2026-10-04 16:00 UTC
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…
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@blogdiva@mastodon.social 2026-10-04 16:05
so when i told mami i wanted to be a fashion designer and sew clothes; because i loved drawing things i wanted, then working with her hacking, cutting, altering the clothes she made us, SHE LOST HER FUCKING MIND she wasn't mad at me. it was more like she went into a state of panic that i had never seen her before. i had never seen mami so afraid for me. she was an incredibly gregarious woman and i grew up with an incredible amount of liberty for a girl, especially a boricua one…