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Growing up, regardless of where we would move, I had always found it troubling to find a community I could be a part of. As a biracial child, my mom had to work her way up to where we are today. Making sacrifices to better ourselves to a place that was never thought of before. She is an example of a working-class single mom doing what is best with their children's well-being in mind. This contradicts the heteronormativity of the father being the money maker of the family but in communities of low income, this is not a choice, many women are still victims of the heteronormative from waking up early to get the children ready for school to coming home from work to start making dinner. As women, we are expected to put being a mother and a wife first and foremost but it is time for a change, we should focus on our own identities first to figure out who we are in this world, and to be happy with who we have become.

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La Rosa De Guadalupe truly is a beacon of faith and feminism. She, as a woman has been through many hardships in her life. But she was always able to be independent and take the role of a man in the sense that she watches over and protects us. However, this still aligns with heteronormativity because she is seen as a mother, a symbol of innocence, and she holds matriarch values in a way that she will do anything to protect her children.

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Being Biracial in itself can be oppressive. I have always grown up with a feeling of not "fitting in. Always asked if I could prove how Mexican or black I am by being told to "speak Spanish" or if I was "adopted" by blatantly ignorant people. My ethnicity is something that I can not hide, it runs through my skin and deeper in my veins. While I am appreciative of being Mexican and African-American there is no feeling of safety and security in my community due to my sexuality and gender. The embrace of heteronormativity expects women to get married, have children, and take care of the man who works and provides for the family. But do I want that? How do deal with this? What will the future hold for me?

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As someone who is still figuring things out with myself, my sexuality can be seen as an aspect of my identity that can be oppressive towards me because it completely contradicts the heteronormativity that has been ingrained in society. Many other parts of my identity have that same strength but I choose not to let them weigh me down. Even though they are all overlapped and intertwined which makes them powerful, I am content in each of the things that contradict my identities and make me, me.

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Figuring out my pronouns and the way I identify in society 

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I struggle with my own identity, with my culture and sex-assigned birth. As a result of the heteronormativity that is instilled that a woman's purpose is to reproduce. This factor measures if she has been successful in life, bonus points if it is a boy. But what about women's other goals and accomplishments? We continue to fight for our rights in a society that controls our bodies, is sexist, and expects us to be docile to men. We are more than that, we deserve to be free from the heteronormative block that surrounds us.