Cspan. Org thepresident s to learn about each president and historian featured in order your copy today wherever books and ebooks are sold. Jaquira diaz is with us courtesy of david and noel ray and roseline rocks berg. She was born in puerto rico. Her work has been published in rolling stone, the guardian, and the New York Times style magazine. And included in the best american essays 2016. She is the recipient of two pushcart prizes and Elizabeth George Foundation Grant and fellowships from the kenyon review and the Wisconsin Institute for creative writing. She lives in miami beach with her partner writer lars thorne. Please give a warm savanna welcome to jaquira diaz. [applause] thank you so much. Im so happy to be here, wonderful to see all you booklovers here, thank you savanna for your southern hospitality. I want to thank the savanna book festival and everyone who made this event hospital including sponsors, booksellers. Lets give it up for the indy booksellers in the room. I love you all. Thank you for championing writers and supporting ordinary girls, because of you, i am here so thank you. I want to open with just a little piece that opens the book ordinary girls. It functions kind of like a prologue but not really, it is just a very short section. Girlhood. We were the girls who strolled onto the blacktop on long summer days dribbling past the boys on the courts, we were the girls on the merrygoround laughing and laughing and letting the world end while holding on for our lives, the girls on the swings during our heads back, the wind in our hair, we were the loudmouths, the troublemakers, the practical jokers, we were the party girls hitting the clubs and booty charts and jordans, smoking on the beach, we were the wild girls who loved music and dancing, girls who were black and brown and poor and queer, girls who loved each other. I have been those girls on a greyhound bus, homeless and on the run, girls sleeping on lifeguard stands by a restaurant on a bus stop bench, he had them girl throwing down with boys and girls in their own worst older sisters and the cops, suspended every year for fighting on the first day of school kicked out of music class for throwing a chair at the math teachers son. Kicked out of prealgebra for stealing the teachers gradebook, a girl who got slammed onto a police car by two cops in front of the whole school after a brawl with six of the girls and i have been other girls, girls standing before a judge, girl on a dock the morning after a hurricane looking out at the bays like the end of the world, girl on a rooftop, girl on a ledge, girl plummeting through the air and years later, a woman writing letters to a prisoner on death row. This is the opening of my book and i will talk a little bit about the inspiration and why i rose it. This book took about 12 years to write and it is without a doubt my lifes work. Ordinary girls is about my girlhood and it wasnt in puerto rico in miami beach, surviving depression and violence, it is about love, friendship and family, how action shape us, about losing the people we love, how we are not defined by the worst thing we have ever done and it is about my relationship with my mother. Growing up i was a juvenile offender who spent most of her time on the streets. 11 i attempted suicide for the first time and a few months after that i ran away from home for the first time and then i started getting arrested. I dropped out of high school, kept running away, kept getting arrested, kept fighting in the streets, kept trying to die. I was in the middle of a sexual awakening and would later come out as gay but i couldnt talk about that, not to anyone, not a nearly 90s, not in my neighborhood which was marked by homophobia and transfer be a and targeted attacks on gay people and certainly not to my mother. I spent much of my childhood and adolescence pretending to be someone else especially when it seemed the whole world was trying to erase us. I spent a lot of that time hiding in books looking for myself in stories and after i became a writer i decided to write about people like me. Girls and women who were black and brown and poor and queer and on mother, women like my mother, a white puerto rican women who didnt know how to raise or protect her black children, who would spend her entire life struggling with Mental Illness and addiction. My mother was and is a complicated woman. She was loving and abusive. She held me one minute, then kicked my ass, then held me again. She was and is flawed and vulnerable and confident and strong and lost. My mother was and is deeply deeply homophobic. When i first started writing ordinary girls my mother was a ghost, she really showed up in its pages so i wrote around her avoiding the truth. The truth was painful, the truth was that my mother broke me and she was the single most difficult subject to write about so i wrote about other mothers. A black puerto rican woman who carried me my whole life, carries new still who taught me to pray and cook, to keep house, everything i know about forgiveness. I wrote about a miami beach woman who tortured and murdered her 3yearold son and dumped his body in a neighborhood close to where i grew up and spent most of her life on death row and i wrote about my mothers mother, my grandmother mercy, a white woman who hated the fact that my mother fell in love with and married a black man, that she had his children, better grandchildren were black, she would later die by suicide. I wrote about the mythical woman, legend who took her children from their beds at night, carried them to a nearby river, held them underwater until they drowned and