current projects & past publications
i'm working on the following projects simultaneously, and not necessarily in this order of priority: 1. the covid 2020-21 landfall on a constellation of tight kinships connected by blood and friendship; 2. the upcoming centennial of my maternal grandmother's teenage countryside marriage, unpregnant and untouched, to my grandfather--a landless farmhand born in 1885, who had already abandoned three common-law wives and their joint children. This union would spark and span four generations of domestic servitude, survival, and perseverance in the broadest sense of the word by her fem descendants; and 3. the dynamics of Black embodiment, colorism, and white supremacy w/in latinidad in an extended and chosen multi-racial family across borders.
literary journals
"A dimple here and there"--narrative nonfiction in Northern Otter Press/Journal, vol 4: Identity, feb 2022: https://northernotterpress.ca/products/northern-otter-journal-vol-3-identity
"Me Minus Yu"--nonfiction essay selected as the 2021 Inaugural Cusp Prize Winner for nonfiction with Stellium Literary Magazine, vol 1, issue 5 jan 2022: https://www.stelliumlit.com/volume-1-issue-5-cusp-prize
"You Used to be a Slave"--narrative nonfiction in The Acentos Review, august 2017: https://www.acentosreview.com/august2017/dulce-maria-reyes-bonilla.html
"Flores de Mayo"--nonfiction essay in La Galería Magazine, sept 2016: https://lagaleriamag.com/flores-de-mayo/
online news & features outlets
"Cuba's parliament now has three black vice presidents. How come that didn't make the news?"--translated article from Spanish original by another author in Global Voices, may 2018: https://globalvoices.org/2018/05/19/cubas-parliament-now-has-three-black-vice-presidents-how-come-that-didnt-that-make-the-news/
"Ilia Calderon's Promotion at Univisión Matters when it comes to Latino Representation"--article in mitú's fierce, nov 2017 (aged out of archive, pdf available upon request): https://fierce.wearemitu.com/author/dulcebonilla/
Immigrant Issues column in gothamgazette.com (aged out of archive), feb-aug 2001:
“The Anti Anti-Immigrant Movement” in aug ’01
“High-achieving students, but undocumented immigrants” in july ’01
“Census 2000 And The New Diversity” in june ’01 “The Immigrant Vote” in may ’01
“English Classes” in april ’01
“When immigrants are sick and uninsured” in march ’01
“LIFE and real life” in february ’01
anthologies
"pero, m'ija, where did you get that from?"--nonfiction essay in Daring to Write; Contemporary Narratives by Dominican Women, University of Georgia Press, 2016: https://ugapress.org/book/9780820349251/daring-to-write/
"dismantle stereotypes and misconceptions"--nonfiction essay in 50 Ways to Supoort Lesbian and Gay Equality, New World Library, may 2005: https://books.google.com/books/about/50_Ways_to_Support_Lesbian_Gay_Equality.html?id=O3Pk1-8oIZYC
"sexuality and dominicanness"--nonfiction essay in Desde la Orilla: para una nacionalidad sin desalojos'Up from the Margins; Diversity as challenge to the Democratic Nation conference, Editora Manatí 2004: https://books.google.com/books/about/Desde_la_Orilla.html?id=HUCijUB0LP8C
print magazines
'let's talk about sexo"--article in Colorlines Magazine, dec 2005: https://www.colorlines.com/articles/lets-talk-about-sexo