Latinx customs, rituals and traditions have withstood countless transformations through their assimilation to the US and back, and the undocumented history of quinceañera practice–a journey I hold quite close to me–is still just one of the many deprived of proper accreditation.
Read more@Latinx_Diaspora_Archives: Family Photographs as Counter-Narratives of the Latinx Diaspora
”As my family migrated and many others from the Diaspora did too, the camera was a way to document this broken American Dream narrative, instead, we needed to create a counter-narrative of our people, because we are not seen as American.”
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