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Welcome guys! Welcome back to my channel! First and foremost I want to
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But I'm back and better than ever. Probably by this title you're like 'wait,
what do you mean that you split on the stage with Amara La Negra'. We'll get into that
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the end. So this past weekend I attended the Afro-Latino Festival and for those
that don't know I believe this is the fifth or the sixth year/ I believe it's fifth
year that it has run and it's basically now it's a three-day festival thing for
the last two years it's been three days and before that two days and one day. And
just to celebrate Afro-Latinos. There's a concert. There's panels and discussions.
There's a film festival and it's just like a great weekend and it's just
amazing. So I've been attending for the last two years so I went last summer and
the summer before. Usually when I attend I only go to
to the AfroLatin Talks, which are the panel discussions. Just because usually I
don't want to go to the concert by myself because I just don't have friends to go with me.
But this year, I changed that and actually decided to go to the concert and make
friends and meet some people that I interact with on Twitter so that was
cool. I'll just like tell you a little bit about it. So yeah so it was
this past weekend. So on Friday I attended the AfroLatin talks and there
were four talks. I unfortunately did not attend the first one just
because I was just in the process of getting there but I did attend the other
three. Sorry very quickly. I just want to want to get the names right. Okay the
first talk was The Intersection of Social: Media, Enterprises, and Movements.
The second was The Census in the Americas: Identity and Resources. The
third Race, Ethnicity, & Justice in the Americas and last but not least a One on
One with Ingrid Silva who is a Afro-Brazilian ballerina that dances for
the Dance Troupe in Harlem and they also had an award ceremony and a luncheon as
well because of course they have to give us lunch. So yeah so I think for me I
especially love the panel and discussions like one being the little
nerd that I am like I do love being able to engage in these conversations that I
either engage in offline whether it's like talking with myself about them or
just stuff that I have read from the internet but also learning new
information and things that I just didn't know before. And I really
appreciate because a lot of times they do have panels that are interesting and
they provide with a different perspective especially the Latin
American perspective which I'm just not as well-versed. I know certain
Latin American history. I just don't know as many Afro-Latin Americans if that makes sense. The
first conversation like I was saying that I attended was The Census in the
Americas: Identities and Resources and this was a panel moderated by Amilcar
Priestley and I'm might.. Priest-ley. I'm sorry if I mispronounce your name. And he along with Mai-Elka they are the ones
that are putting together this Afro-Latino Festival and the three panelists
that were with him were Urenna Best who is from Panama and she's the director of
the National Secretariat for Afro Panamanian Development in the Republic
of Panama. They had Monica Carrillo who founded this organization called Lundu
which advocates for Afro-Peruvians in Peru and last but not least Tanya
Hernandez who is a professor and she was kind of providing the U.S. context
in terms of like Latinos and Afro- Latinos. So it was... This conversation
was really interesting because even though I do you know understand the
census I've read stuff about the census or at least like how people identify
within the census I don't usually look too into it. So what was nice about this
conversation was it was talking about like how the census one like how
a lot of times like Afro-Latinos in different Latin
American countries are underrepresented um and also in the United States because
it is something that's self identifying and sometimes certain terms... Because in
Latin America there can be like up to five or six or even more depending on
the country different terms to basically say you're Black versus like in the
United States it's just Black and just talking about because of that like how
they have to navigate that space and making sure that all the possible like
after the Afrodescendientes in that area are counted and also talking about how that
affects like the resources that they have access to because through the
census you get information about like people's health care so what's happening
to AfroLatinos in this country in terms of health care? What's happening
to AfroLatinos in terms of education? And that's a way that you can lobby for
policies because you can say hey like look AfroLatinos are disadvantaged in
this sector we need to put money into A, B, and C to advocate for them to have
better educational opportunities and things like that.
Um so it was really cool. I really loved especially hearing from like Monica Carrillo
and Urenna Best because they were providing that like Latin American
context and like explaining you know what basically was going on in their
country. Like something I didn't really know was in terms of Peru um Monica Carrillo
talked about how it was this two trips that they took. So there was the
first trip that all slaves that were taken to the New World. The New World (in finger quotations)
took which was the Middle Passage which was coming from Africa across the
Atlantic into the Caribbean and into Latin America and into the United States.
