The Daisy Hernández Story

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 29, 2014

Daisy Hernández, coeditor of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism, former editor of ColorLines, and the author of A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir (Beacon Press, 2014), tells her story of growing up as a first-generation American and a queer feminist Latina.

→EVENT: Daisy Hernández will read from her memoir on Monday, September 29th, at 7:00pm at Bluestockings, 172 Allen Street in Manhattan.

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