then drowned herself and now her ghost hans bodies of water looking for her ghost children. I wrote about all these other mothers, every mother, any mother except my own until a friend read the manuscript asked, after reading about five chapters, where is your mother, how come you never mentioned her and i had to sit down with the book, take a hard, honest look at the pages, examine my life and all the reasons i had been avoiding writing about my mother. The truth is my mother broke me in the truth is i was afraid to look, to admit, to see how much broken, to see how hard it had been to find my way back to myself, how easily i could be broken again but i finally decided to ask the question and more than that come in to ask the question for myself, to answer it, where is my mother, to write about her, to examine our relationship in a way that was honest, that acknowledged all the ways she was real, the writing from beginning to end took 12 years. I had to step away from the book several times and there were many different versions, to see that the writing of this book drained me, wrecked me, would be an understatement. I gained weight, i lost weight, my hair started falling out. I had the worst insomnia i had in my life. During those 12 years i lost relationships, friendships, my grandmother died by suicide, i often needed time away from the book to take care of myself and make sense of what i was doing, to interrogate different parts of the book, to examine my life as i was living it. Writing nonfiction for me has never been cathartic, quite the opposite. Writing this book is the hardest thing i have ever done. What kept me going . I wanted to write about people who rarely had a home in the literary landscape. I wanted to write about growing up poor in miami and about all the ways queer black puerto rican girls are invisible and hypervisible and about my Community Without losing sight of what mattered most, the people i was writing about were real, that they existed, they lived and loved even if the rest of the world didnt see them. When i started writing this book i thought not just about how to write my story but how my story is and was collected to a larger world is what my place in that world might be. Im here because i found that place thanks to a group of friends who saved me. I was struggling as a girl, as a woman and later as a writer struggling with how to write about Sexual Violence in a way that was honest and artful and not just about my experience but spoke to something larger about girls, how complicated family lives, fights and loves and i wanted to write it without pity or glory or anger. But also more so than any of my girls i am someone who has had access to education, to fellowships and writing conferences. It has taken a lot of hard work with it doesnt erase the fact that ive had access to all of this and girls in my community havent. The world isnt kind to black and brown girls. In the world isnt kind to black and brown women. Especially when they come from workingclass communities or from poverty. These ordinary girls taught me that it is possible to make our own way. Helped me believe in love and friendship and hope, after they had girls of their own, there girls taught me the most important lessons i needed to learn in order to write this book. They helped me to see the girl i have been. They helped me remember there are girls out there just like i was, that my story wasnt unique, all girls, no matter the circumstance are vulnerable. This is something we share, something that transcends borders and ethnicity and race and class, somewhere is a teenage girls mother suffers from Mental Illness and addiction just trying to get through the day, trying to come to terms with her sexuality. I like to imagine may be seeing herself in this book will make her life a little bit easier. Some of the other things i talk about in the book are also things that were very important to me. My father loved books, he was a poet who stopped writing poetry and one of my earliest memories was of my father, he took me to the funeral of a puerto rican protest poet and when i saw everybody gathered in celebrating his life, people who had read his books i thought poets were important and they could change the world and i thought i want that. I also wanted this book to Say Something about access and who gets access to this world, to publishing, who gets to be up here and talk about books. It was important to me because coming from where i came from i always felt i didnt have enough. It was important to me to talk about that and about puerto rican history, puerto rico at history of colonialism and its relationship to the United States and i started thinking about how to include our history in a memoir, something that wasnt a history book and how my story is connected to that story. Being puerto rican, most of us who come from puerto rico feel a connection to the island even after we have left it even if we have never been there which is the truth, there is a lot of Puerto Ricans know of phrase which comes from a poem by i forgot his name but comes from a poem and it means i would be puerto rican even if i was born on the moon. I wanted to reach people who would never read about puerto rico or pick up a history book or didnt have access to that history for whatever reason and make some of that history accessible to the general reader, to a reader who picks up a memoir about girlhood so i tried to talk about the parts of puerto rican history and colonialism but shaped me as a woman and human being and as a writer. And a lot of this influence the kind of writer i became and i was thinking about