Gabriela Linares
Bio
Just a girl trying to share her words and dreams.
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Latina, Queer, and Raising for Success
As I start to type, I go back in time to my childhood. Everything seemed so different back then and part of that was because I used to live in a different country where beliefs and values varied a little from the American ones. While I was living my early teenage years in El Salvador, there were a lot of things that seem quite impossible for me. Self discovery was tough, so I relied on lying and pretending to be like everybody else. In reality I was just trying to fit in. When I moved out to California, I had no idea how different things would turn out to be. My entire life up to that point I had only known the Latin culture. The only time I was exposed to a different one was through movies and TV; and we all know how those are modified. In the book, the definition of positionality says “Positionality refers to one's social location or position within an intersecting web of socially constructed hierarchical categories, such as race, class, gender, sexual orientation, religion, nationality and physical abilities to name a few (Sorrells 13).” By being Latina and part of the LGBT community I found myself belonging in both, non-dominant groups and dominant groups, yet I belong into the dominant group by having the ability of communication.
By Gabriela Linares5 years ago in Humans