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It might sound dramatic and a little grandiose, but as a Latina, I would like to be someone that gives a voice to my culture.

I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.

I also identify as a Latin person, a person who has Latin blood.

Shoutout to Latinas! You've been great at supporting me, and I appreciate you!

I definitely have some stereotypical qualities of being a Latina. I talk with my hands, which means I knock stuff over all the time.

My mom brought me up by herself, so I was a latchkey kid. I would walk myself back from school and spent a lot of time at home alone, watching TV. There weren't a lot of Latinas - or any women of color. And the ones I saw were usually presented as stereotypes or treated like jokes.

I have a rescue dog named Fideo, which means 'noodle' in Spanish, and a cat named Hutch.

We spent a lot of time on the beach when I was young so I'd also take pictures of seaweed and crabs.

I have a pet lizard named Puff, five goldfish - named Pinky, Brain, Jowels, Pearl and Sandy, an oscar fish named Chef, two pacus, an albino African frog named Whitey, a bonsai tree, four Venus flytraps, a fruit fly farm and sea monkeys.

I don't call myself Latin, I call myself Puerto Rican.