Somos Escritoras was created in Tempe, Arizona by Dr. Tracey T. Flores. The program emerged while she attended Arizona State University. Her dissertation study brought her to work alongside Latinx girls (grades 6-12) and their mothers and fathers in a 6-week writing workshop.
In envisioning Somos Escritoras, she drew upon her experiences from her adolescent years to imagine the safe space she needed and wishes she had been provided when she was young to find her voice and openly share and learn with her mother.
The workshops invited girls and parents to explore and examine their lives and worlds through drawing, oral storytelling, and writing. In this space, girls worked alongside their parents to pen stories from their lived experiences that address the stereotypes, tensions, and contradictions they face at the intersections of age, gender, race, language, and immigrant status.
After two iterations of these workshops, girls expressed their desire to have a space to grow and learn together.
“Girls expressed their desire to have a space of their own to grow and learn together.”
Dr. Tracey T. Flores
Somos Escritoras is the response to the girl’s dream.
The program is now based in Austin, Texas, at the University of Texas at Austin, where Dr. Flores teaches pre-service teachers. From 2020 to 2022, the Writing Workshop moved online, allowing us to expand our reach to Latinx girls nationwide. In 2023, we went back in person once again.
Somos escritoras provides a writing workshop and creative space for Latinx girls to draw, write, share stories, connect, and celebrate Latinx voices and culture.
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