Thread by @NatalieLima09, For #LatinxHeritageMonth I’m posting some favorite essays and stories by emerging Latinx [...]

For #LatinxHeritageMonth I’m posting some favorite essays and stories by emerging Latinx voices.

Will add to this thread periodically as I remember pieces.

First, some flash fiction. Dollhead by @Vanessa_LaLoba in @SmokeLong http://www.smokelong.com/dollhead/

Dollhead | SmokeLong Quarterly

I was up in the plum tree when I saw him climbing over the piles of trash—plywood with rusted nails jutting out at weird angles, tires and license plates, bushes that pushed through all that trash.

http://www.smokelong.com/dollhead/

Here I have a personal essay by @emillygprado for @onshegoes http://www.onshegoes.com/stories/between-two-worlds/

Finding a Sense of Belonging as a Mexican American — On She Goes

What does belonging to a place mean when you’re Mexican American? Emilly Prado explores what it means to exist between two worlds.

http://www.onshegoes.com/stories/between-two-worlds/

The One-Eyed Bat! by @yalitzawrites in @asterixjournal

Which is extra special right now since I just read she won the Rona Jaffe today!

https://asterixjournal.com/the-one-eyed-bat/

The One-Eyed Bat! - Aster(ix) Journal

The guy I’m dating in Ann Arbor is The One-Eyed Bat! He wrestles with a mask over one eye. He’s from a Mayflower family in Massachusetts, and he goes to Mexico to wrestle Lucha Libre-style. He jumps...

https://asterixjournal.com/the-one-eyed-bat/

This time a poem by @johnmanuelarias in @TinderboxPoetry

http://tinderboxpoetry.com/space-ghost-coast-to-coast

this essay by @lizzhuerta but also go read some of her short stories:

Hooters Chicken in @The_Rumpus https://therumpus.net/2017/10/hooters-chicken/

Hooters Chicken

I applied for a job at Hooters on a dare a few weeks before my nineteenth birthday. A shoe salesman who worked across from me at the mall told me he’d pay me twenty dollars to apply.

https://therumpus.net/2017/10/hooters-chicken/

This essay about Laura Aguilar by @raquefella in @thenewinquiry https://thenewinquiry.com/a-vessel-among-vessels-for-laura-aguilar/

A Vessel Among Vessels: For Laura Aguilar

Aguilar, the photographer and chronicler of brown life who centered lesbians and her own corpulent body, passed away in April in Southern California. Her death from complications from diabetes was …

https://thenewinquiry.com/a-vessel-among-vessels-for-laura-aguilar/

She has a book but I’m including her because I’ve been in love w/ this essay since it was published: Beach City by @jaquiradiaz in Brevity

https://brevitymag.com/nonfiction/beach-city/

Now @jesilfa on Me Too: https://medium.com/@jesilfa/you-are-not-removed-from-this-a5d6d6621fbc

You Are Not Removed From This

First of all, me too.

https://medium.com/@jesilfa/you-are-not-removed-from-this-a5d6d6621fbc

Of course @MarcosSGonsalez in @CatapultStory:

We Barrio Boys and Our Papi Chulo Philosophics https://catapult.co/stories/papi-chulo-philosophics-masculinities-barrio-marcos-santiago-gonsalez

We Barrio Boys and Our Papi Chulo Philosophics | Marcos Gonsalez

Who are we if not kin through our deviations? Street hustler and femme queen, macho and maricóncito, variations on a chulo aesthetic.

https://catapult.co/stories/papi-chulo-philosophics-masculinities-barrio-marcos-santiago-gonsalez

And @kativanovwrites’ short story in @JoylandMagazine:

When The Plows Come

http://www.joylandmagazine.com/regions/west/when-plows-come

An essay by Rose Heredia @Bkwriter4life in @epifaniamag: https://epifaniamagazine.com/culture/my-spiritual-journey-rose-heredia/

My Spiritual Journey By: Rose Heredia

Last year, I attended a yoga retreat for my birthday in which I took a yoga and meditation workshop at the Ananda Meditation Retreat center. On the train to Nevada City, I contemplated what my...

https://epifaniamagazine.com/culture/my-spiritual-journey-rose-heredia/

A short story excerpy by @damleon24

The Wrestler https://www.montereycountyweekly.com/news/cover_collections/an-excerpt-of-a-short-story-by-a-salinas-native/article_336de9f6-eae4-11e9-9349-ab25c21c957a.html

An excerpt of a short story by a Salinas native about high-schoolers – and queer identity – in East...

WE BEAT ALVAREZ BY EIGHT POINTS. Some of our JV wrestlers walk with their families towards the exit like they don’t have to help clean up.

https://www.montereycountyweekly.com/news/cover_collections/an-excerpt-of-a-short-story-by-a-salinas-native/article_336de9f6-eae4-11e9-9349-ab25c21c957a.html

Unplucked by @livesinpages in @pidgeonholes http://pidgeonholes.com/2019/09/unplucked/

Unplucked | pidgeonholes: fearless literature

I go to the eyebrow artist, because no one else can give me what I crave: Chris Pine’s sculpted brows. Beautiful, perfect. Thick enough to hold a smear of peanut butter, if I wanted. Sarah told me...

http://pidgeonholes.com/2019/09/unplucked/

And we got @edgarrubengomez in @The_Rumpus https://therumpus.net/2014/07/boys-club/