who i was writing for. In so many ways i felt like this book, even though i intended it to be as open and honest and intended it to be vulnerable i wanted to be in conversation with a specific group of people, girls are like i was, certainly Puerto Ricans, black americans, girls a drop in poverty, for them to understand i wasnt just writing about them. I was writing for them. Something i mentioned in the book is i was a kid who loved to read. I didnt have money for books. I went to the library and asked librarians to give me books and i Read Everything they put in my hands and everything they put in my hands were books that were written about white people and for white people and i thought that to be a writer you needed to be white. And so i wanted them to understand and to see that that wasnt real, but we exist, that this is possible. There were other parts of this book that kind of shape to me but at the time i thought about how they would make sense to the story, one of them was the baby lollipop murder that i talk about which happened in 1990. There was a toddler found in her neighborhood in miami beach and at the time they didnt really know where this topic came from, just that they found his body and he had been tortured and i saw this story on the news. It took over the 24 hour news cycle and at the time, i was 11, i was a kid but because it was on the news and on every newspaper and everybody in my neighborhood was talking about it we all kind of obsessed about this and i are ready imagined myself a writer and so i took notes and thought about this a lot and for weeks i thought about this until they found the babys mother and the story came out in the news they found his mother and her partner and that they had dumped his body and fled. Part of the narrative at the time, part of it was very important to the narrative at the time, the news made it sound like this woman and her partner, these two lesbians killed this baby and ran away and very much made it sound like being a lesbian was part of the crime. That people who talked about this in my neighborhood including teachers and School Security and librarians always talked about this with either implicit or explicit homophobia. So i kept thinking about the story and thinking about it and 20 years later i wrote an essay of being a little girl when the story broke and the essay was published in a magazine called the son and a woman who had been at the time working as an antiDeath Penalty activists visited prisoners on death row, read it and emailed me and i know this woman i wrote about, i have been visiting her in prison, she has been on death row since 1992 and i wrote back to her, asked if we could start a correspondence and she did and eventually i told her i had written about her or had written the story about her after discovering her on the news and she wrote back, she wrote me that is in her first letter she was kind of livid, she was upset that i had written about her and she said you didnt know me, you didnt know my son. What gives you the right to write about me . I wrote back and told her my story, told her who i was and why i had written about it and i wrote about discovering her story on the news and following along with it and i was a child at the time and i told her i would like to hear her story, not what the newspapers said, not what people said but the truth. I include this in the book because it is important for readers to see a writer when writing a memoir, to see the writer implicate themselves and talk about how they are complicit in certain violences. When i asked her to tell me her story she wrote back and said this is not a story, this is my life. She put me in my place and i deserved it. At that moment i started thinking about why i was writing and why i was writing it this way. I went back to the beginning of the book and i started interrogating myself and interrogating why i was telling the story and if i had a right to tell the story considering that i wasnt really a resident anymore and had access to all these things, i was in graduate school and the people i was writing about didnt have access to any of that but she got me to think about seeing all the women im writing about and thinking about the fact that im writing about real people. Theres another woman i mentioned in the book who died by suicide and i thought about her loss. I included her in the book because i thought about her in the same way. At the time i was suffering from major depression and ptsd and anxiety, and thinking about taking my life and thinking of this woman as a story, as a legend and i also wanted to include in the book how i caught myself thinking this way and to remind the readers that these arent just stories, these are real people. And that she was a real woman. In 2017, Ana Maria Cardona got a new trial and i was corresponding with her for several years. I wasnt writing her all the time but i would send an occasional letter and she would write back or she would write 2 or 3 letters and i would write back, and one of the things she asked for after she let me have it because i wrote about her, she did want me to write about her except became very clear she wanted to control the narrative and she wanted me to go to her retrial and i did. She was being tried for murder again but this time the Death Penalty was the table and as i sat in the trial after having this correspondence with her and feeling like there was enough evidence to prove that someone else was partially responsible another woman had confessed i realized that she was lying. She caught caught lying on the stand by prosecutors three times. I included a