updated yesterday’s post about the coming Feb17 protests in Washington DC with videos about how during 2019, Puerto Ricans banged on pots and pans, every night at 7pm, to keep the protests going for almost a month:
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/113989185885733130
i do urge you to read the NYTimes article of some the more creative forms of protest we had during that summer. they don’t include all the pics of us protesting around the world, nor all the billboards and graffiti…
the point of all of this is that, people were protesting and expressing their discontent from where they were.
it was protest at all times, everywhere, anywhere by everybody.
THE 2019 #RickyRenuncia PROTESTS IS WHAT MEETING PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE LOOKS LIKE.
and that means EVERYBODY.
there were no respectability politics to be had. every day, en la calle San Juan, the one bordering La Fortaleza, a perreo ―La Isla’s answer to twerking― would take place in protest:
https://youtu.be/cFVMBjL8vUk
Jorge Rivera Nieves is the very definition of journalism in Puerto Rico. he became famous covering the infimous entrapment and lynching case we know as El Caso Maravilla.
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/112796743405775115
el perreo i just posted is a remix of him saying, “El perreo intenso acaba de comenzar” (the intense perreo/twerking has started) during the newscast he used to anchor (he retired recently).
Rivera Nieves didn’t have to editorialize when he validated el perreo as a form of protest…
for the straight-laced normies in the back,
perreo isn’t just twerking. it is done with the least amount of clothing you can get away with.
perreos en Puerto Rico are off shoots of vogueing, so the mix of people you find in a perreo are mostly LGBTQI folks. these are trans-inclusive, sex-worker inclusive, public spaces carved out by way beyond dirty and truly indecent dancing.
THIS IS WHAT MEETING PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE MEANS.
and it’s why #RickyRenuncia was successful.
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