Sihanya (Right): My name's Sihanya. I identify as Mexican and first generation Mexican-American. My sexual identity isn't as important to me as my cultural identity because it's just a part of me not all of me and I don't think I should be defining myself just by one thing and it's also not something I ever really had problem with it was always just there and inherit to me. kinda like how I've always liked the color blue idk why I just do. As for my why i feel that my cultural identity being more important it's because, while it was something I was born into, its also something more intimate to me due to it being this bond and point of camaraderie that just exist when you up to a another latino in the room and go "are you Mexican if not then what?" and then after you establish that you ask "do you speak Spanish?" and then you both go eyyyy!!!! and then start mediately bonding. I'm a big animal lover I have three dogs, one bird, and an looking into getting more pets.

Loren (Left): I’m Loren, an artist trying to make it. I’m studying animation in the hopes of making it a career while also doing personal and freelancing works on the side. I’m a Mexican-American artist who can be bored half the time. Who mainly wears black but has a colorful mind. Someone who won’t get off a couch one day and stay out til 3 am the next. I think identity tells a lot about a person. Like who they are and what they want to be. Simple things can end up being what people identify you with. Whether it be your likes or your fashion. Things like that can end up being how people remember you and I think that’s why identity is important to me. Cause it makes me think how do I want to be remembered? This is the only REAL thing I’ve done to i guess “state” that I’m part of this community. I’ve attended small things or a single parade. But not a lot of people know about that and I mean that when I say NOT A LOT. I guess that’s because I haven’t really come out. So doing something like this is kind of nerve racking but at the same time it’s something that caught my eye and I wanted to do.