Who Gets to Define Latina Authenticity in Publishing?

Hint: It Ain't Latinas

Sandra Cisneros, a Chicago (yes, that’s a G not an N) writer whose writing is sort of okay but whose “brand” of Frida Faking is a form of Latinx minstrelry, being knighted by the Dominant Society as The One Authentic Latina Storymaker

When I sat down to write my first novel, The Dirty Girls Social Club, I wasn't trying to craft a manifesto. I was just te…