Summer of Feminista: Crispy Feminist Flan Cake

Written by Sandra Ramos O’Briant of Blood Mother Blog and The Sandoval Sisters

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.

Summer of Feminista is a project where Latinas are sharing what feminism means to them. Positive. Negative. Academic statements. Personal stories. Learn more or how you can join the Summer of Feminista. This is a project of Viva la Feminista. Link and quote, but do not repost without written permission.