little bit of that too because i really wanted the reader to think about this idea of her that i had constructed and my head and how that fell apart because i wasnt really thinking of her as a woman. I had been thinking of this as a story i was following as a journalist. There are these other moments in the book that i thought were important, to call myself out. I talk about writing about puerto rico and one of the things i have done over the years his visit puerto rico and go back almost every summer, spend time with family. I still have most of my family there and to drive around and so i drove to taiwan one afternoon and if any of you have been to puerto rico, there is this building called the Puerto Rico Tourism Company which used to be a prison. It used to be a prison where Puerto Ricans were tortured and murdered and somehow the building was purchased and now it is the Puerto Rico Tourism Company and it is a place where you can get trolley maps and there is a gallery and a grand piano and people take selfys and you know. The building still has two jail cells in their original condition where people stop and take photos and when i went back to visit this building, after having written most of this book, almost all of it, i was thinking i knew the history of this place and i went intending to see it for what it had been, a prison where people were tortured and lost their lives and yet when i got there and saw families and tourists, a woman asked me to take a photo of her with her two children, i took her phone and took a picture of them and then i asked her to do the same, take a picture of me in front of this jail cell and it is a moment that even at the time i knew what i was doing was a moment that now fills me with shame because it was like i was trying to forget and i was complicit in this erasure. I thought i needed to include it in the book, to call myself out and talk openly about the desire to eat race history and the race violence and who is complicit. Something that also is in the book, that miami is kind of like another character i dont think it is true but miami is upsetting for part of the book and its atmosphere and its Historical Marker and cultural marker, i tried to capture was was for me the real miami that i saw over and drove her on tv and movies and music videos. I tried to write about this miami that was invisible in everything i consumed either on tv or amid videos and books which was this workingclass miami beach that was four blocks from ocean drive where people lived in poverty and people had rats in their apartments and people sometimes didnt have electricity because the power got cut off and this was very real when i was growing up in miami, where we would have this building that was kind of falling apart, that was crumbling and a block away we had a building that had been bought and renovated and was beautiful and people with a lot of money lived there who drove mercedes and bmws and we all lived in the same neighborhood and it felt like this strange liminal state to live in a place that didnt want you there, with people who didnt want to see you and to be slowly pushed out and i wanted to kind of have a miami beach of this time be present in the book because i wanted it to Say Something how a place can be beautiful and ugly, glamorous and brutal at the same time. To Say Something about the duality of the migrant experience, how people are more than you see on the surface, most people that lived in my community were latinos and immigrants and migrants and most of them had educations and professions back home and then came to miami and drove taxis and had to go back to school and brought their families and lived in poverty. I remember my father had friends who were taxi drivers who had been doctors and engineers but had to come and start from scratch because they had to learn the language and were struggling in other ways too. I wanted that present in the book because that was the reality we lived in. Something else that is in the book before i talk about how i became a writer is Mental Illness. My mother suffered continues to suffer from Mental Illness and it was very clear when we were kids that something was wrong but my mother went undiagnosed until we moved to miami beach from puerto rico and years later it became clear to me that she had been undiagnosed for years and also that because we were poor we didnt have adequate medical care and she didnt have adequate healthcare and it was clear that it would have been different if we had money, that she might have been diagnosed if we had resources, her life might have been different. I also talk a little bit about my maternal grandmothers Mental Illness and hers he did die by suicide in 2011 which is something that is present in the book but it was also present during my whole life, because my grandmother talked about this so often, she was also suffering from Mental Illness and depression and took a lot of medication and when i was a kid i was suffering depression, ptsd, anxiety, i was undiagnosed for years but i thought this seemed an easy way out. I dont know how else to describe it. It seems much easier than living. How it i became a writer is something i touch on in the book. When i was 16 i dropped out of high school, got my jd and took classes in Community College and for a brief period i am listed in the military, i was in the navy, this was in the middle of dont ask dont tell so the military became a place filled me with hope, ironically, because it was the first time people expected me to succeed. I felt i could start fresh in a place where no one knew me, and reinvent myself, and i could