{"product_id":"porque-estamos-aqui-puerto-rican-feminisms-against-empire-paperback","title":"Porque Estamos Aquí: Puerto Rican Feminisms Against Empire - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJessica Nydia Pabón-Colón\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA future classic collection of Puerto Rican feminist writing that spans time, terrain, and phases, invokes voices across generations and fields, and bridges island and diaspora.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her years of scholarship and activism with fellow Puerto Rican feminists, editor Jessica N. Pabón-Colón reached for a feminism to ground her work and validate the women who paved her way--but in her search for a specific tradition of Puerto Rican feminism, what she found were gaps, disappearances, and unanswered questions. Despite the presence of Puerto Ricans in US pop culture and the long history of Boricua resistance to US subjugation, both on the archipelago and in the diaspora, she did not find a feminist lens to link the myriad identities and geographies of Ricanness or to focus critique on Puerto Rico's status as an American neo-colony.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCounteracting such erasure, \u003ci\u003ePorque Estamos Aquí \u003c\/i\u003emaps Boricua feminisms of the past, the present, and the future, defining what it means to be a \"bad subject\" of US empire. Engaging in radical collectivity, Pabón-Colón joins forces with Puerto Rican scholars, memoirists, artists, and activists--including feminist legends like Aurora Levins Morales and political trailblazers like Rosa Clemente--to ground this anthology in a tradition of resistance to empire at home. Through essays, roundtables, historiographies, poems, and other cross-genre writing, \u003ci\u003ePorque Estamos Aquí \u003c\/i\u003easserts that Puerto Rican feminists are undeniably, irreducibly here and will guide generations of our shared movement for years to come.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJessica Nydia Pabón-Colón\u003c\/strong\u003e is a diasporic Puerto Rican feminist scholar of identity, community, and resistance. Her essays appear in journals including \u003ci\u003eWomen \u0026amp; Performance: a Journal of Feminist Theory\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSigns: Journal of Women in Culture and Society\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFrontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies\u003c\/i\u003e. Her book \u003ci\u003eGraffiti Grrlz: Performing Feminism in the Hip Hop Diaspora\u003c\/i\u003e (New York University Press, 2018) is the first academic study on women's participation within hip-hop graffiti art subculture. She spends her summers as a butterfly doula helping monarchs on their migration journey and can otherwise be found baking breads, crafting, playing with her human and nonhuman children, or in a forest admiring the moss.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 11, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51984079552813,"sku":"9781558613607","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/EGIr6L7NoW9781558613607.webp?v=1776081801","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/porque-estamos-aqui-puerto-rican-feminisms-against-empire-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}