[Gabby Rivera]

Julián, thank you for this piece. The Read was sharp, powerful and a testament to the formations of sin vergüenzas everywhere. this is such a tremendous moment of quiet calculated power: I interrupted her and said calmly, “It’s hard when people tell us about ourselves without permission.” I picked up my snapple bottle, took a sip of pink lemonade, read my bottle cap, put it back on the cold glass bottle. Got up, zipped up my black hoodie, got my red sony CD player with headphones and left. I never saw her again.
i wanted to read more about those suburbs. feel free to dig into place and location and let those details tell their own part of the story. also this line gripped my whole spirit: How ashamed I was that my heart language was stolen from me
i wanted to learn more about how they learned their heart language was stolen from them. this is so good. keep going!