When I first met Yara, I was taken by her ability to balance academic intelligence and a fondness for James Baldwin quotes with being the friend you text in gibberish at 1 in the morning about the Beyoncé concert you just saw (me: Disnt. Snatwganfxank! Yara: Agrktvfuen rifbrvudhf!). Yara’s seeming contradictions are what make her so singular, especially in a world where the message women and people of color tend to hear is that they can be one thing rather than possess the multitude of identities we all encapsulate. Particularly in Hollywood, which can feel like a hierarchy where girls are encouraged to see each other as competition rather than people worth getting to know, Yara has taught me that sisterhood is thicker than any of these notions. Having a friend like Yara [who plays Zoey on Black-ish] is essential to me as a girl, as an actress, and as a teenager. She has helped me so much, often with-out even knowing it. I keep a journal where I write down important things that I hear, and flipping through it now I realize most of the quotes are Yara’s. She is a wondrous witness to the world, capable of seeing the best of it as well as highlighting the parts we can make better. Yara is proof that teenagers have so much more power than we are capable of digesting and that our voices actually do change things. I am thinking less about our impact on the world at large than I am about the ways we can impact each other and make one another feel less alone.Photo: Sean ThomasY+R ON REPRESENTATIONRB: ducati mtb Watching Smith play the high schooler, you see parts of many of the Black contestants on each show, including people like ANTM cycle 5 runner-up Nik andRPDR ducati mtb presented him with something of an acting challenge. ducati mtb My family members were undocumented immigrants from the United States who settled in Mexican-owned Texas in the 1800s. And when the Mexican government tried to curb Anglo (here meaning non-Latinx white people) immigration to Texas, my ancestors and their neighbors declared war against the Mexican government. Growing up, I never heard the story that way â not in my history classes and not in my family lore. I never questioned the narrative I received: that my Anglo ancestors were on the right side of history.I still remember how reading Gloria AnzaldúaâsBorderlands/La Frontera ducati mtb
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