Briken Latina _verified_ Today

To feel "broken" is to feel like a counterfeit. It is the guilt of not knowing your family’s history deeply enough, the shame of correcting your parents' English while secretly erasing your own accent to fit in. It is the exhaustion of code-switching until you forget which code is actually yours.

We have to stop apologizing for the space we occupy. You are not broken because you don’t fit the mold. You are the sculptor chipping away at the old stone to create something that can hold you . briken latina

But who set that standard?