Chingona: Owning Your Inner Badass for Healing and Justice Zaragoza-Petty Alma
Chingona: Owning Your Inner Badass for Healing and Justice Zaragoza-Petty Alma Creating the world you want to live in takes guts and grace and everything you've got. You've got to get in touch with…
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Chingona: Owning Your Inner Badass for Healing and Justice Zaragoza-Petty Alma
Creating the world you want to live in takes guts and grace and everything you've got. You've got to get in touch with your inner badass.In Chingona, Mexican American activist, scholar, and podcast host Alma Zaragoza-Petty helps us claim our inner chingona, a Spanish term for ""badass woman."" For all the brown women the world has tried to conquer, badassery can be an asset, especially when we face personal and collective trauma. To heal the world, though, you've also got to find healing yourself.
She may even learn that she belongs to a long line of chingonas who came before her--unruly women who used their persevering energy to survive and thrive.As a first-generation Mexican American, Zaragoza-Petty narrates in riveting terms Working for change while preserving her spirit, a chingona repurposes her pain for the good of the world.