On Facing Microaggressions in the Kitchen as a Bitter Feminist

Giselle Flores Alvarado
7 min readMay 27, 2020
Photo by Matt Seymour on Unsplash

Picture this:

A girl and her mother. She has just graduated college and is learning so much from her mother, exploring the culinary aspects of her culture. Having fun with flavors and hearing the stories she has to share. Her mother laughs and offers her a corona with lime and salt and together they weave ingredients into a meal fit for royalty. Then in…

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Giselle Flores Alvarado

I’m a Brown student pursing a BA in literary arts and on my way to an MFA in creative writing. I write and read about love, identity, and womanhood.