brittni laura is a writer and a mama. you might know her from her work in education, food justice, the spiritual community, or the neighborhood.

when i am feeling down, i often check in with little britt. i tell her i love her and i call her back to her wholeness.

life is beautiful but it is also so hard. writing and books have always been an outlet for me and a source of comfort among the pain.

one author i read a few years ago described stories as alive, as living in and among us. she described how stories move us. we know this, we’ve known this for generations.

for me, the stories and the words have been alive inside of me for too long. and i need to let them out.

i am a millennial mom, working to balance the reality of our times with the call from our ancestors to return to all we know. a return to the whole. a return to each other and to the land.

i am from the Montoya, Trujillo, Archibeque, Hernandez families. i am a Queer, Indigenous Xicana from northern colorado, with roots in southern colorado and northern new mexico. i carry traditions of the land, food, community, and stories. i am practicing living a slow life, tending to the plantitas, cooking up medicine in the kitchen, and working with youth and families.