by Rita Sinorita Fierro | Mar 14, 2022 | 100-day challenge
Thursday night I went to and open-mic event in Philly. It was raw, it was profound, it was alive. Just the way I love my art. And it was a lot more than that, too. It was a space of ancestral healing. Two poets did more than recite poems: they channeled on stage the...
by Rita Sinorita Fierro | Mar 11, 2022 | 100-day challenge
My voice started with a scream. turned soft-toned down by expectations of false femininity of pretended fragility My voice has been shifting and changing with my healing sanctuary My voice is growing stronger. Flowing with more vehemence When before it blocked behind...
by Rita Sinorita Fierro | Mar 10, 2022 | 100-day challenge
One of the words adults used most to describe me as a little girl was giudiziosa–judicious. In other words, I’ve been think through every decision as long as I remember. At 4, this meant I was protecting everyone I perceived as excluded. At 10, this meant...
by Rita Sinorita Fierro | Mar 7, 2022 | 100-day challenge
One of the things I’ve learned about traveling, is that getting back to an empty home in the US is hard for me. It’s the single moment in which being single hurts the most…having to get back to and empty home. For years I tried to just not make it so, trying to be...
by Rita Sinorita Fierro | Mar 6, 2022 | 100-day challenge
When I look back on this trip, I notice sooo many gifts. And they are all connected to hosting. My parents are the best hosts in the world. I know this from every single person I know that has visited their home. When a guest comes, they become an absolute priority....
by Rita Sinorita Fierro | Mar 5, 2022 | 100-day challenge
By the nature of having moved a lot, to Italy at 10, to Rome at 19, back to the US at 25, I struggle with continuity of friendships. In an era when social media wasn’t a thing, when you moved, you either wrote letters or you lost people. Letters were too painful to...
