami does not want me to be too brown.”

- For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts by Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez (2021)

[dynamicteapot]

Because I have my papi’s Brownness but mi mami’s gender, a curse— I was born female and Brown, in a cultura that hates females and especially hates the darker ones.

Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez, “For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts” 

[thingsreadinthedark]

Current reads and updates!

Almost done with Men Without Women which was another fantastic book of short stories by Haruki Murakami! I think I have a few stories left and it overflows with his unique writing style, it’s pensive, humourous and profound in Murakami’s typical style

My Mother’s House is wild. I started reading it yesterday and I think I’m maybe 10% in… it’s a unique story I like that Haiti plays a role in the story. This house is murderous. One of my BOOKCLUB homies put this on my radar awhile back and so far it’s good and engrossing

Decided to give Colson’s Harlem Shuffle another chance at my eyes. It’s good. It’s getting better, I’m almost done and this Linus character is something else. It really makes me wonder how many Black folks in the 50s/60s were burned by the thoughtless actions of their white friends at the turn of the Civil Rights Era.. The story dipped low 65% in the book, but managed to climb the fuck back up at 80%. The story started to pop back off again and I’m curious how this ends at this point. That’s how I started reaching The Archer a few days ago, I got real sick of reading this book so I took a break and had something else, but this one is worth the return right now…

I started For Brown Girls (with sharp edges and tender hearts) a couple months ago because I got the book released to me on Netgalley.. I didn’t read it tho. Sometimes I find the Netgalley formatting too hard/distracting to really get into. However, this book has been released to the public now so I picked up a copy to jump into it since it was so graciously shared with me on Netgalley and I was interested in reading it… Homegirl doesn’t disappoint - Prisca Dorca Mojica Rodriguez is a Nicaraguan-American and so far she has eviscerated the United States for the culture of Volunteerism/Missionary type shit they do in countries that they have a direct hand in creating economic and political strife in. She also sends a hug to black and brown diasporic communities in her intro, it’s beautiful. Second chapter is about the fucked up ways that colorism is perpetuated in the diaspora, especially in her Latinx experience, where this colorism is used to break their linkages to their Indigenous Latinx communities. I love the way that her brain works, how detailed she is, how she centers herself and by doing so centers all of us, Black and Brown folks. I appreciate this book soooo much and I’m only on Chapter 3.

Today I also read the intro to Black Boy Out of Time by Hari Ziyad, bitches get a lot of reading done over 3-4 hours, child!

I didn’t really get as deep into this book as I wanted..

There was a LOT of and I mean A LOT of praise heaped on this book in the opening pages and that was dope to see.. lots of reputable people saying nice things. I know a lot of people don’t read the praise given to authors at the beginning of books, instead choosing to jump right in, but I love those segments where people get their flowers. It also gives me an idea of the circles they’re running in and what people actually like about the person. You can also smell out the euphemisms. I hope to read some more of this book soon. Like look at this high ass praise — they compared this author to James Baldwin and Audre Lorde. I haven’t ever read this person’s work, so this is a selling point to me, but I will be looking at this work with a more critical eye to see if I get the same feelings arising in me once I read this book..

Lastly, I’ve been reading The Power of Nothing to Lose for a minute, probably about a week or two — it’s really good. The author gets into people and situations who change/impacted the world because they felt that they had nothing to lose as they were pushed to the limit or they just had enough of the same old same old, or they just weren’t or were challenged or they weren’t about being told no. I just read a segment on Rosa Parks and Montgomery Bus Boycott and it was illuminating, not any new information, but I do like the lens that these authors are using to walk through these unique historical moments, including current historical moments. The next segment is on that dumb orange fuck, and how he tried to kill people by telling them to drink bleach during this godawful global pandemic. The author is employing a unique approach to telling these stories, this book is kind of a cash grab, but it’s good. Catch the full book cover, it’s good:

I like to get lost in the weeds. I know I been saying that I would attempt to finish some of the other things that I started at the beginning of the summer and now it’s fall, legit first day of fall, but It’s all good.. we making it work and we having fun. I get bored, I read something else. I get curious, I read something else. We keep going..

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An excerpt from Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez's book 'For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color'

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[thongtinsoluoc]

For Brown Girls with Sharp Edge – Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez ePub PDF download https://ift.tt/3qMHqPW

[alaturkanews]

‘Stand tall even if you want to hide in the corner’: Latinx author

‘Stand tall even if you want to hide in the corner’: Latinx author

ABC News' Andrew Dymburt speaks with Latinx author Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez about her new book, “For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color.” ABC News Live Prime, Weekdays at 7EST & 9EST WATCH the ABC News Live Stream Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_Ma8oQLmSM SUBSCRIBE to ABC NEWS: https://bit.ly/2vZb6yP Watch More on http://abcnews.go.com/…

