Vanessa is a writer, reader and generally bookish Latina from San Diego. If loving Agatha Christie is wrong, she doesn't want to be right. Vanessa’s penchant for books, travel and tea is rivaled only by her serious addictions to milk, avocado and floral lattes. When not reading books or selling them, she can be found blogging, working on her first novel or cozying up at a library.
Vanessa is a writer, reader and generally bookish Latina from San Diego. If loving Agatha Christie is wrong, she doesn't want to be right. Vanessa’s penchant for books, travel and tea is rivaled only by her serious addictions to milk, avocado and floral lattes. When not reading books or selling them, she can be found blogging, working on her first novel or cozying up at a library.
Vanessa is a writer, reader and generally bookish Latina from San Diego. If loving Agatha Christie is wrong, she doesn't want to be right. Vanessa’s penchant for books, travel and tea is rivaled only by her serious addictions to milk, avocado and floral lattes. When not reading books or selling them, she can be found blogging, working on her first novel or cozying up at a library.
Vanessa is a writer, reader and generally bookish Latina from San Diego. If loving Agatha Christie is wrong, she doesn't want to be right. Vanessa’s penchant for books, travel and tea is rivaled only by her serious addictions to milk, avocado and floral lattes. When not reading books or selling them, she can be found blogging, working on her first novel or cozying up at a library.
Vanessa is a writer, reader and generally bookish Latina from San Diego. If loving Agatha Christie is wrong, she doesn't want to be right. Vanessa’s penchant for books, travel and tea is rivaled only by her serious addictions to milk, avocado and floral lattes. When not reading books or selling them, she can be found blogging, working on her first novel or cozying up at a library.
Vanessa is a writer, reader and generally bookish Latina from San Diego. If loving Agatha Christie is wrong, she doesn't want to be right. Vanessa’s penchant for books, travel and tea is rivaled only by her serious addictions to milk, avocado and floral lattes. When not reading books or selling them, she can be found blogging, working on her first novel or cozying up at a library.
Vanessa is a writer, reader and generally bookish Latina from San Diego. If loving Agatha Christie is wrong, she doesn't want to be right. Vanessa’s penchant for books, travel and tea is rivaled only by her serious addictions to milk, avocado and floral lattes. When not reading books or selling them, she can be found blogging, working on her first novel or cozying up at a library.
Vanessa is a writer, reader and generally bookish Latina from San Diego. If loving Agatha Christie is wrong, she doesn't want to be right. Vanessa’s penchant for books, travel and tea is rivaled only by her serious addictions to milk, avocado and floral lattes. When not reading books or selling them, she can be found blogging, working on her first novel or cozying up at a library.
Vanessa is a writer, reader and generally bookish Latina from San Diego. If loving Agatha Christie is wrong, she doesn't want to be right. Vanessa’s penchant for books, travel and tea is rivaled only by her serious addictions to milk, avocado and floral lattes. When not reading books or selling them, she can be found blogging, working on her first novel or cozying up at a library.
Vanessa is a writer, reader and generally bookish Latina from San Diego. If loving Agatha Christie is wrong, she doesn't want to be right. Vanessa’s penchant for books, travel and tea is rivaled only by her serious addictions to milk, avocado and floral lattes. When not reading books or selling them, she can be found blogging, working on her first novel or cozying up at a library.
Vanessa is a writer, reader and generally bookish Latina from San Diego. If loving Agatha Christie is wrong, she doesn't want to be right. Vanessa’s penchant for books, travel and tea is rivaled only by her serious addictions to milk, avocado and floral lattes. When not reading books or selling them, she can be found blogging, working on her first novel or cozying up at a library.
Vanessa is a writer, reader and generally bookish Latina from San Diego. If loving Agatha Christie is wrong, she doesn't want to be right. Vanessa’s penchant for books, travel and tea is rivaled only by her serious addictions to milk, avocado and floral lattes. When not reading books or selling them, she can be found blogging, working on her first novel or cozying up at a library.
Vanessa is a writer, reader and generally bookish Latina from San Diego. If loving Agatha Christie is wrong, she doesn't want to be right. Vanessa’s penchant for books, travel and tea is rivaled only by her serious addictions to milk, avocado and floral lattes. When not reading books or selling them, she can be found blogging, working on her first novel or cozying up at a library.
Update, October 28, 2022: Our awesome Book Riot readers rallied to donate just over $1250 to Taller Salud. We’ve made our maximum matching donation of $2,500 USD for a total of $3,750 raised for this wonderful cause! Here’s the receipt, and thank you for donating & spreading the word!
From Wednesday, October 12th to Tuesday, October 18th, Book Riot will be matching donations to Taller Sallud for hurricane relief in Puerto Rico, up to $2,500 USD. Read on to see why why we’ve chosen to support this organization and for instructions on how to donate.
Progress or not, thousands of Puerto Ricans remain displaced and in need of immediate aid. That’s why we at Book Riot have chosen to support Taller Salud, a community based feminist organization dedicated to improving women’s access to health care, to reducing violence within the community and to encourage economic growth through education and activism in Puerto Rico.
Here’s a little on their recent efforts:
In 2017, Taller Salud was preparing to hand out food and supplies in the wake of Hurricane Irma when word came that Maria had intensified into a Category 4 hurricane. The organization upped its response and organized community efforts and mutual aid initiatives, even during the COVID-19 pandemic, including the development of a community guide for emergency preparedness.
Taller Salud has publicly denounced the lack of support from the Department of Housing and government as a whole to ensure Puerto Ricans’ right to decent housing, demanding “the immediate cancellation of the abusive contract of LUMA Energy, immediate adjustment in the electricity bill for consumers, a governance model that maintains the electricity service as a public good, and an urgent focus on the restructuring of current energy generation to renewable energy.”
Now in the wake of Fiona, Taller Salud has once again spearheaded a disaster response. They’ve opened two community kitchens to serve 500 meals a day, assessed critical need through a community census tool, and are advocating for inclusion of all municipalities (read: not just the rich tourist-heavy areas) in the disaster designation zone. They’ve also launched a Hurricane Relief Fund to provide essential goods and drinking water to thousands of families. More on that response in the video below.
Taller’s Salud’s reach and mission goes far beyond hurricane relief. They also operate programs focused on reproductive justice; political education and advocacy; safe recovery and housing campaigns; and youth justice. They are working to reduce gender-based violence affecting Afro-descendants and to dismantle toxic masculinity. They are a pillar in their community working daily to address the inequities facing the citizens of Puerto Rico, today and beyond the hurricane aftermath.
Today through Tueday, October 18th, Book Riot will be matching donations to Taller Sallud for hurricane relief in Puerto Rico, up to a max donation of $2,500 USD. To participate, upload a picture of your receipt for your donation in the form below (you can redact personal information). Check back next week, and we will upload our receipt to show how much we’ve raised together! Thank you for joining us in this cause, and click here to complete your donation.
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Puerto Rico needs support after Hurricane Fiona. (Vía: #PRISM – CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT)