I get that it massively sucks when white people speak for brown people, or dominate the conversation so that others are silenced. However, I think identity is complicated, individual, and it’s ok for people to change.
Has it occurred to you that maybe Kali Uchi or Sofia Vergara felt they had to adopt a very white aesthetic to succeed at all? That this assessment might have been bang on, because people are racist? That they might have felt uncomfortable with the “white look,” and later on felt more able to present an identity that felt more comfortable? I’m not saying that this happened, of course I don’t know. Just that it might have. White-passing Latinx people can’t win — they’re criticised for not looking white enough, and criticised for looking too white. And how shitty would it be, when you’re reaching for an identity that feels right to you, to have people saying “Hey! You’re doing Latinx wrong!”
