Chicas Latinas de Sacramento

02/01/2024

Calling Sacramento Latinas 📣 stay connected, join our Discord community 💕👩🏽‍💻👋🏽

https://linktr.ee/ChicasLatinas916

12/24/2023

❤️ Feliz Nochebuena ❤️ from our family to yours!

Thank you for another amazing year of giving and community 💋🫶🏽

12/17/2023

Join Chicas Latinas de Sacramento’s January Book Club! 🎉

Next month will read “Las Madres” by Esmeralda Santiago! 💕

▫️ Registration closes 12/29
▫️ In-person book pick up!
▫️ Zoom link and reading schedule will be sent out to all registrants

👉🏽 Register to claim your spot!
🔗 Eventbrite Link in Bio 🔗
https://linktr.ee/ChicasLatinas916

📚 They refer to themselves as “las Madres,” a close-knit group of women who, with their daughters, have created a family based on friendship and blood ties.Their story begins in Puerto Rico in 1975 when fifteen-year-old Luz, the tallest girl in her dance academy and the only Black one in a sea of petite, light-skinned, delicate swans, is seriously injured in a car accident. Tragically, her brilliant, multilingual scientist parents are both killed in the crash. Now orphaned, Luz navigates the pressures of adolescence and copes with the aftershock of a brain injury, when two new friends enter her life, Ada and Shirley. Luz’s days are consumed with aches and pains, and her memory of the accident is wiped clean, but she suffers spells that send her mind to times and places she can’t share with others.

In 2017, in the Bronx, Luz’s adult daughter, Marysol, wishes she better understood her. But how can she when her mother barely remembers her own life? To help, Ada and Shirley’s daughter, Graciela, suggests a vacation in Puerto Rico for the extended group, as an opportunity for Luz to unearth long-buried memories and for Marysol to learn more about her mother’s early life. But despite all their careful planning, two hurricanes, back-to-back, disrupt their homecoming, and a secret is revealed that blows their lives wide open. In a voice that sings with warmth, humor, friendship, and pride, celebrated author Esmeralda Santiago unspools a story of women’s sexuality, shame, disability, and love within a community rocked by disaster.
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12/14/2023

TONIGHT❗️We’re discussing “Tesoro” by Yesika Salgado ♥️ and we can’t wait to dive into this incredible collection of poems!

Here’s to a 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣3️⃣ year of great reads, discussions, and community with 🥂👩🏽‍💻

12/11/2023

Thank you everyone for your donations! 🫶🏽 Chicas Latinas volunteers met Sunday morning to assemble 20 Holiday Stockings benefiting cancer patients ♥️🎄🎁

12/05/2023

Check out a couple snippets from our discussion with the author of “Too Soon for Adiós," Annette Chavez Macias! 📖 🙌🏽 TY to everyone who joined us last week.

Representation in storytelling matters! 💯

11/24/2023

We don’t always shop on , but when we do — we’re snagging deals to donate ♥️

Chicas Latinas is collecting donations for our Holiday Stocking Drive, benefiting cancer patients ♥️🎄🎁

Donating is EASY!
If you’d like to help us spread some holiday cheer this season, visit and order from out Target registry: https://bit.ly/CL2023HolidayDrive
🔗or scan QR code 🔗

🗓️ Deadline to donate is Dec. 2❗️

11/24/2023

Celebrating 🔟 Years of at Run To Feed The Hungry 🏃🏽‍♀️🍂 ⏰

Thank you to everyone who joined us! 🙏🏽

11/09/2023

❄️ Join Chicas Latinas de Sacramento's December Book Club! ❄️

Next month will read "Tesoro" by Yesika Salgado! 🍃🍋🍸

▫️ Registration closes 12/10
▫️ Read collection prior to discussion.
▫️ Zoom link will be sent out to all registrants.
▫️ Note: There will be ONLY ONE book club discussion in December!

👉🏽 Register to claim your spot: https://CLBookClubTesoro.eventbrite.com
🔗 Link in Bio 🔗

📚 Tesoro is a story of family, survival, and the formative power of the women in Salgado’s life. It is a telling of the balance between love and perseverance. Tesoro is an unearthing of the sacred connections that make a person whole; the treasure we forever keep with us when we learn from those we love, when we mourn those we’ve lost, and what grows in between.

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10/26/2023

Day Of The Dead 5k & 10k 🌼🏃🏽‍♀️🌼 Registration closes 10/28❣️

https://runsignup.com/Race/CA/FairOaks/DadelosMu***os5K

Tamales 🫔
Live music 🎶
Dancing horse 🐎
Ofrenda and more candle 🕯️

The Day of The Dead 5K & 10k is on Saturday October 28, 2023. It includes the following events: DIA DE LOS MU***OS 5k, VIRTUAL DIA DE LOS MU***OS 5K &10, Kids Calaveritas 1 mile, and Dia De Los Mu***os 10k.