Badass Bonita: Break the Silence, Become a Revolution, Unearth Your Inner Guerrera [Hardcover]

From the creator of Brown Badass Bonita comes a guide to revolutionary self-love that can help transform not only your life but the lives of everyone in your community.

Almost every Latina has heard the phrasecalladita te ves más bonita—you look most beautiful when you are silent. It's a message rooted in machismo passed from generation to generation, and one that poet and Latine therapist, Kim Guerra, grew up on.

InBadass Bonita, Guerra tells a story of coming into her own power, and guides readers through the process of finding their own. Rejecting what she was taught as a girl, she learned to use her voice—and the more she listened to that innerniña, the more she unearthed her innerguerrera. Vowing never to becalladitaagain, she now teaches Latine women to find their voices.

Tackling tough conversations around machismo, mental health, trauma, and intersectional identities,Badass Bonitais a guide that will help readers:

• Understand underlying sources of wounds and trauma.
• Shift from self‑silencing to revolutionary self‑love.
• Build confidence and bring positive change to relationships, family and community

Written in Kim’s signature poetic, Spanglish style,Badass Bonitais perfect for readers ofMy Grandmother's HandsandEste dolor no es mío—for mothers, daughters, therapists, andmujeres poderosaseverywhere ready find their wings.Kim Guerra, MFT is a writer, advocate and entrepreneur and creator of Brown Badass Bonita, a brand movement that she considers to be a work of self love and love for her community. She received the 'Agent of Change' award from Univision's Premios Juventud and has been recognized byOprah,People, Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, Univision, Televisa, Remezela, R29Somos, and more. SlóJ