I have spent much of my life trying to figure out where I fit in as a Mexican-American woman — more time than I'd like to admit, if we're being honest. For a long time, my primary aim was to prove to people that I was Mexican enough, maybe to compensate for the fact that I was experiencing less and less of the culture firsthand. When my parents divorced, I grew up with my American mother, while my brother and sister lived with my dad. I learned French in school because the Spanish classes were filled up by the time I enrolled, and I stopped going to Mexico every summer when I turned 16 and got a job. And over time I learned that a lot of people didn't think I was Latinx when they first looked at me, either because I didn't tell people I was right off the bat, or because Hollywood's scope of what a Latinx person looks like isfrustratingly narrow.But there is always music. movies. “Three years later, we're on set together playing mother and son in a TV series. It's a ‘pinch me’ moment. If I think about it too much, I'll probably start crying.” is a co-founder), with, "You are one of the strongest women I know. I was looking at my daughter (OMG, yes, I have a daughter 😳) and she has my arms and legs! My exact same strong, muscular, powerful, sensational arms and body. I don't know how I would react if she has to go through what I've gone through since I was a 15 year old and even to this day." She also recalled the criticisms herpowerful body Not only does the Decameron Project empower students to join a nationwide community of writers, but it allows them to gain national recognition from some giants of the literary world, and beyond. Comedian Chris Rock recently gave the project a shout-out on Instagram and Twitter, calling it “a great literary outlet.”