Nina Vázquez
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De PR. Antiracista. Feminista. Public History. Educator. Hip-hop/Reggaetón head. She/Her/Ella. Bisexual.
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Caribbean history is extremely important for contextualizing global history yet it’s very disregarded and erased in an academic realm.
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Just because you are an academic does not mean you are dismantling anything. I am sorry to break it to you. To dismantle something is a lot more than simply discussing it.
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The Caribbean has given the world so much especially in history, politics, literature, philosophy and sociology. Yet the Caribbean has been erased from most if not all conversations within these disciplines.
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**Bad Bunny en Coco Chanel**
“Tengo chavos con cojones. CHAPEAMEEE”
Carliz:
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JBalvin won an award on Blackness by using Black Caribbean music, dialect, rhythms and wardrobe. While actual Black folx who have higher streaming numbers, better lyricism, better everything and who are actually BLACK lost.
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Puerto Rican youth. Lexington Ave between E 111th St. and E 112th St., Spanish Harlem, NYC. 1975.
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Bad Bunny and Gabriela Berlingeri has my bisexual self in a headlock.
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Does the US owe Puerto Rico reparations? Yes.
Does Spain owe Puerto Rico reparations? Also yes.
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African American, Afro-Puerto Rican, Puerto Rican teenagers in the South Bronx. 1970.
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Meanwhile all the “usted” countries wanna speak our Spanish, dance like us, eat like us. Nothingggggg ever gets popular without our input or support. Caribbean countries have such a heavy influence on everything and you wanna diminish it to this? Sigh.
It is stuff like this they do which further proves all of
@bad_dominicana
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The US covered Queen Elizabeth’s funeral the whole day while dedicating 45 seconds of time to Puerto Ricans who went through a Hurricane.
The message is clear: The lives of thousands of Puerto Ricans are not as valuable as the life of 1 white person.
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Hurricanes are a problem. Yes. But when people die days, months later or people don’t have running water, hot food, can cook with clean water or have electricity for days, weeks, months on end, the problem is colonialism, racism and classism. Not a Hurricane.
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The award given to JBalvin is so multilayered that it’s painful to even digest? From his jabs towards Tego Calderón & Caribbean Blackness to his comments about Rihanna not being a “proper” woman to the in da getto vid to portraying Black men and women as animals in Perra vid
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Everyone wants to be Puerto Rican without wanting to be Puerto Rican.
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There is literally no reason for Bad Bunny to not have been invited to the Met Gala????? Like????? He’s fashionably bodied more than half of the invited artists.
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I feel like if Bad Bunny wanted to be with any white girl it should have been Dua Lipa. To me it made more sense
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The Jones Act shouldn’t be “lifted”. It should be “abolished”.
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Where’s Mr. Lombardo so I can show him how this Puerto Rican girl from the hood of Meriden got a whole Masters Degree after he told me that all I should do was get pregnant bc I’d never amount to anything when I was 17 years old.
MY DEGREE FINALLY CAME IN!
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Sources like Rem*zcla,
Mi*u, and Pero L*ke feed off stereotypes, monolithic arguments of Latinx/o/a/e identity and inaccuracies of Caribbean culture.
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Spanish speaking non-Caribbean folx will tell you every second that our Spanish isn’t real Spanish and that it sucks but suddenly suffer from memory loss once Reggaetón comes on or their country generates a Reggaetón “star”.
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Black erasure in Reggaetón music is a huge ongoing problem. Ask yourself why is Tego Calderon, Don Omar, Myke Towers, Darell, Zion y Lennox do not get as much recognition as a Karol G, Anuel, Bad Bunny, JBalvin. Their proximity to whiteness has made their path to success easier.
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Hurricane season is always full of trauma, anxiety, depression, gvt neglect & colonial violence
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The same white man who said Tego Calderón made Reggaetón “too Black” which made him feel “intimidated” wins Afro-Latinx artist…k
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Never forget how the feds told my abuelo’s wife they were coming with the oxygen tanks. They gave her a time and everything, they never showed up. 7 am the next morning, my abuelo was dead. I feel rage, hate and pain. I can’t forgive. I will NEVER forget.
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Black History Month Day 4!
Let’s talk about TEGO CALDERÓN & music.
Tego Calderon was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico in 1972 but grew up in Carolina, PR and Miami, FL. During his younger years he played percussion while being heavily influenced by his parents’ musical taste.
