Leslie Priscilla. Credit: Photo by Karissa Raya
Latinx Parenting, both an online and in-person bilingual organization, is not only rooted in social justice and intergenerational healing, but in the rights and well-being of Latinx children, who, make up 26 percent of the nation’s total child population. To best serve Latinx families, Latinx Parenting offers a multitude of workshops and courses, such as Decolonized Nonviolent Parenting, Ending Chancla Culture and Healing the Madre Wound, for families and current and former Latinx children. CALÓ NEWS spent time with Leslie Priscilla, Latinx Parenting’s founder, to discuss her own Latinx childhood experience, the inner workings and offerings of the organization and additional resources.
Priscilla, a non-Black Xicana mother, with her three bicultural children, ages 10, five, and three and a half.
Priscilla, founder of Latinx Parenting, teaches organization participants through their multitude of workshops, courses, and professional trainings.
Ending “Chancla Culture,” the oppressive strategies used in parenting against children to manipulate them, is one of Latinx Parenting’s priori…