But then there was also a second trip that Afro-Peruvians took which was from
the Atlantic to the Pacific to get to Peru and how also in Peru because of the
geography it was hard for them to form maroon communities that were common in
some other countries and basically like maroon communities or essentially either
runaway slave communities or freed slaves communities and sometimes they
would run into like the mountains or just difficult terrain that they know like
slave masters wouldn't come to, to basically
escape slavery. So it was really interesting hearing about that and
hearing about what her organization had done like they were able to lobby for
morena and moreno to be included within like the Peruvian census. They
created a virtual census for Afro Peruvians and they were also able to get
racial insults listed as a sociological violence and I was like oh man so yeah
y'all popping and I'll definitely include the links to all their websites
and everything so you guys can read more and get to know more about them. So after
that they gave out some awards. They gave out two awards to Marielle Franco and
Bernardo Cuero and if you don't know about Marielle Franco basically she
was an Afro-Brazilian woman that was fighting for Afro-Brazilians especially
like poor Afro-Brazilians living in the favelas and she was shot and killed and
that was about over a hundred days ago so it was fairly recent. Bernardo Cuero, sorry,
he was an Afro-Colombian who was
advocating for Afro-Colombians and he was killed last fall and so were his
sons and I also learned to..not today but on Friday that I think since like June
about over like 150 Afro-Colombians,
indigenous Colombians, and campesinos have just been
killed by the government because of like the action and activism that they're
engaging in. So they were both given awards posthumously *trying to pronounce the word* POSThumously
posthumously posthumously. I don't, I don't English. I'm sorry. *whispers* I'm sorry you know I'm not
perfect. I'm not perfect. *phone drops*Ayy coño um and also Ingrid Silva who is the Afro-Brazilian
ballerina like I was talking about. Oh so the next panel was called Race
Ethnicity, and Justice in the Americas and this panel was moderated by
Nana Brantuo. Oh probably mispronouncing and I apologize and the three panelists
Seth Steed, Janvieve Williams, and Nicole Cabral and
this conversation is very interesting because again it provided the U.S.
context okay like what's happening to certain AfroLatino communities here
but also talked about what's also happening within Latin America um like
ooh like we talked a lot about gentrification but do we know about a
lot about what the gentrification that is happening within Latin America like
mainly, like mainly indigenous and AfroLatinos being displaced from their homes
for the sake of either organizations a.k.a corporations coming in to use the land
or other reasons just basically being moved out of their homes and we talked
about gentrification here so it's the same things. These same
processes are being repeated in other areas and it was cool because Nicole
Cabral talked about Afro Bolivians and for me like I know about Bolivia as in
like I know it's a country and I know it exists
um but you know AfroBolivians is not something that I would have you know, heard about
that's why this channel is here so I can learn new
things and I think also just in general the conversation about AfroLatinos and
AfroLatinidad oftentimes revolves around either Caribbean Latinos usually
Caribbean Latino um sometimes... yeah mainly mainly Caribbean
honestly so you really don't really get that like Afro-South American experience.
There is I think a little bit of like an Afro-Central American especially in the
context of Panama and the Garifuna but not all Garifunas
one, identify as Afro Latinos so there's that.
But I think the Afro-South American experience outside of Brazil
because Brazil is one country that they do talk a lot about the afro presence
you don't really hear about it and I think that is something that we
have to do better with and I think and something that I really liked was when
Janvieve talked about like how as Afro-Latinos in the U.S., we are you know
striving to get connected more connected to our culture specifically like the
Afro roots within our culture but also connected to other Afro-Latinos within
the Latin American context because I think while my connection for
example to DR is important and it's special like my culture is beyond just
Dominican Republic like my experience has an AfroLatinas is beyond just
Dominican Republic. It also extends and there's a lot of similarities with like
Afro-Brazilians, Afro-Panamanians, etc., etc and so on and so far. So I really
liked how we have that kind of global connection that we are creating and for
me, I think this conversation was especially relevant because recently and
I tweeted about this I just feel like within the United States there isn't a
central AfroLatino movement. A lot of it it just revolves around identity
politics in the sense like 'hey I am Black and Latino' and I think we have to
like move past that and actually start creating a movement towards something and
creating a movement like what issues are let's say affecting us differently than
affecting Latinos? What issues are affecting Latinos and how are we not being
represented, like for example the issue of immigration right now a lot of the
faces that are shown are you know typically more indigenous Latinos but
we're not talking about like how Afro-Latinos, how Haitians are being
massively screwed over by this policy. So different things like that I think are
very important and I think we need to start as US Latinos, start
thinking about okay like what is this activism that I want to engage in.