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The narrative of “Puerto Ricans are lazy” is a white supremacist narrative. This is not up for debate either.
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Let's talk about the Jones Act of 1917 and Reggaeton. Because what happened in Puerto Rico in 1917 does directly impact Reggaeton music. 🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵
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I am officially the Latino History Curriculum Specialist for the Connecticut Historical Society! I’ll be creating Latino History Curriculum for high schoolers across CT. 🥳 I am so excited to start this journey.
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From now on I will no longer speak Spanish instead I will be:
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The obsession of straightening curly hair in Puerto Rican culture was one of the top reasons for my lack of self-love.
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Black History Month Day 16!
Kokobalé or “cocobalé” is a tradicional martial arts with machetes (or sticks)/warrior dance while Puerto Rican bomba music plays in the background. This art came about prior to the 19th century.
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Nothing on this Earth compares to or beats a Puerto Rican Christmas
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Bad Bunny: *hizo un album con las intenciones de darle promo a Puerto Rico y al resto del Caribe*
Ustedes: *mad af*
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Hola! Puerto Rico is written PUERTO RICO.
“Porto Rico” was a violent attempt by the United States to Americanize and whiten our name.
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Black History Month Day 21!
Jean-Michel Basquiat was an artist born in 1960 in NYC. He was Puerto Rican & Haitian. Basquiat’s first rise to fame was when he was in the duo “SAMO” where they were known for their graffiti during the conception of hiphop and during the height of
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Black History Month Day 2:
Dominga de La Cruz Becerril was a Puerto Rican Nationalist, lecturer, poet and organizer born in Ponce, Puerto Rico in 1909. She then moved to Mayagüez, Puerto Rico with her grandmother. After De La Cruz ceased schooling at 4th grade, her godmother
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I mean he is the father of her children and they’ve always maintained an amicable relationship so this isn’t news….lol
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Yo amo a Puerto Rico con todo mi ser pero que cultura tan tóxica. Justificando siempre a las acciones abusivas del hombre.
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“Tell me, tell me, for who were jails created? If the rich never enters and the poor never comes out”
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I stopped identifying as Latina and just continued to identify as Caribbean and that has made me feel so much better.
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Se acuerdan cuando Residente nos dijo “LES VOY A DAR UN PERREO INTENSO” y nos dio Bellacoso….😐
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To my non-Puerto Rican Latinos & the white non-Latinos that have been stealing Puerto Rican culture: Is it fun to be Puerto Rican? You still wanna be us? Oh ok.
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Non-Puerto Ricans like talking down on Puerto Ricans especially for our lingo but then go and make tiktoks, infographics, tweets trying to explain our lingo bc it’s “cool”. Ok with your linguistic colonialism.
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BAD BUNNY ARTIST OF THE YEAR. DE PUERTO RICOOOOO PALLLLL MUNDOOOO. NAAAAA VA SER DE COLOMBIA.
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Puerto Rican nationalism is not the same as American nationalism. We need to have conversations that do not look/discuss nationalism as a one size fits all term.
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I really am having an issue with this big “Latinx” culture social media page posting a non-Puerto Rican woman explaining (INCORRECTLY) what “bebesita” and “bebesota” mean. I think it’s funny bc Bad Bunny has said time and time again that he makes music for Puerto Ricans.
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Reggaetón is Afro rhythm, Afro-diasporic, Afro-linguistic, Afro-centric. Reggaetón is Caribbean.
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Let's talk about the WAR ON DRUGS and how Puerto Rico became an experiment for that campaign. Let's also do it through music :) 🧵🧵
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Good morning, good morning. Let’s talk about some Puerto Rican revolutionaries.
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Picture from 1898 depicting Americans forcing a naked Puerto Rican young man up palm trees to fetch them cocunuts to drink. Source: McConnie Family pictures, “Once tesis sobre un crimen en 1899” by Arcadio Diaz Quiñonez.
#PuertoRico
via Phillip Arroyo
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Let’s talk about the history of Freestyle music! 🧵
Freestyle was created by Nuyoricans in the mid-1980s in Brooklyn and the Bronx. The genre really grew love and appreciation from second-generation Puerto Rican living stateside.
Pic of Lisa Lisa
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Very funny how “Reggaetón experts” put Enrique Iglesias on a REGGAETÓN list. The list didn’t even have Eddie Dee. It also had TEGO CALDERON 1 time?! And no Ñengo Flow, and Calle 13 said so many times that they were not Reggaetón to take them out of those categories so the IRONY.
