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HAPPY 32ND BIRTHDAY, TYLER POSEY!!!

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graves hates gay mexicans and alejandro hates gay americans so they both shoot each other 🔥gay on gay violence

Damn my Mexican ass can handle graves hating me but my American ass CANNOT handle Alejandro hating me

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I cried watching Coco, I felt very seen and it made me nostalgic for this ephemeral mexicaness that I could not have. When I talked to my parents about it, they were like “eh, it was ok.” Followed by a bunch of nitpicky complaints about it.

We all moved to the US at the same time, but of course, I was 11 and my parent were in their 30s. their Mexican identity was fully formed, but mine was not. So decades of synthesizing, and absorbing, and rejecting, and surviving American Culture have made me something else. This whole time that I've been changing and growing, and coming to terms with my internal diaspora, my parents were "Mexicans Living in the US".

I went to watch Blue Beetle with my wife and, again, felt seen, even got a little choked up talking to her about it afterward. “His family is so much like yours” she said, and I agree, but I can’t help but think that if my parents watch it they’ll focus on all the things that make them different from us; all the virgin of guadalupe stuff, all the floridian stuff, all the spanglish, and say something like “it was fine, the machine gun grandma was funny.” And nothing else.

In a lot of ways I’m jealous; My parents don’t crave representation from their media because their Mexican identity is complete and intact, because they can watch Mexican shows on cable and feel fully reflected. But I’m not from here or there, and I’m only represented when the contradiction is on screen.

Pairing: Eddie Munson x Mexican Female Reader

Summary: Eddie tries to win over your affection and use you in hopes of getting signed to your dads record company. Theres just one problem. Your situationship and a heartbreaking past that threatens to expose the darker side of you.

Warnings: 18+ for crime related themes, angst, mental illness, death and eventual smut.

Authors note: Hi 👋 this is my first fic ever. I don't know what im doing so 🤷‍♀️. We're here for a good time not a long time so just hang out and enjoy.

Prologue

"This user is a proud Mexican-American" userbox, requested by @mrsmunson1986

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I went to my university's (early)Hanukkah party today and the event itself was lively and fun but something happened as I arrived that still bothers me.

The important thing to note is that I am Mexican American, and a student receptionist for the event space that knew I was Mexican American made an offhanded comment that just blows my mind. She had originally asked me if I was Jewish, than she mentioned "but I've seen you at Latine events/organizations on campus, I've never met any Mexican Jewish person before." That in itself isn't that bad in my own opinion, but I tried to politely explain the Jews did indeed end up in Mexico through the Diaspora and there are Mexican Jewish people. I made a comment specifically about how Sephardic Jews ended up in Spain after being in Israel and from there eventually ended up in Mexico, although the Spanish largely either forcefully converted or killed a lot of the Sephardic Jewish people. She proceeded to tell me "Well that means they're not Mexican because they're invaders and we(Mexicans) are indigenous. They can't be both."

This other student is a very vocal political/social justice activist and all I could think in that moment was how could she possibly deny one's ability to be both Mexican and Jewish at the same time? Why was she so quick to want to shut down the statement that Mexican Jewish people even exist? More comments were made and I just felt so uneasy trying to finish signing in for this Hanukkah party that I had really been looking forward to and I just can't really forget the way she could so easily deny my ability to have both identities at the same time.

I suppose I will always struggle with taking pride in both cultures, as time and time again it seems to be something that non-jews can't understand as they mostly view Jews as white Ashkenazism only as well as the Pro-Palestine movement has definitely been bringing some people to believe the idea that all Jews are white and are racist through social media. The only people I can really talk to are my family and other Jewish people but this just felt like such a huge slap in the face as a convert that also struggles with feeling white-washed in Hispanic spaces due to my family living in America for 5 generations and assimilating in a lot of ways. Just venting I guess.

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