Every piece of media makes an argument about who we are, and to interact with it means to internalize, consciously or not, the assumptions it carries. For Caribbean and Afro-Latinx communities, the stakes of these arguments run deep. Music, television, and film now ricochet across the globe at light speed, and with that reach comes a paradox: the pressure to include “diverse” characters often lands in the hands of creators who haven’t done the homework. The result? Representa

Alejandro Heredia offers something far more valuable: the messy, beautiful truth of lives lived between languages, cultures, and identities