"She didn’t know there were words
for all the peoples she descended from,
always took care to fill out the scantron sheet
to select the right (white) demographic bubbles,"
In this empowering piece, Angela Acosta takes us through the journey of a woman coming into herself. A full transcript will be available to read on Latinxlitmag.com on Tuesday March 22.
Angela Acosta is an emerging bilingual Mexican-American poet and scholar. She won the 2015 Rhina P. Espaillat Award from West Chester University and her work has appeared in Panochazine, Pluma, MacroMicroCosm, and Eye to the Telescope. She is currently completing her Ph.D. in Iberian Studies at The Ohio State University and resides in Columbus, Ohio.
