This episode is alongside my not so lil cousin Isabel, who's 16, a junior in high school and navigating the world as a teenage girl. This episode is about Moms. Mami. Tia, My mom. Her mom. When we first recorded it, we went into it with the topic someone suggested of 'Dominican moms and their old school mentality' until we realized a lot of Black + Latinx moms are exactly the same.

We talked about what it was like growing up in a household with old school mentalities and their old school ways of catering to men especially the men in our families. Keeping up with the same mentality and ways that were used to raised them, to raise us. (Although that was not going to work). Not being allowed to have the space to do what we wanted/want to because we are girls/women. Our siblings aka our brothers being treated different and most definitely bett ...