{"id":1268,"date":"2014-09-25T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T14:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1268"},"modified":"2014-10-02T20:56:33","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T01:56:33","slug":"daisy-hernandezs-memoir-coming-of-age-as-a-queer-cuban-colombian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1268","title":{"rendered":"Daisy Hernandez\u2019s memoir, coming of age as a queer Cuban-Colombian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Ilyse Kramer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Daisy Hern\u00e1ndez has written eloquently and expansively about race, class, gender, and sexuality as a former editor of <i>ColorLines Magazine, <\/i>a columnist of <i>Ms. Magazine,<\/i> and editor of several anthologies. Now she has turned the focus of these topics upon herself in her new memoir, <i>A Cup of Water Under My Bed.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cup-Water-Under-My-Bed\/dp\/0807014486\/ref=la_B004P4GVRS_1_1%3Fs=books%26ie=UTF8%26qid=1411264912%26sr=1-1\"><i>A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir<\/i><\/a> recounts Hernandez\u2019s experiences growing up in New Jersey absorbing life lessons from the women in her Cuban-Colombian family, while also balancing the challenges that come the only family member to speak and write in English. Hernandez\u2019s coming of age narrative chronicles the personal\u2014her discovery of her bisexuality, and the professional\u2014her experiences as a reporter for The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/09\/17\/daisy-hernandez-a-cup-of-water-under-my-bed_n_5832784.html%20\">The Huffington Post interviewed Daisy Hernandez on September 17<\/a> and this interview unpacks the thought process and experiences informing her memoir. As is discussed in the interview, Hernandez has a history of navigating multiple identities, and joked her new tagline is, \u201cbicultural, bilingual, bisexual.\u201d This lens has also informed her work as a journalist. She was nominated for a 2009 GLAAD Media for her article <a href=\"http:\/\/colorlines.com\/archives\/2008\/01\/becoming_a_black_man.html\">\u201cBecoming a Black Man,\u201d<\/a> which gives voice to the nuanced ways that trans people of color experience race after they have transitioned.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ilyse Kramer Daisy Hern\u00e1ndez has written eloquently and expansively about race, class, gender, and sexuality as a former editor of ColorLines Magazine, a columnist of Ms. Magazine, and editor of several anthologies. Now she has turned the focus of these topics upon herself in her new memoir, A Cup of Water Under My Bed. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-media-of-note"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}