Alisa ValdesDec 30, 20201 minI Got Interviewed About Why Ethnicity is Not A Freaking Genre. Here's What I Said.
Alisa ValdesNov 15, 20205 minI Am Recovering From Long-Haul Covid-19 without Medical Help. Here's How.
Alisa ValdesNov 12, 20203 minReturned to Life with a New PerspectiveSince March 13, I've been sick with and/or recovering from Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel SARS-COV-2 virus. I don't know where...
Alisa ValdesMay 31, 202024 minI Haven't Been Blogging Because I've Had Covid-19 for 80 Days. Here's What It's Been Like.
Alisa ValdesFeb 10, 202011 minDear Hollywood Execs: Stop Saying These Six Things to Latinx Writers - Like, Immediately. Thanks.It's been a long 15 years. Fifteen years ago, I wrote an American novel that did what no other has done. Told in the first person, from s...
Alisa ValdesJan 30, 20208 minThis US Latina Author Got a $6 million Advance. Why Do Latinx Activists Pretend She Doesn't Exist?
Alisa ValdesJan 29, 20204 minSorry, Not Sorry: Why I Won't Apologize for Calling Sandra Cisneros' Agent the C Word
Alisa ValdesJan 27, 202012 minAuntie Sandra's Cabin: Why No One Should Be Surprised Sandra Cisneros Endorsed American Dirt
Alisa ValdesJan 24, 20205 minHere's What Would Happen If Stephen King Were Treated Like a Latina WriterINT. CONFERENCE CENTER BALLROOM - DAY Stephen King, a gangly WHITE MAN of UNKNOWN AGE (for having sold his soul to the devil) lopes onto ...
Alisa ValdesJan 24, 20205 minDear Media: Try Again. American Dirt Isn't Cultural Appropriation. That's Not the Issue. This is.
Alisa ValdesJan 23, 20205 minDear Oprah: Latina Author here. My family was actually kidnapped by cartel. It was hilarious.
Alisa ValdesJan 19, 20205 min4 Reasons People with BPD Must Say No to "Situationships"I did not know there was a name for the nightmare I'd been trapped in for three-plus years. In love with a man who said he loved me, a ma...