Badass Bonita: Break the Silence, Become a Revolution, Unearth Your Inner Guerrera - Hardcover

by Kim Guerra (Author)

From the creator of Brown Badass Bonita comes a guide to revolutionary self-love that can help transform not only your life but the lives of everyone in your community.

Almost every Latina has heard the phrase calladita te ves más bonita--you look most beautiful when you are silent. It's a message rooted in machismo passed from generation to generation, and one that poet and Latine therapist, Kim Guerra, grew up on.

In Badass Bonita, Guerra tells a story of coming into her own power, and guides readers through the process of finding their own. Rejecting what she was taught as a girl, she learned to use her voice--and the more she listened to that inner niña, the more she unearthed her inner guerrera. Vowing never to be calladita again, she now teaches Latine women to find their voices.

Tackling tough conversations around machismo, mental health, trauma, and intersectional identities, Badass Bonita is a guide that will help readers:

• Understand underlying sources of wounds and trauma.
• Shift from self-silencing to revolutionary self-love.
• Build confidence and bring positive change to relationships, family and community

Written in Kim's signature poetic, Spanglish style, Badass Bonita is perfect for readers of My Grandmother's Hands and Este dolor no es mío--for mothers, daughters, therapists, and mujeres poderosas everywhere ready find their wings.

Author Biography

Kim Guerra, MFT is a writer, advocate and entrepreneur and creator of Brown Badass Bonita, a brand movement that she considers to be a work of self love and love for her community. She received the 'Agent of Change' award from Univision's Premios Juventud and has been recognized by Oprah, People, Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, Univision, Televisa, Remezela, R29Somos, and more. She continues to use her voice and platform to advocate for the immigrant LGBTQ+, BIPOC, survivors, mujeres, and oppressed communities. She has a Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy from Antioch University, Seattle.