“I strip away all of those ‘Latin Lover’ clichés to get to who I truly am.”… read more

“I was always trying to push the rules as far as they could go without breaking them.”… read more

“I love including the small details of how we lived then, capturing the details of our lives that might otherwise be lost.”… read more

“Being glamorously doomed was my teenaged way of having fun with being a loser.”… read more

“The only way to create a new reality is to go back and look to see where we came from.”… read more

“Underrepresented communities often don’t get to see what joy looks like in the art that portrays them.”… read more

“Even the parts of our past we romanticize were probably more complex at the time we experienced them.”… read more

“With PTSD and dysphoria, I have been in a long-distance relationship with myself for as long as I can remember. I can’t bring everything back at once, so I try to take it one piece at a time.”… read more

“As writers and actors, they lived in this blur of illusion and reality; it was the condition of their lives.”… read more

“For me, theory has never been something that simply accounts for the world, but a form of active engagement that gives rise to other ways of inhabiting and imaging this and other worlds.”… read more