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TOU(TE)S AU SERVICE DU MAÎTRE "Mais à chacun de nous la grâce a été donnée selon la mesure du don de Christ." Éphésiens 4:7 "Veillons les uns sur les autres pour nous stimuler à l'amour et aux bonnes œuvres." Hébreux 10. 24 Si les chrétiens ne travaillent pas tous dans la même mesure à son service, le Seigneur Jésus s'intéresse pourtant à tout ce qui est fait pour lui et apprėcie le dévouement de chacun. Nous n'avons pas tous les mêmes dons, les mêmes capacités, les mêmes occasions de le servir. Le Seigneur nous demande seulement de mettre à sa disposition ce qu'il nous a donné, et comme souvent je vous l'ai partagé, dans ce que nous faisons, c'est le coeur qui compte en premier. Quelques exemples de services rapportés dans la Bible qui devraient nous stimuler : - Un jeune garçon avait cinq pains et deux poissons. Jésus les a utilisés pour nourrir 5000 personnes (Jean 6. 9-13). - Barnabas a vendu un terrain et a mis la somme à la disposition des disciples (Actes 4. 35-37). - Dorcas cousait, selon ses capacitės, des vêtements pour des veuves démunies (Actes 9. 39). - Lydie, la marchande de pourpre, a reçu l'apôtre Paul et ses compagnons dans sa maison. (Actes 16. 14, 15). - Phoebé, comme servante de l'assemblée, a été une aide pour Paul et pour beaucoup d'autres croyants (Romains 16. 1). - Prisca et Aquilas, collaborateurs de l'apôtre Paul, ont risqué leur vie pour lui (Romains 16. 3, 4). Tous ces chrétiens travaillaient pour le même Maître et à chacun d'eux il dira un jour : "Bien, bon et fidèle serviteur; tu as été fidèle en ce qui est peu, je t'établirai sur beaucoup: entre dans la joie de ton maître" (Matthieu 25. 21). Nous sommes pas tous apôtres, prophètes ou docteurs. Nous ne faisons pas tous des miracles et n'avons pas tous le don des guérisons, mais tous nous sommes appelés à suivre les traces de Christ jusqu'au jour de notre rencontre avec Lui. En attendant Sa venue, demeurons fidèles dans ce qu'il nous confie et aspirons aux dons les meilleurs pour l'édification du peuple de Dieu et la gloire de Son nom. Que Dieu renouvelle nos forces et que Sa Parole encourage notre zèle à le servir, amen. https://www.instagram.com/p/CON2DtSlkwK/?igshid=krntepdpjcxy

[philaprint]

"Good Girls vs. Bad Girls: The False Binary" by Prisca Dorcas. Read now on zine.philaprint.com. #PPWZine

[weareelfuturo]

Dear Woke Brown Girl

You are eternal. You are neither here nor there, but everywhere. You carry the hood in your veins and academia in your heart. You have not forgotten where you come from, but have learned and earned your way into spaces not meant for you. Spaces that are uninviting to your kind. You are poderosa like that. Your vocabulary is vast and your wit is sharp. You are unstoppable. You feel everything and feel nothing. You carry loads of pain for the displacement you’ve felt due to your need to question everything. But have had to accept living that confused and living that awake because once you’ve heard your chains rattle, you cannot unhear them. You do this for you, but you also do this for your mami and your papi and your little hermanita who does not seem to understand herself outside the boxes that our cultura has placed her in. You belong to no one but are accountable to many. La Raza depends on you. Do not let anyone else tell you differently. You complicate respectability politics and you do not give a fuck that you are doing it. Do you, woke brown girl. You have a fire that is burning inside of you, and that comes from your mothers side. You are going places that no one in your family has ever been and you are fearful of your fearlessness. Your laugh carries liberation in it. Men try to pin you down, have tried to claim you, but you have resisted because you are not meant to belong to anyone. You belong entirely to yourself. No one can hold that much glitter in their hands. Glitter is messy and overpowering and beautiful. Woke brown girl, you are remarkable. Your parents brag about your brilliance all while exhorting you to be more like their friend’s daughters, who have husbands and children. But it is because you are groundbreaking, that they do not know what to do with their woke brown girl. They have not been able to hold your fire for some time now, but it is okay because it is your turn to hold them in your heart and in your mind as you dismantle oppressive structures that have kept your parents down. But not you, woke brown girl, so you owe it to them to keep fighting. That day you stood up in class, and demanded, yes YOU made demands of your white male professor, on that day you recalled your ancestors who resisted and defied all odds by surviving and thriving and continuing. Remember them. Remember us. Woke brown girl, do not let them take away your passion. And boy will they try, without any compassion, to keep you down. But remember that without passion you will extinguish, and if for some reason you do and you might, there will be other woke brown girls to pick you and light you up again.

Because, woke brown girl, we need each other. * inspired by foremother: Anzaldua.

By Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/prisca-dorcas-mojica-rodriguez/dear-woke-brown-girl_b_9209662.html

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The nesting dolls are all done! So the entire set is (from biggest to smallest): Actresses- Rita Moreno, Rosario Dawson, and Lupita Nyong'o Activists- Dolores Huerta, Sylvia Rivera, and Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez Scientists- Ellen Ochoa, Helen Rodriguez Trias, and Antonia Novello Singers- Celia Cruz, Selena, and Shakira Each tiny doll represents a young Latina who sees herself in the Latinas who came before her, each of whom paved the way for future generations. This was a fun project to go with a paper I was glad to write. Next up will be my presentation to the class, which has a Sombra (from Overwatch) theme.