So much. Gloria and gloria, thats so interesting because i think lot of us have had to, still deal with, that still have t living in both worlds. But dina, you were forced to embrace one identity and hollywood, right i feel like i was living in three worlds there was my world that i grew up in, also Spanish Speaking home, human parents, and the you go out to the world and i speaking english, and im in the bronx, south bronx and then going into this industry as an actress, then nobody recognizes you as eithe one. There was no place for me as a latina, and then as a blac woman, i didnt identify as black woman because for me, it was cultural because of course, i present black, im a black women, i am also cuban when you are here in the unite states and they ask you, put you into a box, and you don fit into the box, culturally i was different. It was not one that identified with, but to work, to survive, it was something that i had to learn. To then learn to be whatever black was. And then
i feel like i was living in three worlds there was my world that i grew up in, also spanish speaking home, human parents, and the you go out to the world and i speaking english, and i m in the bronx, south bronx and then going into this industry as an actress, then nobody recognizes you as eithe one. there was no place for me as a latina, and then as a blac woman, i didn t identify as black woman because for me, it was cultural because of course, i present black, i m a black women, i am also cuban when you are here in the unite states and they ask you, put you into a box, and you don fit into the box, culturally i was different. it was not one that identified with, but to work, to survive, it was something that i had to
i m thinking, you know, i m a real latina. identify as a real latina, right? my family came to this country as farmworkers, never went bac to mexico. did not go back to mexico an where i m from in ohio, there no question i am mexican when people see me, i mexican. but when i went to chicago for college, that s actually when got more questions about whether i was mexican enough so, i feel like we have to confront ourselves on thes things as well yes, it s very much lik that but then you are talking about the media and how we are in box, so what s changing with that, gloria because, you know, come on gloria this is my sister, this i my sister. i won t do anything without this woman i won t do anything without this woman a lot of people are changing, i m blessed to be in a - shining the spotlight on m change, but it is a lot of awesome young storytellers tha are out there that just need the opportunity. i mean, for this past year of latino
but - there is also word for it it was the power to recognize. it code switching i just learned that and i feel like i could switch all the time i m from the inner city of chicago. i code switch so that intercit stuff to, like, okay, yes, the property, to the hollywood thing and the boxes that the love to put this and i hollywood. you are talking about, is i prevalent in the latin community to the fact that our latina dad i not, you know, accepted or it not talked about it s interesting for me t hear that because when i loo to media outside of, like, m home for representation, it wa women like you, very few onscreen, which was an african american television market where i couldn t piece togethe like, oh my goodness torres is her last game, wow growing up in the bronx, man of us are, you know, black and brown, but i just could not be that, you know i hoped that at some point, we
learn. to then learn to be whatever black was. and then feel like i was alienating that other part o myself, that latina self it just kind of became i jed mind trick to keep myself from just being sad all the tim about not being able to full experience and express the entirety of myself i think that s ou superpower though, ultimately. the fact that we had thi discomfort i tell my students, my own people now, that freak out tha you have, that, what did you call it? jedi gays? my jedi mind trick. jedi mind trick, okay, th fact that we can be in tha space where it s just like, am i enough am i here? and this and by that? it s my spanish good enough? is my english good enough? whatever, that is ou superpower it is the fact that we can liv with that.