Because we see what's happening in Latin America right now like people are
literally getting killed for this work and I'm not saying yes we should kill
for this work but I'm saying there needs to be more than just saying 'hi I exist I am
Black and Latino' because also like at some point if you want to believe it, if
you don't want to believe it, that's up to you
I cannot be involved personally. So, so I think that conversation is very
important and Janvieve actually mentioned an organization that she's
starting and once I get more details about that I'll also include it. And the last conversation
that was had was the One-On-One with Ingrid Silva and what I think was really
interesting because it was talking more from an artistic experience like her
experience being a ballerina and how she came from Brazil into the United States
I just loved her like personality like at one point she was
basically asked like what is her like who was her inspiration and she said I
am my own inspiration like I've done so much and I pushed myself so far. And she
was just like a great person, just a great person to hear from and I think
what was really also great was having an Afro-Brazilian because I think
especially in the context of like while people do talk about their that there
that Black people exist in Brazil, I think there in a very interesting
position because they don't speak Spanish and a lot of times, even though
Latino does not mean just countries that speak Spanish because it just that's
like just not in the definition, a lot of times we do just pretty much talk
about the Spanish-speaking countries and not like the countries that speak other
languages like Haiti, sorry, Haiti and Brazil Brazil so it was just really nice to have
like her presence and like just speaking about her experience in Brazil and her
experience coming here, what dance means to her, and all that
cool stuff. So yeah Friday was just great and for me one
thing that I really enjoy and I'll actually link the blog post I'm writing
about that is how affirming the space is. Like for me I don't really have an area
or a space where I can talk about my identity being Black and Latina like I
have spaces where I can talk about being Black and being a Black woman but not
like that specific... like how I navigate kind of in a certain way being erased
from both from the Latino community and the Black community and while I do just
personally identify more with the Black community because of how I
phenotypically look and just like my experience in the United States I think
there's something to be said about having that space where I can go and I
see other Afro Dominicans and other Afro-Caribbeans and other Afro-Latinos
and just being able to like hang out and listen to the same music, eat,
bond over similar food and not really having that really not really
having that too much in my house like yes we listen to like music and stuff
but there's definitely different ideas of what.. how much blackness we have and
with my friends like I have like maybe two Afro-Latino friends um so it's
just nice it's just it was just great and It just makes me very
emotional like I don't know there are no words to really describe like how it
just feels to be seen and to be represented and to like have your
identity affirmed like I'm no longer screaming "I'm Black and Latina" I just
AM. Yeah so that was the first day and it was great and I met amazing people
and got to connect with amazing people so I'm very grateful to that. But now we
get to the fun part which is probably why you're here because you're like girl
why have you been rambling for like 15 plus minutes we want to talk about
you splitting on the stage with Amara La Negra.
So day two, well day two is the Film Festival which I did not attend so
I will not speak on that. But Day Three is the actual like the festival and the
concert portion you get to see the vendors and everything and like see
I bought these two things from vendors. So I went.. So it's from like 2:00 to 10:00
p.m. so I was tired so I was just not I was just not getting there on
time. It was just not happening. So I probably got there around maybe sixish
so I was able to see half of the performances. So the performances I saw
were Latasha, Profetas, La Tribu de Abrante, and Amara La Negra.
I'll like insert some clips here and there so you guys can see them and it was just
it was amazing. It was great. It was hot as hell too. Woo, it was hot. Um but it was great just
being around so many people that we're just like there to have a fun time and
good energy and I was also connecting with like people that I had followed on
Instagram and Twitter and just like 'oh yeah like I follow you on Instagram
like you're amazing' dadadada and this this and that. So that was also
nice like finally getting that like Afro-Latino connection that I've been
striving for. Um so yeah so also the food was great. I bought this just like smoked
mac and cheese and like smoked beef brisket sandwich. A+ A+++
No complaints. Nope just I don't have any complaints. But I will complain about is the
drinks were not strong. *begins whispering* They were not strong. I was very confused. *stops whispering*
They were this big. They were like eight dollars. You know I
was kind of just like 'why did I do this myself?'
But it's okay my bank account is crying a little bit but it's fine. Um so yes
actually first I'll talk about these two items. So these two items I bought, so
these earrings are from sorry Babe Comets and I'll post a link to
their Instagram below. They're really cute. They were like $15. They have like
different colors and everything and they have ones that are just like the
pom-poms. I just really like them. Like I'm really trying to.. I usually do studs
or like hoops and I'm really trying with more like statement earrings and
being out there. So that was really cool and I got this head wrap for $10 from KeAfrica,
and they are located in Brooklyn. I'm not specifically sure where but I
will again I'll add all that into the description box, and I was just happy
because one I've been looking for a head wrap for forever and $10 and $10 for a head wrap say less and
like I said I just wanted some statement earrings so that was really cool and
there were also other different vendors there like that were selling hair
products, jewelry, t-shirts. There was AfroLatino Travel talking about
the travel opportunities that you can have. I also bought a t-shirt from them
on Friday that says Orgullosamente. I'm probably pronouncing this
wrong. Afrodescendiente. So Yeah so those are like the stuff that I
bought. I think it's really cute. I'm gonna be posting a picture later of a
look I did with all my makeup and everything. So stay tuned for that.
Um so yeah the festival like I said was great. The music was great. I really
liked Latasha because homegirl she just she was just rapping and just giving.
She was giving me life just life just just life life. I literally will insert a
clip so you can see like just life like just
Profetas was really cool to hear. They're an AfroColumbian group. And like beautiful voices.