work hard and have a future. The first time i thought i could have a future, that real life was possible and the navy became unbearable because i was bullied for being gay. I had a relationship for a woman there and someone found out and it spread. The rumors spread and eventually dont ask dont tell became my nickname, i left the military and it is not something i talk about extensively in the book, it is just one chapter but i mention it because it became sort of like a bridge, a way for me to think about a life worth living and after leaving the military i went to college into classes again, i did very well, went to grad school and decided i would be a writer. Even if i had to work other jobs that i would be a writer, even if no one published my books i would write. And after graduate school, i got this scholarship to the Wisconsin Institute for creative writing because i applied. I applied for fellowships and scholarships every single opportunity. If i could afford it i would apply for it so i played for this fellowship and suddenly one day i got a phone call and they told me that i got it. It was called, there was a lot of cheese but it was great. I have a dairy allergy. [laughter] it was also difficult. But i started teaching and slowly things started falling into place. There was a lot of hard work, and years when i just worked odd jobs and kept trying to write this book and would take a break and stepped away from it and went back to it when i could and then abandoned it and started trying to write another novel because it didnt feel possible to admit all these things to people. And then i decided to actually go through with it and write this book because i thought it was important that i tell the truth, writing it in fiction even if i didnt change a word felt like lying. I would like to possibly open the room to some questions and conversation, maybe something lighter. But before i do that i also want to read you a very short, short section because this, i think is at the core of the book. The book is also about girlhood and navigating a certain kind of girlhood in puerto rico and miami beach and i was talking not just about myself navigating but these other girls who were my lifeline and so i am going to read you one paragraph which is at the core of what this book is. We wore short shorts and crop tops, baggy jeans and basketball jerseys, big hoop hearings and no matter what, everybody had opinions about how we dressed, call us tom boys and hood rats or fast girls, our shorts were too short, our genes too type, do baggy, our voices too loud. Everybody wanted to control what we wore, what we did, who we did it with. We were not the girls they wanted us to be, we were not allowed to talk like this, to went like this, we are not supposed to feel the kind of desire you feel at 13, at 14, what kind of girl, they loved to say, what kind of girl even as they took what we gave, took what we tried to hold on to. Our voices, our bodies. We were trying to live but the world was doing its best to kill us. Thank you. [applause] thank you, i appreciate it and thank you for powering through that. In real life im very funny. I promise. If you would like to ask a question, so everyone can hear you there is a mic in the middle, for you to step up to the mic if you can. Yes . Go ahead. Thank you. What an important story to share with all of us. I have a light or have a question, your choice. Lights question would be was other writers or others have inspired you. So many writers and others have inspired me. I remember reading as marilla santiago as a teenager. I think i was 19 and i thought this is the first time i read a book in english about Puerto Ricans who were like me, just normal People Living their everyday lives and i thought we exist. Before then most of the books librarians put in my hands were written by white people for white people, mostly written by white men who werent around anymore but also some who were. I read a lot of stephen king. I also read Toni Morrison and i thought oh my god, this is incredible, you can do this and i will never been to do this. I still think that. You should Read Everything Toni Morrison has written, everyone should. Some writers writing today who inspire me today. I love catalinas latest novel can tour a, i read a lot of poets. And natalie diazs my brother was an aztec. I could go on forever but i wont. You had another question . Did you . Did someone else question . I have to call you up. Im a resident of northern wisconsin, lifelong resident of northern wisconsin. It is not that cold in madison. It was cold for me. Tell me about dance, the dances you did . Was a catharsis . Anger . Tell us about that. I studied music when i was a kid but it was more about performance, and performing for me specifically, performing a kind of strength, it was very often in miami when i started going through puberty, i felt the unwanted attention from men and i developed very early, felt like i was getting all this attention that i wasnt interested in so i wore very baggy jeans and basketball jerseys and tourist head to toe like a boy and didnt want to be looked at. Dancing was like that, pretending to be someone else, pretending to be stronger, pretending to be happy but it was also for me and my girls dancing is like what we did just because we needed something to do. We went to Bayside Marketplace where we could pay 3 to get on a boat that had a dance floor and music kind of got us through a lot, we needed to dance especially during that time, we needed music, so now when i look back at everything we lived through it felt like dancing was not just performance