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HerCampus Featured The Strange is Beautiful

Posted by strange on December 1, 2016
HerCampus Featured The Strange is Beautiful

Thank you to Shary Miranda for interviewing me for feminist blog HerCampus.com about my activism work with The Strange is Beautiful! You can read the whole interview here.

Posted in: Uncategorized | Tagged: activist, anxiety, chingona fire, corn, cusi coyllur, depression, feminist, her campus, inspiration, interview, panic attacks, people of the corn, peru, peruvian, resistance, self doubt, shannen roberts, shary miranda, the strange is beautiful, uc irvine

Chingona Fire Part 2: Self Love

Posted by strange on October 26, 2016
Chingona Fire Part 2: Self Love

Chingona Fire, a feminist poetry collective consisting of Angela Aguirre and Yesika Salgado, shares a self love poem on body positivity with The Strange is Beautiful and talks about their mind obstacles and what it means to be a “chingona.”

Posted in: Interviews, Interviews of Poets, Self Care | Tagged: angela aguirre, badass women, body positive, body positivity, chingona, chingona fire, cusi coyllur, express yourself, feminism, feminist, feminists, gal palace, inspiration, latina, latinas, nalgona, poetry, poets, self care, self help, self love, the strange is beautiful, yesika salgado

Success Story: Carlee Acevedo Fuller

Posted by strange on September 17, 2014
Success Story: Carlee Acevedo Fuller

“I quit my medication cold turkey. I made a decision that I would use training to beat depression.”

carlee

Carlee is an Olympic weight-lifter, a mother of two, owner of a gym, and an amazing CrossFit Athlete.

Posted in: Self Care | Tagged: antidepressant, anxiety pills, crossfit, henry rollins, inspiration, like a girl, prozac, pump iron, serequil

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