Mariana Alessandri is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and is an affiliate faculty in Religious Studies, Mexican-American Studies, and Gender and Women’s Studies. She values existentialist philosophers like Søren Kierkegaard, Miguel de Unamuno, and Gloria Anzaldúa, and her writing aims to persuade people not to cast a nasty eye on anger, sadness, failure, anxiety, grief, disappointment, etc.