In Bruja, Wendy C. Ortiz allows us into the most private corners of her mind. Published in October 2016, this is not quite an exploration of her dreams, as she doesn’t give her interpretation of them, and not quite a memoir but a dreamoir. The dreamoir is defined as “a narrative derived from the most malleable and revelatory details of ... Read More »

The author, Beryl Gilroy explores chattel slavery, classicism, identity and feminism in the novel. Thomas Inkle is the protagonist you hate but respect. He is a young man from the British upper class that believes he comes from a superior race/nation. Inkle states “our civilization is superior and permanent. I hold others to be ephemeral-and at times grotesque that is ... Read More »

Kenia Nunez, Corona, Queens native and Latina wellness coach, published her first book in 2014. Surrendering: When Pain is Transformed Into Extraordinary Blessings was a collection of musings about Kenia’s awakening to her purpose in life after losing her husband to cancer. She was left to raise three children and face the ongoing depression she had been running from for ... Read More »

Hunger, written by one of my favorite authors Roxane Gay, is a memoir, where she lets us in what her life has been like living and navigating this world as heavyset woman. “This is a memoir of my body. My body was broken. I was broken. I did not know how to put myself back together. I was splintered. A ... Read More »

A year ago, after finishing my second session of Writing our Lives with Vanessa Martir and returning from VONA I decided to create a book and writing club: The Musa Writing and Reading Group, a group that will not only benefit me as a writer but that will benefit other women who like me are writers but wear numerous hats ... Read More »

For the past year I have been working with a group of incredible women on a project about street harassment titled Elephant. The idea behind this video is to reclaim our bodies> Elephant a short choreo-film entirely produced by women of color against street harassment. The video is the collective effort of a group of interdisciplinary artists from New York ... Read More »

January is a rough month for me. I lost my mother January 25, 2002 four days after her 56th birthday, when she lost her battle with colon cancer, the grief is twice the weight. For the past 15 years, January reminds me of not being able to celebrate my mother’s birthday among other milestones and it is also the reminder ... Read More »

Last Summer, my friends and I along with each other’s families got together for our annual beach day. Our friendship has transcended the test of time and now we have become family.  It is a tradition we began building about four or five years ago. We are now parents and our kids get along so well they call each other ... Read More »

           On the last day of 2016, as usual, I followed Mami and Abuelita’s tradition: woke up early to clean the entire house: top to bottom, smudged and prayed, washed all the clothes and bed sheets and put on new ones. During breaks, my sisters and I messaged each other on our group chat to check ... Read More »

What’s New ? Our CEO and founder Wendy Angulo has joined the Queens Book Festival as their Latino Community Liaison and Communications Director. Read below this exclusive interview with our partners Sofrito for your Soul. http://www.sofritoforyoursoul.com/the-queen-of-queens-wendy-angulo-joins-the-queens-book-festival/ Read More »