watching a squirrel on water skis
Rebel Girl by Kathleen Hanna
Maybe the struggle for language was the moment we were trapped in. Why were we always supposed to answer ignorant questions with thoughtful, articulate answers? Why were we always explaining ourselves? Maybe that was what third-wave girls were about: speaking back to power with sounds that didn't always make sense.
Nona gave birth every other year during La Violencia
The Man Who Could Move Clouds by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Mami says she lost the gift of seeing ghosts when my sister was born, and the gift of hearing voices when I was born, but in the wake of her decreased power, she retained the ability to foretell the future, as well as the eerie yet modest talent of appearing in two places at once.