Daisy Hernández

Daisy Hernández is the author of The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease (Tin House Books, June 2021). She is also the author of A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir and coeditor of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism. She is an Associate Professor at Northwestern University.
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The World Is Here In My Spine

A practitioner takes refuge in posture and finds relief in focusing on the simple, familiar act of sitting upright in difficult times.

By Daisy Hernández

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