About Us
The Hermanas Escritoras is a women-led student run organization at UC Davis dedicated to authoring new possibilities in academic and science writing. We are a group of graduate and undergraduate students from different science and educational areas/backgrounds. We work toward making writing accessible and inviting to everyone. Part of our mission is to include more of our roots, languages, and lived experiences in writing for academic purposes. We believe creativity should be fostered not just in our personal lives, but in all writing courses. We recognize that discrimination, pressures to conform, racism, sexism, and other forms of oppression exist when it comes to writing and academia. Because of this, we must be aware of the different writing structures. However, we collectively push back on writing standards that perpetuate White Language Supremacy (WLS). Our collective work includes critical dialogue and action that transforms the current writing curriculum, so that it is more inclusive of different writers’ voices that have not been historically included in academic writing.
