Award-winning poet Gabriela Garcia tells the story of multiple Latinas across time in the March 30 release.
“People talk about the immigrant experience but there are many.
It depends on where you’re coming from, class, race, and status.
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These are things I’ve always been aware of because of my own identity.”
“Specifically, I was involved in deportation defense work and organizing against detention.
“Race is something that I think a lot about,” Garcia shares.
“This is another area where Latinidad is not a monolith.
There’s such racial division within our community and certainly anti-Blackness runs rampant.
That story stayed with me for years.
Then we have the Salvadoran characters who are outsiders in Mexico and are seen a certain way.
She says, “Connect me to Hollywood, I’m ready.”
A version of this story appears in the April 2021 issue ofEntertainment Weekly.
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