Diva is usually used as a derogatory term to talk about women that are "too dramatic, too demanding, or too much", but has been reclaimed to mean a powerful and strong character

• Rock, doo wop, etc

  
  

Tejano music usually is a form of cumbia that was really solidified by Selena y Los Dinos

• A study by the State University of New York at Albany showed that Latinas/os who identify as “black” have lower incomes, higher unemployment rates, higher rates of poverty, less education, and fewer opportunities

Also, segregated residential patterns of Afro-Latinas/os in areas of African American settlement allow Afro-Latina/o youth to be introduced to African American culture, which impact their decision to identify as Afro- Latinas/os.

• the ways we care for ourselves and for our communities, our relation to our landscapes, the discourses we create, the artistic work we produce in different media, and the imaginaries and emotions that are precariously disembodied into language

• movement within communities and orgs

• participation in different movements

• how Black women move

• "transitioning in the world by transcending, trans-ing life"

• Being mais viva becomes the result & a state to avoid death 

• Related to “vigilant awareness,” the critical thinking required to create a community and discover self love by confronting racist sexist and transphobic messages 

• Includes traces of lived experience and performances of lived experience

• Builds community

• Type of activism that disrupts established boundaries

• Pushes us toward new ideas and understanding

  
  

Boleros challenge and create nuances in male and female gender norms.

• This framing invites a deeper reflection on how our desires can be revolutionary.

• What does it mean to reclaim desire in a way that is both deeply personal and politically charged?

The complexity of boleros is shown in this quote because it shows how it's difficult to fully and accurately capture the meaning of what's being said when translating. It's multi-layered it's in poetry.

Kimberly Duong

Allison Gau

Chedwens Souffrant

• Rivera’s “las malandrinas” and her performances demonstrated a "sonic disobedience to normative Mexicanidad or Latina citizenship"

• Jenni Rivera's music provided a sense of personal connection to Mexicans because they could deeply relate to her performances with their own experiences.

• "how forms of movement come to be defined as forms of cultural identity"

"...the sounded j or jota in Jenni is understood in this essay as signaling a potential for queer cultural politics in Jenni Rivera’s musical performances, especially the queer performances of mexicana femininity in relationship to the neoliberal projects of Latina/o citizenship" (Vargas 2018, 31)

Goes hand in hand with listening in detail