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Growing up Latine American: Hispanic/Latine Heritage Month

(DISCLAIMER: I use the term Latine as a gender neutral term, not Latinx. Part of this is because it can actually be said in Spanish and part of it is just that it’s how identify as a nonbinary person :) )

As I’m sure most of you know, it is Hispanic Heritage Month. There’s controversy about whether it should be Latine Heritage month or not, but honestly, I am not here to argue about that. I prefer to call it Latine Heritage Month.

With it being our heritage month, I’ve had a lot on my mind regarding my identity as a Mexican American. that I think may ring true for a lot of others as well.

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Congratulations to @manalochelsea! Chelsea makes history as the first #Black & #Filipino-American representative of the #Philippines for Miss Universe! 👑

Following the theme of "Love For All," delegates shared their thoughts on the kind of love that makes a woman both inspiring & transformational. ❤️‍🔥

Chelsea Anne Manalo — born on October 14, 1999 under the astrological sign Libra — is 25 years old. ♎️

She is a proud #FilipinoAmerican Bulakenya who was raised in Meycauayan City, Bulacan. She was born in the Philippines to a Black American father & a Filipino mother, who separated in 2000. Following the divorce, her mother remarried a Filipino man. In 2004, she reconnected with her biological father in the United States, where she completed her grade school education. 🇵🇭🇺🇸

Before graduating from a tourism college, she expressed deep passion for music, dancing & modeling. Her journey into the world of beauty pageants began during high school. 🎵💃🏿💋

Chelsea is a professional model who has been gracing the cover of magazines, starring in commercials & print ads since 2013 at the age of 14. In 2021, she became a @benchbodyph endorser. 👠

Outside of high school, Chelsea's major debut into the pageant scene was through #MissWorldPhilippines 2017, she competed against 34 other candidates & made the Top 15. 💅🏿

On February 17, 2024, she was officially appointed Miss Universe Bulacan 2024. She also earned the title "Bulacan Barbie." Her advocacy reads: "Championing Indigenous Youth Education." Her advocacy aims to provide opportunities for #indigenousyouth to access quality education & unlock their full potential. 👯‍♀️

"As a woman of color, I've always faced challenges in my life. I was told that beauty has standards actually. But I have listened to always believe in my mother, to always believe in yourself, uphold the vows that you have in yourself. Because of that, I am already influencing a lot of women who are facing me right now as a transformational woman. I have here 52 other delegates with me who have helped me become the woman I am today." 👸🏾

As fellow #BlackFilipina #Saweetie would say: "IKDR!" Congratulations Chelsea! 🏴🇵🇭🇺🇸

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Today years old learning that #KerryWashington is in fact mixed race!

Kerry Marisa Washington is an #American actress, producer, and director. She gained wide public recognition for starring as crisis management expert Olivia Pope in the ABC drama series Scandal. For her role, she was twice nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series and once for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama. Time magazine included her in its Time 100 list of most influential people in 2014. In 2018, Forbes named her the 8th highest-paid tv actress. She’s won a Primetime Emmy Award and 5 NAACP Image Awards, including The President’s Award. President Obama is a huge fan of hers.

She was born in the Bronx. Her father is #Black and her mother is mixed. “My mom comes from a #mixedrace background but from #Jamaica, so she is partly #English and #Scottish and #NativeAmerican, but also descended from #African slaves in the Caribbean. My dad’s family is four or five generations Brooklyn-based, but before that from South Carolina, and we are not sure which members of his family were slaves and which were free blacks.” Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell is her cousin.

“I was really lucky to be raised by a woman who taught me that what was inside was much more important than what was outside.”

Another fun fact is that she can dance. "I’ve been taking dance for a long time, since I was a little girl. I had this very inspiring teacher named Larry Maldonado, for anybody from my neighborhood in the Bronx, he was our role model. And he had an awesome substitute teacher named Jennifer, who would sometimes step in and teach. But, then she left to move to Los Angeles and be on the TV show In Living Color. So, yes, I learned to dance from JLo!” 🇯🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸 #mixedgirl #til https://www.instagram.com/p/CVJY2VOlWyf/?utm_medium=tumblr

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The only appropriate way to spend St. Patrick’s Day is to continue to stand up against the occupation and oppression of all people around the world. 🇵🇸🇮🇪

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Stay strong my people. Stay strong.

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RAYE extends her record as the artist with the most wins in one year in #BRITs  history, with 6 wins:

– Album of the Year

– Artist of the Year

– Song of the Year

– Best New Artist

– Songwriter of the Year

– Best R&B Act

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The Zodiac Series: Book 1 - Capricorn Ch. 1 (Patrons Only) NOW AVAILABLE FOR EVERYONE!

Being able to watch my stories has always been a dream of mine and now you can!

Since I can't post bonus content like this on Wattpad and since I put so much work into it...I don't think it should be free tbh lol. Here's a special edition of the first chapter of Capricorn for patrons only but now available for everyone! Subscribe to me for more awesomeness and for all an all access pass to all my work! Let me know what you think!

Butterfly 🦋

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this post is for all my white followers. just remember it wasn’t that long ago.

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OLIVIA RODRIGO get him back! (Official Video) | September 12, 2023

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New footage of Meghan Markle at Renaissance Day 3 in LA

I spy Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos, Kris Jenner & Jeff Bezos

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Rihanna in 2017｡･ﾟﾟ☆⊹

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"Side-By-Side"

Ard Gelinck Art

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Janae Roberts

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I can understand and not agree

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Esperanza Spalding wore a keffiyeh and Aja Monet carried a watermelon purse in solidarity