Afro–Latin Americans

Why didn't you ever tell me that aliens existed? And she was like, I don't know what you're talking about.

Aliens was so far from my Christian upbringing, being raised in an African-American, Afro-Latino Christian household.

That was the farthest thing from their awareness.

But my father being a very intelligent man working in these different defense organizations and also living just 45 minutes outside of D.C. in Loudoun County.

I remember even having a brief question to my mother, why didn't you ever tell me that aliens existed? And she was like, I don't know what you're talking about.

Aliens was so far from my Christian upbringing, being raised in an African-American, Afro-Latino Christian household.

That was the farthest thing from their awareness.

But my father being a very intelligent man working in these different defense organizations and also living just 45 minutes outside of D.C. in Loudoun County.

Why didn't you ever tell me that aliens existed? And she was like, I don't know what you're talking about.

Aliens was so far from my Christian upbringing, being raised in an African-American, Afro-Latino Christian household.

That was the farthest thing from their awareness.

But my father being a very intelligent man working in these different defense organizations and also living just 45 minutes outside of D.C. in Loudoun County.

Now, I know a lot of black people feel like this issue doesn't affect us.

But I promise you, when ICE comes, it doesn't matter if you're black, if you're brown, if you're Latina, if you're Afro-Latina, they don't care.

They're coming to instill violence and harm in our communities.

And the mayor has taken money most recently from Trump's LA GOP, and she's appointed a police chief who has outwardly said that he will not enforce sanctuary city ordinance compliance with the LAPD, that he will not.

Why didn't you ever tell me that aliens existed? And she was like, I don't know what you're talking about.

Aliens was so far from my Christian upbringing, being raised in an African-American, Afro-Latino Christian household.

That was the farthest thing from their awareness.

But my father being a very intelligent man working in these different defense organizations and also living just 45 minutes outside of D.C. in Loudoun County.

And we would like to do one, like, same egg donor, but one my child and one his biologically.

But finding an egg donor that kind of like my husband's Latino and I kind of wanted to find an Afro Latina to kind of be an egg donor.

But once you start getting into those kind of like nuances, kind of like those those little things that you kind of it makes the pool very small.

So just trying to find an egg donor that kind of like fits into kind of what we're looking for.

They want to have, you know, those questions asked.

And the, you know, the other thing that keeps me committed to the field is that I'm very committed to, to studying Black movements in Latin America and tracing the history of of Afro-Latin American political thought.

And there's still so much work to be done in that area.

And so I think, you know, making space for that is a really important project for me.

That's the other thing, right? We've forgotten about them, but they were talking to each other.

And some of them lived in the U.S. and people were in conversation.

And so I think it became really important for me to try to think about how... and to do the work of doing this research on Afro-Latin American thinkers and, you know, and a lot of that work, I mean, there's some of it now that's being done by a lot of historians and, you know, And I think that, you know, they've done a lot of important work, like, say, for example, documenting the Black press in various countries.

And they're using that as a way to talk about the kind of political ideas that Black people in various places like Brazil or in Cuba have.