A bridge that interrupts a legacy of pain with the honest sharing of stories.
Sana, Sana is a witness to the multiple wounds etched into the landscape of Latinx experience and a testimonial to community efforts to heal them. A multi-genre anthology rooted in the deep desire to not only acknowledge and name the various forms of pain and trauma Latinx people experience regularly, but to do so in the service of imagining new futures and ways of being that prioritize healing and justice not just for Latinx people, but for Queer BIPOC communities and, ultimately, for all people.
The book’s vision and understanding of Latinidad is broad and expansive. It centers Black, Indigenous, Queer, Trans, and Feminist Latinidades. By advancing an unapologetically radical antiracist, anticapitalist, feminist, and queer politic Sana, Sana holds creative and defiant space for identifying economic, social, political, emotional, and spiritual strategies to forge individual and collective healing and justice.
Introduction
PART I: PAIN: SPEAKING THAT WHICH WANTS TO REMAIN UNSPOKEN
Cynthia Estremera Gauthier
Reporting Live
Self Care
Aja Y. Martínez
Counter Story As Catharsis: Alejandra’s Deepest Wound
Sinai Cota
Rebirth
Daisy Munoz
Reflections On Childhood Verbal Trauma
Mental Illness In Spanish
Daniel Shank Cruz
What Words Can I Use For This?
*Susana Victoria Parras
The Collective Body
*Jennifer Lankford
You’re Not A Regular Mexican
Lysz Flo
How to tell my Novio, Mama, Abuela
Frankie A. Soto
I wasn’t born where the earthquakes are hitting
Christian Bracho
Grieving in Spanglish: A Glossary of Loss
PART II: HEALING: MAKING OURSELVES WHOLE
Kate Foster
La Luz
Gabi Navas
andrea and i do shots over facetime
Raquel Reichard
How Latin Trap Helped Me Heal From The Biggest Heartbreak Of My Life
Edyka Chilomé
Her·me·neu·tics
Maribel Martinez
It Changes You
Esperanza Luz
Paciencia: How sewing a shirt helped me heal
Gisselle Yepes
for when our blood runs motherless
Mars C. Rivas
Today I
Sofia Quintero
Pyrite
PART III: JUSTICE: DEFIANT WORLDMAKING
Edyka Chilomé
A Recommendation
Amaris Castillo
Altagracia
Hector Rivera
Time Travel
Ana Miramontes
I Come From Dreams
Biany Pérez
“Do you see me?”: Musings on the pain of anti-Blackness or Black Denial
/Rejection in Latinx Spaces
Gabi Navas
ode to the upside-down flag stamp on every letter i mail
Lysz Flo
Ode to Amara La Negra
Marcela Rodriguez-Campo
Mariposa
Dafne Luna
Fierce Gorditx Coming Home: Fat Identity Formation Rooted in Queerness
Nic Rodriguez
Bregando
Afterword