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I am the makeup Mariachi and I offer representation for queer Brown
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trans fat fem people with my image and existence.
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I'm telling queer brown kids and adults alike that not only do
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people like me exist,
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but we deserve to be seen and celebrated.
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I started playing Mariachi when I was in high school,
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begrudgingly. I hated Mexican music at the time.
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But after that first class,
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I was hooked, Mariachi was so different to me.
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After that day, I understood the simple complexities of the harmonies
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and the traditional songs that my parents would sing at parties.
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I was literally studying the sounds of my culture.
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Now today I stand before you a confident gigging mariachi musician.
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And yes, I wear a full face of makeup because that
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is how I feel the most authentic doing drag.
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Really opened my eyes to just the realities of gender and how
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we see gender in society because then I would ask myself like
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what is so feminine about a skirt or like why is
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a flat chest masculine?
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It's just questioning everything about gender that I knew and then playing
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with it. That's what doing drag did for me.
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It's the gift that I give to the world.
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But first and foremost,
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it's the gift I give to myself.
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Makeup is really how I came to the realization that I'm gender
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fluid. Once I realized that I feel like I could relax
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a little bit more into existence.
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You know, the thing that I was most worried about with
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recognizing my worth and my growth was that I would turn into
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But one thing I learned though throughout my journeys of self worth
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and value is that sometimes you've got to be a diva.
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Sometimes you've got to let a bitch know that she don't see
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the value standing right in front of her and they're not always
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That's ok. You just got to pack your bags,
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move it along because life is too short to be spending time
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in a place that doesn't see your worth,
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your value. And more importantly your potential hola baby,
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a cheese. It's the make of mariachi idio soy.
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