"This is who I write about and who I write for. For the girls they were, for the girl I was, for girls everywhere who …"

"The world isn’t kind to black and brown girls, or black and brown women, especially when they come from working-class…"

"Because of anti-blackness in the United States and Latin America, most of us are either hyper-visible or invisible, o…"

"My origins as a writer started with my father loving books and, for me, reading about the history of Puerto Rico from…"

"my dream would be to have an Ordinary Girls TV show that has a very inclusive writers’ room that’s full of queer, Afr…"

"I hadn't been there in a very long time, because everyone who's ever lived there who has been lucky enough to get out…"

"I suffer from major depression, so every day is a struggle, even though every day is a blessing."

"My story wasn’t unique — somewhere there is a teenage girl with a mother who suffers from mental illness and addictio…"

"When I was a kid, I never felt like I fit anywhere. I felt like an outsider in almost every situation, like an alien …"

"Cishet men are always considered intellectuals, even when they write domestic novels or memoirs about boyhood."