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30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #booksky #bookchallenge #readingwomen

#sandracisneros
December 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Today in Writing History 12/20/1954: Sandra Cisneros, American #author & #poet was born. Her work explores Chicana identity, #immigration, #poverty, & misogyny.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #sandracisneros #writer #chicana #immigration #poverty #feminism #books #identity #fiction #Literature
Image is of Sandra Cisneros, 2009. By ksm36 - http://thegreatsandracisneros.wikispaces.com/file/detail/01310001.jpg, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=34530516
December 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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"First, I wish you noble like Zapata,
because a man is one who guards
those weaker than himself."

Sandra Cisneros, from "Arturito the Amazing Baby Olmec Who Is Mine by Way of Water"
("Loose Woman," Vintage Books, 1994)

#sandracisneros #men #nobility #zapata #heroes #poetry #poets #poetrybooks
November 22, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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“La Guadalupana” by Ángel Rodríguez-Díaz (Puerto Rican-American) - Oil on canvas / 1999 - National Museum of Mexican Art (Chicago, Illinois) #WomenInArt #AngelRodriguezDiaz #ÁngelRodríguezDíaz #AngelRodríguez-Díaz #NationalMuseumofMexicanArt #ArtBsky #art #artText #PuertoRicanArtist #SandraCisneros
Chicana writer Sandra Cisneros appears life-size, seated on the floor before a sofa. Bare legs extend toward us, knees bent, body angled diagonally across the canvas. Her torso twists as she leans into an oversized white satin pillow perched on the couch, its slick folds catching a hard, theatrical light. Her face, rendered with meticulous realism, meets us in a steady, unsmiling gaze as pores, creases, and highlights register the heavy, almost overheated air. Dark hair frames her features and spills toward her shoulders, echoing a deep, uncertain space behind her. In the upper right, the Virgin of Guadalupe materializes like a vision, framed by a scalloped mandorla edged with tiny, jewel-bright spheres that punctuate the dark ground and visually bind living woman to holy icon. Created as Ángel Rodríguez-Díaz’s second portrait of Cisneros, the painting stages an encounter between a celebrated Chicana author and the Virgin who haunts her essay “Guadalupe the Sex Goddess,” where she insists that her “Virgen” must be a woman like her and even declares, “She is God,” rejecting passive, silent models of brown womanhood. Here, the close rhyme between the two faces collapses distance between writer and apparition, casting Guadalupe as a real, Indigenous-featured woman and Cisneros as a contemporary goddess. The artist’s unforgiving photorealism of glistening skin, flexed muscles, and wrinkles at the knees refuses airbrushed ideals, honoring bodies often policed or shamed. Painted in 1999, when “The House on Mango Street” had already become a landmark of Latina coming-of-age literature, this work also marks a moment of mutual recognition between literature and visual art. Cisneros later donated the painting to the National Museum of Mexican Art in memory of her father, anchoring this intimate, contested self-portrait in Chicago’s Mexican and Mexican American cultural home.
November 19, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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I really enjoyed #thehouseonmangostreet by #sandracisneros

I’m unsure why there are some harsh reviews, and I don’t mean in a critiquing sort of way. The reviews seem pretty mixed.

#books
October 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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"Meanwhile
I'll have savored you like an oyster
memorized you
held you under my tongue
learned you by heart
So that when you leave
I'll write poems"

Sandra Cisneros, from "Once Again I Prove the Theory of Relativity"
("Loose Woman," Vintage Books, 1994)

#sandracisneros #poetry #poets #poetrybooks
October 23, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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🌸 Latiné Heritage Month Spotlight 🌸

Sandra Cisneros is a celebrated Mexican American writer, best known for her groundbreaking novel "The House on Mango Street." Her work explores identity, gender, and cultural heritage.🌟

#LatineHeritageMonth #SandraCisneros #TheHouseOnMangoStreet
Graphic spotlighting Sandra Cisneros, Mexican American writer of The House on Mango Street. Mentions her awards (MacArthur Fellowship, National Medal of Arts) and her founding of the Macondo Foundation. Includes her photo with a purple umbrella and the book cover.
October 2, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Never wait until the last minute...except when it is Desert Nights, Rising Stars. Learn more and register at piper.asu.edu/conference#a... #writingcommunity #sandracisneros
September 29, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Three days - no four. That's all that is left before registration closes for Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference, Oct. 9-11, 2025. Join the writing conversation of the year at beautiful ASU Tempe. New drafts, new friends, new visions. #writingcommunity #sandracisneros #tempeAZ
September 27, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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"You're in love with my mind.

But sometimes, sweetheart,
A woman needs a man
who loves her ass."

Sandra Cisneros, from "Full Moon and You're Not Here," in "Loose Woman" (Vintage Books, 1994)

#sandracisneros #poetry #poets #womenpoets #poetrybooks #loosewomen #love
September 21, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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Sandra Cisneros, from "Bay Poem from Berkeley," in "Loose Woman" (Vintage Books, 1995)

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Photo of a passage from Sandra Cisneros' book "Loose Woman." The passage reads, "This weight on the other side of the bed is only books, not you. What I said I loved more than you. True. Though these mornings I wish books loved back."
September 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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🙏 for introducing #SandraCisneros and #MangoStreet to today’s world. So overdue. I met her at a TOESL conference yrs ago (had us crying in shame—ask her—cultural hybridity in grad school. Still
reread her books esp poetry in hard cover which Ive taught repeatedly. Lived and taught in Mex bc of her
August 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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It's POETRY FRIDAY and I am sharing a poem by Sandra Cisneros 'When In Doubt' -a poem that presents as a roadmap for living a good life.
alanjwrightpoetrypizzazz.blogspot.com/2025/06/when...
#poetryfriday #sandracisneros
June 6, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Friends! ART ABOVE EVERYTHING drops next Tuesday. Among the featured artists is the one whose work has impacted me more than any other: author #SandraCisneros. Here is what she said about taking the “path of most resistance” by pursuing a life devoted to art….
June 3, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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#30DayBookChallenge
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#TheHouseOnMangoStreet
#SandraCisneros

Day 5 - Favorite Classic Book:

The House On Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
April 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Mark your calendars. Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference, Oct 9-11, 2025 at ASU Tempe. Iconic Stories. Keynote speaker and featured faculty #SandraCisneros. Learn more including scholarships & opportunities to present at piper.asu.edu/conference#a...
March 13, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Just finished reading.
#WomenAuthors #BannedBooks #SandraCisneros
March 10, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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📖📚 Book Challenge - Day 14 📖📚

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#TheHouseonManhoStreet
#SandraCisneros

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February 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 8/20 #thehouseonmangostreet by #sandracisneros #booksky #20bookchallenge 💙📚
January 29, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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A young girl’s disadvantaged upbringing in a Hispanic Chicago neighborhood. Timely read and an eye-opening perspective for young readers. #2025reads #sandracisneros #houseonmangostreet #modernclassic
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
January 22, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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My weapon has always been language...but it has changed. Instead of shaping the words like knives, now I think they’re flowers, or bridges.

Happy birthday #SandraCisneros.
December 21, 2024 at 12:46 AM
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Happy 70th Birthday #SandraCisneros!
#botd
December 20, 1954
#American #Latinx #writer #queer #lgbtq
#quote
“I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my #writing distinctive. Those are the things that give my writing power.”
#onwriting #booksky
December 20, 2024 at 5:17 AM