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It has been seven weeks since my arrival, and I have yet to develop the language around how I identify myself. I have found that "Afro-Latina" does not flow so smoothly in Portuguese. I arrived to Brazil a week before the Olympic Games, but I decided…

It really did look like Mars. As I glanced all around me, the orange sand stretched as far as I could see, with large rock formations protruding out of the ground in seemingly random locations. Speeding through the desert on the back of a 4x4 pickup…

I was born in a small pueblo in the state of Jalisco named Tecalitlan, or Teca as the locals call it. Jalisco is a green, mountainous state famous for its mariachi music, tequila, and charro culture. Teca is no exception. The birthplace of El…