That’s why I bristle at all the demands that I vote being made as the election cycle spirals ever downward. But something bigger has always struck me about the hollowness of those demands, about the soullessness of the get-out-the-vote efforts that characterize these cycles. What if the reason these requests feel so empty is because the people making them don’t really want us to vote? more than 100 people die from gun violence and more than 230 are shot and wounded, For the first time in my life, I understood my identity was measured by its proximity to whiteness, as that was the definition of mainstream and “acceptable.” The shame of being different, of having fundamental parts of your identity be something you have to explain, was something I carried with me as I adopted an American accent and learned to play softball. Betty isn't the only person with whom Veronica will find common ground; she and her mother, Hermione Lodge, are left to navigate Hermione's hometown of Riverdale together — along with ever-faithful butler Smithers, of course. For Camila, the scenes she shot with Marisol Nichols, who plays her mother, were some of the most fulfilling. "That's my favorite part of the show, honestly," she says of the dynamic. She adds that the Lodge women are "going through a really tough time, and they're doing it together. At times, they team up together and realize things together, and then at other times, they start to branch off and they're on completely different pages. Veronica's rebelling, and defying her mother, or disagreeing with her, betraying her, turning away from her. It's a very rocky relationship, and it's full of passion."