Boy’s Club

When I say I am not like other gay men, I mean I am not like this man. I am not loose. I don’t just let things happen. But still I want to take him in my arms and kiss him on the cheek. If I am not…

https://therumpus.net/2014/07/boys-club/

And @JulianThePoet has a book of poems out but here’s some prose:

Growing Up Queer And Black With Odd Future's Music https://www.vibe.com/2019/06/growing-up-queer-black-odd-future

Growing Up Queer And Black With Odd Future's Music

One writer explores the sensitive threads that Odd Future plucked as he navigated sexuality, blackness, mental health, and his own sense of belonging.

https://www.vibe.com/2019/06/growing-up-queer-black-odd-future

This poem by another Rona Jaffe winner @athenek in @hyperallergic: https://hyperallergic.com/411589/one-poem-by-elisa-gonzalez/

One Poem by Elisa Gonzalez

Our poetry editor, Wendy Xu, has selected one poem by Elisa Gonzalez for her monthly series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.

https://hyperallergic.com/411589/one-poem-by-elisa-gonzalez/

Some nonfiction by @nmdalea in @pidgeonholes: http://pidgeonholes.com/2020/01/pa-antonio/

Pa’ Antonio | pidgeonholes: fearless literature

CW: abuse When you ask me how I’d write about you, it keeps emerging, like tarot. The sun, the sun, the sun. ~ When our friendship evolves from its nascent stages, we’re riding the COTA from downtown...

http://pidgeonholes.com/2020/01/pa-antonio/

Ankther friend and cohortmate @gabbydozal’s poetry in @GuernicaMag: https://www.guernicamag.com/youve-always-been-a-border-simulator/

you’ve always been a border simulator

you have trouble saying your name and you say it anyway

https://www.guernicamag.com/youve-always-been-a-border-simulator/

And a shorty story by @libbytheflores in a forever favorite journal @PaperDarts: http://paperdartsmagazine.com/literary-magazine/2017/1/16/arlene

Arlene — Paper Darts

Arlene was only a year older and thought everything was out of date. She cut up pillowcases and sewed them into dresses. She said, Hurry up , and I followed. Sixteen and seventeen: We knew the...

http://paperdartsmagazine.com/literary-magazine/2017/1/16/arlene

Poetry by @aguacatemalteco in @TinderboxPoetry:

https://tinderboxpoetry.com/filtered-sestina-for-an-upset-stomach

Dancing Backup: Puerto Ricans in the American Muchedumbre, an essay in @Longreads: https://longreads.com/2019/04/03/dancing-backup-puerto-ricans-in-the-american-muchedumbre/

Dancing Backup: Puerto Ricans in the American Muchedumbre

Carina del Valle Schorske traces a lineage of Puerto Rican backup dancers in American entertainment from Rita Moreno to JLo.

https://longreads.com/2019/04/03/dancing-backup-puerto-ricans-in-the-american-muchedumbre/

Of Spanish and My Grandmother. Fiction by @Ursulaofthebook in @CatapultStory: https://catapult.co/stories/of-spanish-and-my-grandmother

Of Spanish and My Grandmother | Ursula Villarreal-Moura

“Alzheimer’s had been pickpocketing her of a few memories each day until finally I was just a voice she couldn’t place.”

https://catapult.co/stories/of-spanish-and-my-grandmother

In @pidgeonholes we have a story by @rubenwrites:

Nikes http://pidgeonholes.com/2019/03/nikes/

Nikes | pidgeonholes: fearless literature

I told people I was Mexican because it was easier. They’d never heard of El Salvador, and there was no way of explaining what it meant to be from the smallest country in Central America, the small...

http://pidgeonholes.com/2019/03/nikes/

A short story by @aaronhaceves in @QueenMobs: https://queenmobs.com/2020/03/fiction-baby-im-comin/

FICTION: Baby, I'm Comin' - Queen Mob's Tea House

We will be lying on our white leather sofa, watching TV. You’ll be nestled underneath […]

https://queenmobs.com/2020/03/fiction-baby-im-comin/

Next we have an essay by @yodelnyc in @believermag: https://believermag.com/logger/distancing-38-me-against-the-world/

Distancing #38: Me Against the World - Believer Magazine

In 1996, you couldn’t walk two blocks in Morningside Heights without hearing rap or hip-hop. It was the heyday of Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, the summer of “California Love.” Of the three CDs I owned—along...

https://believermag.com/logger/distancing-38-me-against-the-world/

Some poetry by Joel Salcido @FORALLTHEBROWNS in @pankmagazine: https://pankmagazine.com/piece/novena-for-the-culture/

Novena for the Culture - [PANK]

_________ Joel Salcido was born in the San Fernando Valley & raised in West Phoenix. He is the son of Mexican immigrants, a first-generation college graduate, a husband, & father of three sons. Joel...

https://pankmagazine.com/piece/novena-for-the-culture/

This essay in @CatapultStory by @V_Blanco1:

Why We Cross the Border in El Paso https://catapult.co/stories/why-we-cross-the-border-in-el-paso

Why We Cross the Border in El Paso | Victoria Blanco

When you have family in both El Paso and Ciudad Juárez, how do you experience the border?

https://catapult.co/stories/why-we-cross-the-border-in-el-paso

Latest Threads Unrolled: