Summary Of A Cup Of Water Under My Bed By Daisy Hernandez

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For the event writing assignment, I went to see Daisy Hernandez speak. Daisy Hernandez is a Latina journalist and feminist author of A Cup of Water Under My Bed. She previously worked as a journalist at the New York Times and Ms. Magazine and was the coeditor of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism. Hernandez spoke a lot about being a queer Latina women and the issue she dealt with. During her speech, she spoke of how her family had a hard time dealing with her sexuality. She told that there were no conversations about being queer or bisexual as she was growing up. She explained that when she came out to her family, her family did not know how to deal with the revelation. Hernandez told a story of how her aunties struggled …show more content…

During the seventies and eighties in the Chicano movement, Chicana lesbian feminist were attacked the most. Garcia () notes that at that time people made a “direct connection… that viewed feminism and lesbianism as synonyms” (p. 226). Many Chicanos felt like lesbianism was an extreme outcome of the Chicana feminist movement (Garcia). They also felt like the Chicana lesbian feminist were a distraction from the real issues that plagued the Chicano movement like racism (Garcia). Garcia () explains that for the “loyalist”, this Chicana feminism was a search for individual identity instead of a search for their group identity (p.225). The loyalist used the Chicana lesbian feminist as a threat of what could happen to the Chicana women if they followed feminism (Garcia). This distaste for lesbianism is still a part of the Latino culture based off the responses from Hernandez’s …show more content…

She explained how she used Spanish when it was needed. She told how she would use Spanish when telling a story about something her mom or her aunties did because it would not be write to explain it in English. She went on to say that sometimes people would be angry because they could not understand what was happening. She explained how English speaking Americans do not know what to do or how to feel when they are excluded from a conversation because that has not happened to them before. In America, the majority of conversation are in English and when it is not English speaks tend to demand English be spoken. English speaking Americans do not usually see the privileged they have by speaking