Welcome to my new fresh blog :)

Over the past few months I've been wondering if I should delete all my IG images or archive them like so many people do and start fresh. I have dozens of photos on there, out for the public, that feel like they belong in an album at home—Someone would come visit and see them on top of the table and start looking over them as I prepare coffee in the kitchen. When I come back, they'd have a ton of questions and comments, and we'd ponder over those times. 

But we don't live in an age of printing photos anymore (though I have printed a ton cuz I don't trust in the longevity of the internet), and there's something to be said about celebrating and honoring the person you once were. For me, that is a passionate young woman who had just learned about how messed up the world was and carried on too much weight, like she could fix it all on her own. Anyway, that's obviously not all of the version of me I'm speaking of, but part of it. 

I called up a friend to help me make the decision, "should I delete these photos?" "should I keep them up?" and she asked me a question that lingered for a while: "why did I want to delete my legacy?" 

Cuz you see. We don't have those printed albums anymore. In the digital world, that's been moved to the online, for all to see. And while I'm unpacking what all of that means, the immediate answer is I wanted to delete the photos because I just don't move the same way I used to when I was in my early or mid-20s. And this permanence (I guess I do have some belief the internet lasts long) of the internet can follow you, making us seem static, like we don't evolve, and not just in politics which is the controversial side of this conversation (should someone be 'cancelled' for something they said when they were not being the highest version of themselves?), but in terms of personality, past internet appearances can make a person seem like what they hold dear, what they value, and their cosmovisión (which translates to world view but here I mean a little higher than world view, I mean universal views, internal views of self, etc) can't grow. 

Anyway. I eventually decided to risk myself to that kind of boxing and keep the photos up because 1. I've been multidimensional so if people box me it's cuz they want to not cuz they see me, bloop. 2. I've always been pretty conscious about what I post online, it's just part of being a Libra. 3. to celebrate me and all that stuff I did that got me to where and who I am today. 

So, my IG is up. And I applied that same mentality to my previous blog Radical Latina, by keeping it up and having it available here where it gets hundreds of views daily. 

But, still, I've created **this** new blog. As a project just for me and as a way of feeling like I'm starting fresh, and after having shed the pen name "Radical Latina" years ago, it felt imminent. 

Welcome, hope you make yourself comfortable. Whether you're here to read up or just to snoop, that's your business as Tabitha Brown would say. Mine is to write.