I challenge you to find a play of mine where I specify race and one of the character isn’t Afro-Latine. If anyone had been paying attention to my work, I have always been writing about it. I can’t explain 31 years of living in this very specific culture to you in 3 sentences or less.Īn instance of this that sticks out to me recently was when an AD asked me why I was suddenly so interested in writing about the Afro-Latine experience. And it’s frustrating because they’re like “well can’t you explain it?” No, actually I can’t. It’s interesting to me that I have to explain my culture constantly to artistic directors who really never had to navigate their identity in the same way. Who have never really had to navigate their identity in the same way. ![]() That aside, well, aside, it’s interesting to me that as I navigate my identity, I am often reviewed by white (male) critics. I dunno.” And then white people have the AUDACITY to be like “well why don’t you take a DNA test?” Because they aren’t specific to African countries! Because racism! Because slavery! You know, thanks to slavery.Īside, it’s WILD to me that people think we should be “over” slavery because it “happened so long ago” when my white friends can literally be like “I’m Irish and German and Russian and here’s my coat of arms from the 1800s tattooed on my forearm” MEANWHILE most of the Black people I know are like “Listen I think I’m some sort of West African. And my grandmother taught me Spanish.įor most people on the African diaspora, narrowing down specifically “what” we are in an American understanding of race and ethnicity (which is completely f*cked by the way) just isn’t that simple. I grew up eating black soup and powder bun and johnny cakes and ceviche and pupusas. I know I grew up going to parties in my uncle’s backyard listening to music that ranged from ratchet to salsa and we all danced together. ![]() I know I grew up listening to reggae and rancheros. Though I don’t always have the right words for it, I know who I am, culturally. Afro-Latine seems a lot simpler most days. Personally, I identify as Black and Afro-Latine but I’m not great about always putting both. To be honest, I’m still figuring how I want to identify so it’s really interesting hearing how other people describe me and my work. And thanks to the slave trade, there’s really no way to find out about our African heritage. But also creole? Kind of? And there’s talk about my father’s father side being French…so there’s that. Then there’s my dad side which is even more confusing. We’re also a bit Honduran? We’re Belizean. We’re also British and Guyanese but not really. We’re Mexican technically (Afro-Mexican to be specific) but not really because we don’t culturally identify as that. On my mom’s side, somehow we’re Black but not really because we’re not Americans. If you’re going to use use it for very small, highly reusable things like buttons and form controls - and even then only if you’re not using a framework like React where a component would be a better choice.Lately, a couple of cousins and I have been trying to answer “what exactly are we?” We heard a lot of stories growing up. Changing styles is scarier - CSS is global, are you sure you can change the min-width value in that class without breaking something in another part of the site?.You have to jump between multiple files to make changes - which is a way bigger workflow killer than you’d think before co-locating everything together.You have to think up class names all the time - nothing will slow you down or drain your energy like coming up with a class name for something that doesn’t deserve to be named.If you start using for everything, you are basically just writing CSS again and throwing away all of the workflow and maintainability advantages Tailwind gives you, for example: Making changes in a project that has tons of custom CSS is worse. Yes, HTML templates littered with Tailwind classes are kind of ugly. Whatever you do, don’t use just to make things look “cleaner”. Changing the font-size for every instance is just as easy as it is with CSS, but now you can turn all of the titles into links in a single place too. Sure you can update the font-size for every instance in a single place, but what if you need to turn the title into a link?Ĭomponents and template partials solve this problem much better than CSS-only abstractions because a component can encapsulate the HTML and the styles. chat-notification Įven if you create classes for the different elements in a component like this, you still have to duplicate the HTML every time you want to use this component. Contributors 204 + 198 others ĭon’t panic! In this guide, you’ll learn about different strategies for reusing styles in your project, as well as best practices for when to employ each one.
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