1-07. Dating as a Latina, Immigration & Identity with Ismelka Gomez

It’s the last episode of 2022! In the intro, Norma reflects on personal highs and lows from the year, the recent Lensa craze/controversy, and the idea of holding an aspirin between your knees (aguanta la aspirina = “keep your legs closed”). Then, Norma talks with Ismelka Gomez, host of El Patio Podcast, who has a background in cultural anthropology, arts, and fashion. Ismelka shares her experience immigrating to the US from the Dominican Republic in high school, and the new identities now attached to her. Norma and Ismelka discuss the some of the complexities of Latino identities, purity + machismo culture within the Latino community and the personal and far-reaching effects, the impact of immigration status on domestic violence, and dating as Latinas. They get into activism in Latin America (and how fashion is used in protests), including within their own home countries – Ismelka explains the recent protests in DR, and Norma gets into Cuba’s recent protests, and they both share their families’ stories facing persecution in their fight for a better future. 

 

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Article referenced: "'Magic Avatar' App Lensa Generated Nudes from my Childhood Photos" Olivia Snow

https://www.wired.com/story/lensa-artificial-intelligence-csem/