“Oh wow, I’m 20 years old, from San Antonio. My grandparents are Mexican immigrants that live in Corpus Christi, near where she died. I always heard about her growing up. When I was young I would sway my hips to her music, knowing only a fourth of the words, feeling a kind of deep deep joy and freeness that would overcome me from listening to her songs with my primas or my older great tias. We’d laugh and sing, but deep down, we could feel the tragedy that followed her wherever she went. I moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania last year for college, and I did not realize how engrained Selena is in the fabric of my being. I didn’t even realize what being a Chicana feels like in comparison to the United States. It’s like we are in our own little bubble, experiencing the same food, language, music, and even the code switching with relatives and older men that you described so eloquently in this episode. Anyways, this podcast is one of the first podcasts that have truly made me feel seen.. but most of all.. proud. Proud of who we are, and proud of the soul Selena has left in us.”
Icejake via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
01/19/21