Marissa Guadarrama

Marissa Guadarrama

Senior at Downtown Magnets HS. I write about social issues ranging from racism to women's issues to environmental issues.
Poem: Brown Girl

Poem: Brown Girl

I’m an American, born of Mexican immigrant parents. All my life, I’ve been too Brown for some and too white for others. The brown-skinned girl with an extensive vocabulary, goals, and dreams, the definition of white. But, it’s never subdued the persistent, underlying...