2026-10-04 15:55 UTC
do you know what i REALLY wanted to be when i grew up? A FASHION DESIGNER.
now, anybody who knows me from when i was a child (there used to be such a person here on Mastodon, btw) knows that i would say lawyer. that’s because that’s what i was scared into saying.
you see… my mother was denied a college education by my grandfather, who wouldn’t sign the papers for her to even go to their local UPR community college, so where did my Puerto Rican mother end up after high school?…
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@blogdiva@mastodon.social 2026-10-04 16:00
mami, like hundreds of thousands of dirt poor Puerto Rican women and millions of Caribbean women, she ended up working in a sweatshop here in #nyc. my mother wasn't even paid by the hour. she didn't even get to sew whole clothes. the first sweatshop where she landed she had to piece collars together. n00bs like her were used for sewing many of the components like collars, waistbands, linings that would then be used to piece together into garments by the senior people who got paid more…