Jeanne Córdova is a proud troublemaker with a storied history. She’s been an activist nun, human rights editor for the L.A. Free Press, and political organizer. Her newest book, When We Were Outlaws: a Memoir of Love & Revolution, tells her personal story in the context of the struggle for gay rights and women’s liberation in the 1970s.
Learn more about Córdova – writer, activist, publisher and Latina – on her website.
I write about things that I care about, that matter to me. The immigrant experience is one of them. Right now I am working on a memoir in which I write about my childhood in Mexico, living in poverty, being raised by my grandmother because my parents were here in the U.S. working. I write about what it was like to come here as an illegal immigrant, and the difficulties of trying to close the gap created by eight years of separation between me and my father. So to answer the question, yes, I do plan to continue writing about immigration and families, among other things. I am always looking for new ideas and topics. One has to grow as a writer, and one way to do that is to take chances and try new things.
In her article at The Atlantic, Taking Literature to the Streets, Katharine Schwab profiles a number of terrific ventures around the world that take literature out of bookstores and libraries and, well, into the streets. GuerrillaReads was included
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RT @NatashaBertrand: "A dozen real estate professionals told ProPublica they saw no clear explanation for multiple inconsistencies in the d… 17 hours ago
RT @mmcassella: Peter Navarro, Trump's trade adviser and chief cheerleader of his China policy, has apparently been quoting staunch China h… 17 hours ago
@flyLAXairport Your Long Beach Flyaway driver stopped twice at the wrong location on his pickup circuit. Thought you'd want to know. 1 day ago
RT @CREWcrew: It is absurd that AG Barr has not recused himself from matters related to the Ukraine whistleblower complaint.
How could he… 2 days ago
It's a literary thriller about one man’s struggle to solve his wife’s murder, set against a backdrop of geopolitical turmoil in the last days of Soviet Lithuania.
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