So by that time it was probably 9 p.m. and we.. Amara was supposed to come at 9 but I think like
stuff just happened. So it was 9:00 p.m. and La Tribu de Abrante, they are
an Afro-Puerto Rican group and they play Bomba which is an Afro-Puerto Rican
music style and oh my god. There was just so it was it was amazing and I will also
insert the clip of me dancing um and if you follow me on and if you follow me on
Instagram and you saw me like putting all the stuff on my stories. It was just
it was great like my literally it's like I felt the ancestors move through me and I
just had to I just I just had to move. It was just great. Amazing. Ten out of ten would
recommend to a friend
And last but not least my queen, the amazing, Amara La Negra
*singing Se Que soy*
So I Iiterally told myself, I was like one I need to get a picture with her, if I can get on stage, I'm going to get on stage. Like I literally I had a game plan.
I was ready. So we were pretty close to the stage. It was probably just a group of
people like just like one line in front of me and then I was right behind. I'm also
short so things get a little bit difficult. But she performed Insecure, Dutty Wine.
She performed new music and it was just great. I'll probably also insert the clip
of me dutty whining because she said 'do you know how to do it'?. I was like
You know what maybe, maybe I do just just, okay
Composure
So yeah so then she put on "Ayy" and she's like okay I'm looking for four dancers
to come on stage. And y'all, y'all don't understand. So for context you
probably see my pictures and can tell I'm short. I am 5'2 so literally when
I tell you I had in my hand all the way up. I was jumping up and down like 'me me me
me' I was like listen I am getting on that stage. I don't care what anyone says.
I will get on that damn stage and one of her dancers he said 'I want you'. I
said we here so we get on stage and she's like so you guys gonna do a dance
competition. So they said ladies first so one of the
other girls went you know she was I know cursing probably not allowed but she was
fucking it up. I was like 'you go sis. you go". So it's my turn and in my head I'm
literally like okay you know I know I can split a little bit not a full split
I'm like this far from the ground. I gotta stretch. But sometimes it doesn't
work out when I try to do it. So I was like ooh am I gonna be able to do it
today you know what you know we're gonna try it.
We're just gonna go for it you know screw it. Okay just throw it all out. os I
went on and she's like okay we're counting on you we're counting on you
ladies and Amana kept telling me that. I was like okay and then I start like
stretching again I'm just gonna put the video so you guys can see me just being
literally just being a headass and literally like as I'm dancing I'm like
okay am I gonna be able to do the split and I'm like okay Gabi just screw it.
You might as well just go for it and it worked. I was surprised
Amara La Negra fell on the ground. I said I can die in peace I can die in peace
bye
*Amara speaking* Let me tell you something we're depending on you. You're the last girl.
*Amara continues* You gotta do it right.
Yeah so I literally was just like I've done everything I need to do.
I've accomplished everything I need to do in life. Okay so that was fun and then
it was we were competing for a champagne bottle which I didn't know but I was
like okay free alcohol. *whispers* I'll take it. So it was me against this other guy
that they thought, they thought we did the best and then we started dancing and listen this
boys hips. He was moving. Listen so I was like okay you ready and then I just
drop it into the split and just keep going just bouncing up and down
literally my head I was like yo Gabi will you still be able to do this you're
gonna be sore tomorrow but it's okay and it was just it was
just amazing like
My life has been made. Literally when I was on stage once I got up I was
like I know I'm gonna be sore tomorrow but it was worth it. It was worth it. So I
won a champagne bottle. I made Amara La Negra fall to the ground and I did
a split on the stage. So my life has been made and then after that the festival was
over but I think overall one I'm just like grateful to Amilcar and Mai-Elka
and all the rest of the team that puts this festival together because like I
said there's something to be said about being in a space where you are affirmed
and affirmed within your identity and like being around other people that have
similar experiences to me um as an Afro Latina it was just
like great and especially because I'm always trying to have these
conversations like I'll have them on Twitter like I'll engage with some of
like my mutuals um but like being able to like to talk with people in person
about these things it's just like great um and again like I met people that I
follow on Twitter and Instagram so that was also amazing and what was also
really cool um you know we were all dancing and having fun and then it was
like six of us, five of us, five of us So it's five of us and it's all
AfroLatina women from all over and we get on the train and we're
talking and we start talking about gentrification like how New York City is
like completely changing and it's just so crazy because I think that just
represents me so well like going from this space where I'm twerking. I'm
whining. I'm moving my hips. I'm dancing. I'm having fun. But also being able to go
into the space where I'm talking about like issues that are affecting us today
and I think that's just like me in a nutshell so just all in all the Afro-Latino
Festival was just amazing um I have in the description box a little
blog post that I wrote about like why it's so important to me so you guys can
read that because I want this more to be just to tell you what went down um and
yeah you know
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