Throughout the reading, “Too Latina To Be Black, Too Black To Be Latina” by Aleichia Williams goes into great detail about Williams’ personal experience as a Black and Latina woman. Her experiences throughout life and more specifically school has caused her to reflect on the way people perceive others just based on the color of their skin and simply how they look. As we know, the world has been built on stereotypes, gender norms, and overall conformities which causes people to label others and put them in boxes which they did not ask or want to be in. Williams describes an experience at school when she was sitting at a table with other Latin girls who judged her based off of her darker skin complexion compared to theirs. They spoke in their respective language, Spanish, and didn’t understand why Williams was sitting next to them. They treated her as though she did not belong to their specific “group” therefore, she had no place socializing or being around others that didn’t look the same as her. Based on my own personal experiences, this struck a nerve in me that was unsettling. I am also a Latina woman who has a very light skin complexion that constantly gets me mistaken as a white woman therefore, when I go to a Spanish restaurant or a Spanish club I often get looked at funny as though I don’t belong there. Just like Williams, I also speak Spanish as everyone in my household does, my friends do, and their families do as well however, when I am in a setting where it is solely Latin people with darker skin complexions then mine they automatically greet or speak to me in English as though they are already assuming I don’t know how to speak Spanish. Similar to Williams, it makes me feel as though I am being stereotyped and my identity is being conformed to fit in one box that simply just does not fit.