Daisy Hernández
| Daisy Hernández | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 23, 1975 |
| Occupation | Writer/editor |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | United States |
| Ethnicity | Colombian-Cuban |
| Website | |
| www |
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Daisy Hernández (born May 23, 1975) is a writer and editor in the United States. She coedited the essay collection Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism (Seal Press, 2002), and in 2014 published A Cup of Water Under My Bed, a memoir about growing up queer in a Colombian-Cuban family.[1]
From 2008 to 2010, Hernández edited ColorLines, where she began working as a senior writer in 2004. On January 12, 2011, the NPR program All Things Considered broadcast her commentary on the 2011 Arizona shooting.[2] Conservatives critiqued the piece for its use of the word gringo.[3][4][5]
"Becoming a Black Man",[6] her article about the experiences of black trans men, was nominated in 2009 for a GLAAD Media Award in the category of "Outstanding Magazine Article".[7][8] In 2015, she was named one of the two winners of the Lambda Literary Foundation's "Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award" at the 27th Lambda Literary Awards.[9]
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- ↑ "NPR injects racial vitriol into stories," O'Reilly Factor Flash, Jan. 17, 2011.
- ↑ "Is 'Gringo' Like The N-Word? NPR Under Attack," The Young Turks, Jan. 19, 2011.
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- ↑ "GLAAD announces TV, film noms," Variety.com, Jan. 26, 2009.
- ↑ "Upcoming: Pride 5K; Comics; Brave Face; Lambda Literary awards; HER app". Windy City Times, May 12, 2015.
External links
- Official website
- Daisy Hernández on TwitterLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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