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🧵October 30th, 1950 the Jayuya Uprising took place in Puerto Rico. It was led by the educator and badass, Blanca Canales. She and others came to her hometown of Jayuya with other Puerto Rican Nationalists.
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Puerto Rican islanders who move stateside experience the United States *VERY* different from Puerto Ricans born stateside.
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Puerto Rican mental/emotional struggles are inevitably tied to colonial violence.
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I think erasing the producers, innovators and inventors of the Reggaetón genre is actually mad disrespectful to degrees that I can’t even begin to phrase but my biggest problem is how you “forget” the whole soul &purpose that the genre exists? Reinforces that colonizer enegry tbh
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A family member waited until I made it back to give me a gift that they’ve been holding for me for months. A handmade flag and isn’t she beautiful? My star will never fit on the American flag. Let’s keep it like that.
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I love this bc it shows how rich white Latines live in a completely different bubble where the problems dont impact them the same way they impact poor, non-white Latines. This woman is saying all this like she hasn’t been alive during peaks of femicides in LatAm?
Shakira gives her opinion on the ‘Barbie’ movie to Allure:
“My sons absolutely hated it. They felt that it was emasculating. And I agree, to a certain extent. I'm raising two boys. I want ‘em to feel powerful too [while] respecting women. I like pop culture when it attempts to
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Black History Month Day 11!
The Mean Machine was a Hip-hop/rap group composed of Puerto Ricans who rapped in English & Spanish. Based in NYC their fan base was predominantly Black and Puerto Rican. They are considered to be the FIRST bilingual rap group and the first all
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This is your reminder that Puerto Ricans also were the co-creators of Hip-hop.
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My kiddos in the SouthEnd are mostly 1st, 2nd & 3rd generation Puerto Ricans & bc of how history in this country works, they know so little to nothing about themselves. So, I made a wall w some cool Puerto Ricans for Puerto Rican Heritage Month and my babies have been amazed 🇵🇷
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Black History Month Day 24!
Sylvia del Villard was an afro-Puerto Rican activist for Black Puerto Rican artist as an artist herself. Her senior yr in HS she was awarded a scholarship by the Puerto Rican government to attend Fisk University. At Fisk she studied anthropology and
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I can see all the academic articles X months from now: Bad Bunny’s ‘El Apagón’: Colonialism, Racism, & Displacement in Puerto Rico
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Hola, seguimos amando “Toda Remix”? Si? Okay, muy bien. Nunca superaré esa canción.
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4 yrs ago Hurricane Maria changed Puerto Rico forever&every Puerto Ricans life near&far. 4 years later we still suffer our dead, we still suffer from poor infrastructure, displacement, lack of answers, lack of response.
4,645 ppl died not 64. In those 4,645, mi abuelo
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You can be sexy/sensual and be an academic. Both can coexist. Neither have to cancel out, I promise.
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No me importan 3 pepinos si Keishla fue la “amante” alguna persona. Me IMPORTA que mataron a una mujer por el cabrón ego y reputación de un HOMBRE. No me importa un soberano pepino que ella hizo, no hizo, deshizo o se le olvidó hacer, NINGUNA MUJER MERECE SER ASESINADA.
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Bad Bunny is an interesting case because let’s be realistic, he has gotten way more airtime, respect, and props than Daddy Yankee has on US music media. Yes, Daddy Yankee is a legend (idc how you feel about him) but his fame and respect hasn’t translated the same way as Bad Bunny
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“Why do Puerto Ricans have so many non-Spanish last names”
Because 18th, 19th century Puerto Rico was an immigration hub for Italians, Chinese workers, Middle Eastern Folx and more. Some families left while others stayed.
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If I ever tweet: 🇵🇷❤️🇺🇸 I want you all to know that I was kidnapped.
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Fat Joe and Big Pun for the Puerto Rican Day Parade in NYC. 1999.
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Muchos países hablan mal de Puerto Rico pero no admiten que sus artistas musicales se joden para poder tocar en Puerto Rico porque reconocen el poder y la dominación que nuestra isla tiene en el mundo musical.
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On September 23rd, 1868 El Grito de Lares was an uprising against the Spanish gov on the island in hopes of Puerto Rican independence along w advocating for better work conditions/wages&an end to anti-Black racism&enslavement. An event that changed Puerto Rico’s history forever.
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