Here I will talk about my mother, my grandmother and women in puerto rico. How this culture has shaped my life, my art, my voice and my trauma. (This influenced “La Moda”)
(Mother and grandmother) As a Puerto Rican woman, born on an island that proudly writes patriarchy on its forehead, I like to see us as “storms wrapped in silk”. Some people find me special and exciting, glowing in a way, and others well they see right through my attempt to be all at once. My mother and my grandmother were into healing the mind through sound, unwavering optimism and a very neat denial of one’s own real flaws, it’s like they hid behind a bright smile and now so do I.
(PR culture) Women here, they’re expected to be perfect, but not just any perfect, they’re expected to be complete: independent, working, beautiful, virgins, mothers, with a great self esteem, who party and maintain a social life yet not too much that’s all she does. And yeah great, ik easy, but when you live in a very small island, there’s little that goes unnoticed and less that goes unjudged.
My views on classism in hispanic culture.
Addiction as a social experiment.