Skip navigation! Story from Beauty. Like many Latinxs, Luna Diaz, a year-old retail associate in New York, had to learn how to navigate her identity beyond the stereotype portrayed in TV and film — of the cishet , curvaceous woman with dark features and a broken accent. And she's not alone in her experience. This damaging form of objectification degrades an individual to a single identifier, drowning individualism and perpetuating fetishism. So eight multi-ethnic women — who all identify as Latinx in some way — are rewriting their narratives. Below they explain, in their own words, who they really are. I got a lot of questions like, "Why is your grandma so dark?
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What of a woman but her own relativity to man. What of I but the object of desire. Paint me like one of your Mexican women. Nude, posed, with a mirror and call me vain. Paint me with hips, wide, that extend farther than the length of my body. Fetishize me. Then call me vain. Call me chonga.
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Our editorial content is not influenced by any commissions we receive. As those of you with a calendar worth a turd know, not only is today Mexican Independence Day, but it also marks the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month in the United States. Now you may be asking yourselves: Why begin a heritage month on the 15th? Turns out there are competing stories: one goes that its founders actually planned to start the month on September 1st, and set off from their homes that very morning to get the accreditation completed at the national heritage month office in downtown Phoenix.
Nice white women participate in white supremacy too. North American men may be handsome but not as sexy as European or Latin American men. The work we are doing to drive equity, equality, eliminate bias and inspire inclusion is about acceptance, and activation of the sameness and the differences of all of us.