Status Quo: Deconstructing My Latinx Identity

#FierceLatina $1200.00 each

Positive role models motivate us & teach us to uncover our potential. My 2018 series entitled #Fierce Latina showcases a small group of woman made visible/popular by social media. From Engineers, to Activists to politicians, these women demonstrate strength in a society that makes visible stereotypes. Negative stereotypes that lead discriminations, injustice, & barriers that exclude Latinx from opportunities.

#Fierce Latina-Patricia Valoy (painting SOLD)- Patricia is a Latina feminist activist and blogger, and a Civil Engineer who promotes STEM education for women. She received her Bachelor of Sciences from Columbia University, where she concentrated in Construction Management and Structural Engineering.

She combines her experiences as a Latina, a feminist, and an engineer to advocate and inspire girls considering careers in the fields of STEM and speak on transnational feminism. Patricia’s work mostly revolves around the Latino/a community, feminism, cultural identity, gender stereotypes, and workplace sexism

#Fierce Latina-Alexandra Ocasio Cortez- an American politician, educator, and political activist. On June 26, 2018, Ocasio-Cortez won the Democratic primary in New York's 14th congressional district covering parts of the Bronx and Queens in New York City, defeating the incumbent Congressman, Democratic Caucus Chair Joe Crowley, in what has been described as the biggest upset victory in the 2018 midterm-election season. 

 #Fierce Latina-Angy Rivera- is a leading activist for undocumented youth and immigrant rights who lives and works in New York City. She joined the immigrant rights movement in her late teens, went public about her undocumented status at age 19 and started a popular advice column—“Ask Angy”—for undocumented youth at 20. In 2013, she qualified for a U Visa (granted to non-citizen victims of certain crimes). Her story is central to the film Don’t Tell Anyone (No Le Digas a Nadie).

#Fierce Latina-Sabrina Gonzalez-Pasterski- By the time Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski (Cuban-American) was 13, she had learned how to fly a plane, built her own aircraft, and flown it solo. Since then, the aeronautical wunderkind’s academic career has similarly taken flight. Pasterski earned an undergraduate physics degree from MIT in three years with a perfect GPA and is now a Ph.D. candidate in physics at Harvard’s Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature.

 #Fierce Latina-Sarai Gonzalez- She made her professional acting debut at the age of 11 on the Spanish-language "Soy Yo" ("That's Me") music video by Bomba Estéreo. Cast as a "nerdy" tween with a "sassy" and "confident" attitude, her performance turned her into a "Latina icon" for "female empowerment, identity and self-worth". She subsequently appeared in two get out the vote videos for Latinos in advance of the 2016 United States elections. In 2018 she co-authored several volumes in a semiautobiographical chapter book series for children aged 7 to 10.

#Fierce Latina-Carmen Yulin Cruz- is an American politician who is the current mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Hurricane Maria lifted a “veil from our eyes”, said Carmen Yulín Cruz, her broad smile and warm manner belying the steely edge to her voice. “We are awake to our inequity – and our inequality,” the mayor of Puerto Rico’s capital city of San Juan told the Guardian on a recent visit to a political summit in Baltimore.