Miriam Zoila Pérez
Miriam Zoila Pérez
Justice Journalist
Washington, DC
@miriamzperez
Personal Website
TOPICS
Feminism
Gender
Health
Journalism
Race
Miriam Zoila Pérez is a queer Cuban-American writer and activist. Pérez, as they’re known, is the author of Camila Núñez’s Year of Disasters, a young adult fiction novel about a teen’s journey with mental health, family relationships, and queer and Cuban American identity. They are also the founder of Radical Doula, a blog that covers the intersections of birth activism and social justice from a doula’s perspective, and author of The Radical Doula Guide, a primer for politicizing doula work. Whether they’re outlining how racism actually makes people sick or exploring the rise of a “religious left” after Trump’s election, their journalism is known for pushing into new territory and visibilizing the previously invisible. Their reporting builds on over a decade of working in the reproductive justice movement and as a former editor of the pioneering feminist blog, Feministing.com.
Pérez’s writing has appeared in Fusion, The Nation, The American Prospect, and a number of anthologies. A lover of music, Pérez is also the co-host for the popular Latinx music podcast Radio Menea with Verónica Bayetti Flores. Pérez’s work has caught the eye of many: they were a 2010 Lambda Literary Foundation Emerging LGBT Voice in Non-Fiction, Curve Magazine named them Best Activist/Newcomer in 2010, and Latina Magazine profiled them as part of their 15th anniversary “Future 15.” Pérez brings a unique mix of rigor and gentleness that both informs and endears them to audiences worldwide, including during their widely-viewed TED talk and at countless universities.
Feminism, it’s time for a new approach. But let’s not forget why we’re here: because we’ve won. We’re here because feminism has transformed our society, and now it needs to transform itself for the next frontier: building a world where no one is limited, treated differently or discriminated against because of their gender identity.
“Miriam’s expertise is so comprehensive and she delivers it in such a thoughtful and inspiring, and sometimes even humorous way.
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