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I do not get told I do not look Latina enough [https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/latinx-beauty-is-not-monolithic], and people are never in disbelief when they hear me identify as Latina. In fact, I have been told I look too Latina and that I act and look too Nicaraguan, specifically. Among

BY LORRAINE AVILA [https://www.teenvogue.com/contributor/lorraine-avila]OCTOBER 1, 2021 One thing BIPOC folks are going to do is storytell to survive, to thrive [https://www.teenvogue.com/story/12-radical-latinx-groups-building-powerful-cultural-community-spaces] , to sustain, to rememory [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/08/toni-morrison-rememory-essay]. Despite the ways the publishing

published SEPTEMBER 15, 2021 AT 10:47AM AM EDT I remember calling my mami from an inflatable mattress in a dingy basement I had just moved into. I remember the self-nurturing and self-assurance I had to do just to dial her number. I was calling my mami to tell her