Oct 7, 2026 · 34 min · 13 segments
🎙️Carrie On! What happens when you stop waiting for permission and build the room yourself? Rozalyn "Roz" Lucero Corona is the founder and executive director of Chingona Community, a nonprofit that…
First, tell us, you know, what does Chingana community mean? Where did you come up with the name? First, tell everyone, all the white women out there, what does that word mean? Yeah.
Actually, there's a few different cultures that get stumbled on the word.
So chingona is a mujer who is known as fearless, intelligent, and the acronym is badass.
So a lot of my, actually a lot of my male friends would send me messages.
And I even myself, I'm like, okay, well, does that mean bad? I hope you guys are really pumping me up.
So in my brain, I started really like believing in being my inner Chingona.
And I had told my husband, I said, you know, I want to start an organization.
I go, what do you think people will think about the word Chingona? I said, are they going to be really thrown off? Are they going to be very, um, Because it still wasn't really accepted at that time.
And I said, do you think folks are going to think it's too rough? But then that's me.
First, tell us, you know, what does Chingana community mean? Where did you come up with the name? First, tell everyone, all the white women out there, what does that word mean? Yeah.
Actually, there's a few different cultures that get stumbled on the word.
So chingona is a mujer who is known as fearless, intelligent, and the acronym is badass.
So a lot of my, actually a lot of my male friends would send me messages.
And I even myself, I'm like, okay, well, does that mean bad? I hope you guys are really pumping me up.
So in my brain, I started really like believing in being my inner Chingona.
And I had told my husband, I said, you know, I want to start an organization.
I go, what do you think people will think about the word Chingona? I said, are they going to be really thrown off? Are they going to be very, um, Because it still wasn't really accepted at that time.
And I said, do you think folks are going to think it's too rough? But then that's me.
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