space-times, and cosmologies constitutes one…. But it is important that these ways are not just different…. These ways of being, valuing, and believing have persisted in the resistant response to the coloniality. (2010, 754)

Alternatively, I offer that Carisa is an incarnation of how Llanos-Figueroa sees and understands herself and uses her body politics and femi-nist politics to challenge knowledge production, including literature, moth-ering practices, and alternatives to medicine for healing, and archivization. While Carisa’s writing, which is a stand-in for Llanos-Figueroa’s writing, was initially rejected as ‘mythic nonsense,’ she writes anyway and puts her family’s stories on paper where they are no longer omitted or erased. Llanos-Figueroa’s novel is a representation of Afro-Puerto Rican (and Afro-Carib-bean) feminist decolonial work.