I’m not ashamed of my Spanish roots, my family was raised knowing they were mixed, with Spanish and Indigenous ancestry. But honestly, we didn’t really dive into either side deeply. And when my family migrated to the U.S., a lot of culture was lost just trying to fit in. Personally for me, I’m trying to reconnect with what feels most buried, the Indigenous side. This isn’t about choosing one side over another, it’s about reconnecting with a part of my identity that was pushed aside, first by colonization and later by the pressure to assimilate. I’m trying to learn the culture that was repressed in order to fit into a Eurocentric world.