Personally, I Identify a lot with this week’s readings, especially with “Too Black to be Latina, Too Latina to be Black”. I think I have said it plenty of times in my posts, but I’m a black Latina, I lived my whole life in Guatemala, a Latin American country, until 2020 when I moved to New York. Here I have experienced a major identity crisis because black people’s culture in the U.S. is drastically different from mine, also most Latino people here (at least from my generation) were born in the United States, so they have a lot of purely American culture, some can barely speak Spanish, so I also feel out of place with United States Latinos. It is complicated to feel like you don’t fit in anywhere because it creates some sort of loneliness since you feel like no one understands your experiences. Belonging to multiple minorities it’s terrible too because you are at a lot of disadvantage just for being who you are, while there are people who are being praised because of that. Also, there’s no one who really thinks and cares about you, so it’s very complicated to find support and allies to combat your specific oppression. For example, the Combahee River Collective was not thinking about Afro-Latina immigrants, so my struggles as a part of that group wouldn’t be relevant to them. We still have a long way to go in order to achieve rights for everyone. Something essential to achieve that is developing a sense of empathy towards other communities and supporting them as well