Crispy Feminist Flan Cake

Tis the season for recipes

Crispy Feminist Flan Cake:

½ cup sexist daddy

1 cup manipulative Mexican mommy

¼ cup domineering grandmother

2 cups fiction, fantasy and lies

¼ tsp. poor impulse control (risk-taking can be substituted)

A dash of pachucas beating the crap out of you

Mix in Texan/New Mexican racism

Add 60’s protests

Add drugs and sex to taste

Toss in a sugar daddy

Sprinkle with Santa Fe art and bake in the sun blazing down on the Sangre de Cristos.

It’s ready when the center springs back no matter how many times it’s punched

Let it cool while watched by benevolent lesbians, compassionate crones and loving sons

Keep it in the fortress of its baking dish

Your reward will be a creamy tartsweet dessert edged with hard won brown crisp.

Sandra Ramos O’Briant

Appeared in Viva La Feminsta, 9/04/10

Holiday Recipe from Blood Mother

Cheers!

Crispy Feminist Flan Cake:

½ cup sexist daddy

1 cup manipulative Mexican mommy

¼ cup domineering grandmother

2 cups fiction, fantasy and lies

¼ tsp. poor impulse control (risk-taking can be substituted)

A dash of pachucas beating the crap out of you

Mix in Texan/New Mexican racism

Add 60’s protests

Add drugs and sex to taste

Toss in a sugar daddy

Sprinkle with Santa Fe art and bake in the sun blazing down on the Sangre de Cristos.

It’s ready when the center springs back no matter how many times it’s punched

Let it cool while watched by benevolent lesbians, compassionate crones and loving sons

Keep it in the fortress of its baking dish

Your reward will be a creamy tartsweet dessert edged with hard won brown crisp.

http://www.vivalafeminista.com/2010/09/summer-of-feminista-crispy-feminist.html

At Long Last, Latinos in Lotusland Arrives

Just received my hardcover and paperback copies of this book. Isn't it beautiful? I am so pleased to be a part of this group of illustrious authors, including Reyna Grande, John Rechy, Luis Rodriguez and Helena Maria Viramontes, and so many others.

From Bilingual Press: Spanning 60 years of writing, Latinos in Lotusland portrays vivid accounts of complex and entertaining characters that bring to life the diverse and soulful communities that comprise Southern California, from East L.A. to Malibu, from Hollywood to the San Fernando Valley, from Venice Beach to El Sereno.


Our editor was the eminent Daniel A. Olivas, an award-winning author of four books. He says, "I grew frustrated with the constant barrage of imagery that portrayed Southern Californians as chronically superficial and greedy . . . I wanted fiction readers to encounter the incredible diversity that is the heart of Los Angeles and surrounding communities."


My story is called "Lana Turner Slept Here," and concerns a motorcycle cop and the very pregnant woman he pulls over in Malibu.


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