Workbook
For Puerto Rican Women
A Workbook on Colonialism, Citizenship Without Belonging, and What You Carry From Both Sides of the Water
You carry the island. The question is what you do with what you carry.
For the Puerto Rican woman straddling citizenship, geography, and history — born on the island or to parents from it, carrying the colonial wound, the migration story, and the unfinished claim to belonging.
The Name It First Experience
You carry an island. Maybe literally—you were born there. Maybe in memory, in language your parents spoke, in the stories of home they told you. Maybe in your grandmother's recipes, the way she moved through space, her prayers. And you carry a wound: the history of colonialism, the question of what sovereignty would look like, citizenship that came without choice, a place you can visit but never fully claim again. This workbook helps you examine what you carry from Puerto Rico, what you carry from the diaspora, what's inherited grief and what's yours to transform.
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Sample questions
- What do you carry from Puerto Rico — the actual island or the inherited one — that has no category in the life you are living now?
- When someone asks where you are from, what do you actually want to say — and what do you say instead?
- What would The Boricua Identity Map name as yours — not what the history says, not what the politics decided, but what you claim?
Research basis
Grounded in postcolonial theory (Said, Fanon, Spivak on colonialism and identity), diaspora studies (Hall on diaspora, Anzaldúa on borderlands), Puerto Rican cultural studies and Boricua identity literature, intergenerational transmission of colonial trauma, intersectionality theory (race, gender, nationality, colonial status), migration and acculturation theory, ethnic and cultural identity development, language and identity in diaspora, spiritual syncretism and religious identity, narrative therapy, grief and loss therapy, and social justice-informed therapy.
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