Daisy Hernández Explained

Daisy Hernández
Birth Date:23 May 1975
Occupation:Writer/editor
Language:English
Nationality:American
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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] Hernández is an assistant professor at Northwestern University.

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]

Hernández's latest book, The Kissing Bug, documents the prevalence of Chagas disease in the United States.[10] [11] In February 2022, The Kissing Bug was one of the three books selected for the inaugural version of Science + Literature program created by the National Book Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to highlight "diversity of voices in contemporary science and technology writing".[12] She was a finalist at the 2021 New American Voices Award by the Institute for Immigration Research in US for her book - The Kissing Bug.[13]

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  1. Web site: Wade. Julie Marie. The Rumpus Interview with Daisy Hernández . Rumpus. 26 December 2014. 24 April 2015.
  2. News: Hernandez. Daisy. Across America, Latino Community Sighs With Relief . 24 April 2015. NPR.org.
  3. News: Shepard . Alicia C. . Is the Word "Gringo" Offensive Or Just Distracting? . 24 April 2015 . NPR.org.
  4. http://www.billoreilly.com/show;jsessionid=CE41A450D657854080A9D2913F484F0C?action=viewTVShow&showID=2781#2 "NPR injects racial vitriol into stories," O'Reilly Factor Flash, Jan. 17, 2011.
  5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8i1OpdJMS0 "Is 'Gringo' Like The N-Word? NPR Under Attack," The Young Turks, Jan. 19, 2011.
  6. Web site: Becoming a Black Man . Hernández . Daisy . 7 January 2008 . . 8 June 2015.
  7. Web site: GLAAD Media Awards. GLAAD. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150927215632/http://www.glaad.org/mediaawards/20/nominees. 2015-09-27.
  8. https://www.variety.com/awardcentral_article/VR1117999084.html?nav=news&categoryid=1983&cs=1 "GLAAD announces TV, film noms," Variety.com, Jan. 26, 2009.
  9. http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/lgbt/Upcoming-Pride-5K-Comics-Brave-Face-Lambda-Literary-awards-HER-app/51417.html "Upcoming: Pride 5K; Comics; Brave Face; Lambda Literary awards; HER app"
  10. Book: Hernández, Daisy. The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease. TinHouse. 2021. 978-1-951142-52-0.
  11. News: Iglesias. Gabino. May 27, 2021. A deadly bug bite, a family's heartache. Boston Globe. June 11, 2021.
  12. Web site: 2022-02-09. The National Book Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced the inaugural selected titles for the Science + Literature program. 2022-02-14. National Book Foundation. en-US.
  13. Web site: The New American Voices Award . 2024-11-07 . Institute for Immigration Research . en.

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