Natalia Santana is a compliance professional by day, and an activist, student and parent...also by day. Interested in the intersection of activism and education, her joy in life is taking complicated concepts and distilling them into easy to understand Twitter rants. Favorite genres: science fiction, fantasy, and non-fiction books.
Blog, Social Justice

This is America

I woke up on January 6, 2021 very excited to hear where the Georgia run-off elections were going and ended the day totally distraught about the domestic terrorism that occurred at the Capitol. I could not let today go by without talking about what happened yesterday on this blog. White supremacists, Neo-Nazi’s, and the other …

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Blog, Bookish Life

(Book Excerpt) The Book of Old Ladies: Celebrating Women of a Certain Age in Fiction

Today we have a guest post by Dr. Ruth Saxton. Dr. Saxton is a Professor Emerita of English at Mills College in Oakland, CA. Over the course of her forty-two-year career, she has studied, taught, and published works on fiction by women, focusing on how narratives limit or expand what we imagine to be possible. …

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