Daisy Hernandez

Fierce, fresh and smart -- author and journalist Daisy Hernandez focuses on race, gender, sexuality, and other issues affecting young women of color

• Co-editor of Colonize This! Young Women on Today’s Feminism and former editor of ColorLines, a newsmagazine on race and politics
• Daisy has written for a range of publications – the National Catholic Reporter, Bitch magazine, the New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor – always expressing a feminism that emphasizes race and immigration and broadens the movement beyond its early incarnation
• Most recently her commentary on race and the media was aired on All Things Considered and was picked up by white and black conservatives alike as fuel for attacks on NPR
• Her topics include: Feminism – learned and lived – as Everyday Practice; Race and Sexuality/LGBT Issues; Media, Immigration, and Race

Praise for Colonize This!

 

“I hope Colonize This! makes it onto Women Studies 101 syllabi nationwide

. . . it can help ensure that race is an integral element of feminist dialogue, and keep women from leaving the women’s studies classroom when discussions of race begin.”

- bitch magazine

 

“[The authors’] clear, crisp editing of these raw and honest testimonios make Colonize This! an extremely readable, teachable libro. Well done, mijas.”

- Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/la Frontera: The New Mestiza

 

“A desperately needed and lovingly executed collection, Colonize This! is a critical contribution to the growing body of third wave literature….These young women pick up where foremothers Audre Lorde and Gloria Anzaldúa left off. A must for young women of color searching for themselves within contemporary feminist/womanist discourse, and anyone else who wants to get down with the fierceness of fly, intellectual divas of color.”

- Rebecca Walker, Black, White and Jewish

 

“After reading Colonize This I was filled with a sense of all the possibilities of life, a sense of courage and a feeling that being a woman of color was not a life-sentence . . . but instead the book made me feel that I didn't have to fit into someone else's mold of what it was I should be. Instead I could choose to love and live and learn the way that I felt was right -- what my heart told me.”

- Amazon.com Reader