but resistance and survival. Thank you. Other questions . We please talk a little bit about your editing process . How much of the book was edited and how did you get with an editor and an agent publisher . My first step even before the book was finished i started submitting parts of the book to agents that i found online without really knowing anything about how publishing works, that was a mistake. Dont do that. There is plenty of information that is free on the internet, find out if youre interested in getting an agent, what kind of books you are interested in writing and what are the books out there in the market that are like yours, like the books you want to write and who are the agents who represent the writers you love or writers who are writing about something similar and do research on them. There is plenty of information, interviews and articles and profiles, there is a wealth of information out there about this but i went and submitted part of this book to an agent who was at a very big house and had a lot of very big name authors and she read one chapter and liked it and she offered me representation to me right away. I thought i made it, hit the lottery, got a big agent a big house, my book is going to be a bestseller and then i didnt hear from her for a very long time, she was a big agency and had very big clients and i was a very little little fish. She didnt have time for me. And so i kept writing and then i went to this writers conference and the suwanee writers conference a is an angel they are, Michelle Brower and i had signed up for a scholars reading and so i read from this book and she heard me read and she got my email from the conference and said would you submit some more to us . Because i had this very powerful agent i didnt send her anything and she wrote me a year later, you published this other essay, will you send me some more . I still didnt send her anything and by then i had already parted ways with my agent and the third year in a row she wrote me again and asked if i would send her something, what have i been waiting for, this agent has read other pieces and gets my vision and liked my writing so i sent her work, 100 pages that would eventually make it in this book. And asked if we could have a conversation, we had a conversation for an hour, talked about this book, what else i wanted to do in the future, possibly a career, how i envisioned my career and she offered me representation but the book wasnt ready to be sent so she gave me extensive notes and said go back and keep writing again, right the book so i went back with her notes and i wrote and i wrote and i wrote, three years later the book was ready and like i said the whole process took 12 years and when she thought the book was ready and polished she sent it to several editors, and i want to say we got a couple offers right away and before the book went into action we got a preemptive offer from algonquin books and i had a conversation with algonquin with my agent and i liked what she had to say about how she wanted to preserve my voice and not turn it into some commercial book. She wanted me to tell her what i wanted to do and help me get there and that is what i wanted. My other conversations with editors at big houses all been we can make this the next educated. I havent read educated but im pretty sure this is not that and every conversation i had had with editors was more about what they wanted me to do, kathy was more like i will work to help you get this to become the book you wanted to be and so we went with kathy at algonquin and i feel lucky to have had her as an editor. When i look back at the pages of what this book look like before i cant even believe you kept reading and i feel the process was very much a collaboration but i feel very lucky to have had her as an editor. Has your mother read the book and if so has that changed your relationship and if she hasnt, the mere existence of the book has it altered her in any way . My mother is not a reader. She doesnt read, but i talked with her extensively about the book and she knows that i am a writer, she knows what the book is about, shes a lot more interested in will there be a movie and who is going to play her. You all are laughing but im serious. Mom, i read a book. But so if you read the book you know that i was estranged from my mother for about 7 years, we didnt talk, i completely removed myself from her life and her familys life for my own Mental Health and when my grandmother died i felt like finally i could reach out to my mother and start some sort of relationship again. That took years. My mother is cleaned out, is an assisted living facility and we are able to have conversations and she calls me every day sometimes 3 or 4 times a day just to say i saw this thing on tv but it is difficult because my mother is an addict that even though shes clean she is still suffering Mental Illness and often i dont know what to expect so seeing her when i visit her and see her, requires me to do the kind of work that is harmful like i have to be harmful to my Mental Health, i have to be willing to forgive her every single time i walk in there, every single time i pick up the phone, i happen to be open to forgiveness, every single conversation, every single visit. Otherwise i wont be able to have a relationship with her and wont be able to live with myself. It is difficult but we do have a relationship. I just got engaged last year and my mom took a long time to accept first that i am gay, then that i am engaged to a person that is not a man and things having to do with gender. 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