Virgencita

So we’ve been busy finding beauties and taking pictures. On our last shoot at Allan Gardens, we decided to take the opportunity to take pictures of me since I was already there and dressed. I love multi-tasking.

All photos by Vivek Shraya

I bought this Guadalupe shirt in a market on my last trip to El Salvador. I love images of her, not because I’m religious, although I was raised Catholic. Gloria Anzaldua taught me all about la Virgen and how she is the matriarch of Latin America and recontextualizes her image as an act of rebellion by the mestizo and indigenous populations against the Spanish colonizers.

Borrowed shoes from Talya because she’s Talya.

And more pants from Asos UK. Who knew Europeans understood curves and fat?