Alcantara, Amanda
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Birthname | Amanda Alcantara Burgos | ||||
born on | 29 September 1990 at 00:30 (= 12:30 AM ) | ||||
Place | West New York, New Jersey, 40n47, 74w01 | ||||
Timezone | EDT h4w (is daylight saving time) | ||||
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Biography
Dominican-American writer and activist, whose debut paperback novel Chula was published on 21 March 2019. She is the co-founder of La Galeria, a magazine focused on Dominican women, and the author of the blog Radical Latina. A graduate of Rutgers University, she has written for NY1, El Diario, and Feministing. Alcantara was employed at New York University's McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research, leaving in August 2017.
Events
Source Notes
Sy Scholfield quotes Alcantara on Twitter: "It's my birthday today" (posted 29 Sep 2017) [1], "Amanda, 29, NYC" (posted 20 March 2020) [2], "I'm showing the boo my hometown West New York, NJ this weekend and I'm too excited to be going home (though I cross the bridge like once a month but still). Here's a little thing I asked my mom to write about our family moving to WNY in 1972" [3], "my rising is cancer, so i'm ruled by the moon, but my moon is in cap which is in its detriment. my sun is in libra, which is ruled by venus, but venus is in virgo, also a detriment" [4], "my jupiter & chiron are both in the first house, so first house is both blooming & hurting" [5], "Rising cancer sun in Libra moon in Capricorn midheaven in Aries" [6], "I was born on Saturn day, with Jupiter hour. My Jupiter is in the first house in Leo. My Saturn is in Cap which is also its home planet, conjunct Neptune and Uranus" [7].
Categories
- Traits : Body : Race (Latina and Hispanic)
- Vocation : Education : Researcher
- Vocation : Politics : Activist/ feminist
- Vocation : Writers : Columnist/ journalist
- Vocation : Writers : Fiction
- Vocation : Writers : Magazine/ newsletter (Co-founder of "La Galeria")
- 1990 births
- Birthday 29 September
- Birthplace West New York, NJ (US)
- Sun 5 Libra
- Moon 29 Capricorn
- Asc 19 Cancer
- Traits : Body : Race
- Vocation : Education : Researcher
- Vocation : Politics : Activist/ feminist
- Vocation : Writers : Columnist/ journalist
- Vocation : Writers : Fiction
- Vocation : Writers : Magazine/ newsletter