"This work is a major contribution to research. Because of the author’s academic credentials and enhanced by her lived experience, its value lies in its original insight into the lives of the Latin American women themselves."
— Joan Simalchik, professor emerita University of Toronto, Historical Studies Department

"This is a truly feminist book, which shows that all aspects of women’s organizing is political, from the empanadas they make for the peñas, to providing child-care, education, attending international conferences, agitating for legal intervention in spousal abuse cases, and organizing for the rights of prisoners back home. Additionally, the book centers an often overlooked history in English language feminist scholarship - the role of local and transnational feminist exchanges between Latin American women in their countries of origin and the diaspora."
— Vannina Sztainbok, professor emerita, University of Toronto, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

“The bold reclamation of feminist history and organizing we have been waiting for. Drawing on oral histories and her own multi-sited feminist activism, Magaly San Martin challenges the erasure of the extraordinary work of Latinx and Latin American left feminist organizers, community workers and thinkers. A must read for these monstrous times.”
— Cynthia Wright, associate professor, Gender and Sexuality Studies, York University

R. Magaly San Martin completed her doctoral studies in sociology and equity studies at OISE, University of Toronto, and teaches at Sheridan College in social work, gerontology, and social and community development, developing curricula and teaching courses from an anti-oppression perspective. She is a community worker, educator, and political activist involved in solidarity and liberation movements, as well as feminist and anti-racist movements in Toronto. Her work as a feminist led her to become involved in Latin American women’s groups confronting racism in the women’s movement and sexism in the Latin American diaspora in Canada. She has worked with grassroots organizations such as the Latin American Women’s Collective, MUJER, and the Latin American Coalition against Racism. Her work as a community worker, always intertwined with political advocacy, included actively organizing around immigrant and refugee issues, violence against women, policing, anti-poverty, and Indigenous solidarity.

Chapter 1:: Historical memories and Persistent Erasures
Chapter 2:: Exile and the Bridge Called Solidarity
Chapter 3:: Transnational Organizing and Feminist Consciousness
Chapter 4:: Collective power – The Latin American Feminist Agency in Community Organizing
Chapter 5:: Transnational Feminisms – The Encuentros

Chapter 6:: “Rapists, Drug Pushers and Pimps”: Anti-Racism Organizing
Chapter 7:: Cultivating Latina Leaders
Chapter 8:: Latina Feminisms Unbound – The Latina Feminisms Course
: Conclusion