As the daughter of Guatemalan immigrants, Jennifer De Leon was always asked to explain where she came from. Clothes helped her find an answer.
. We had never heard these words before, even though we lived in the suburbs of Boston. Our parents had grown up in Guatemala, and they hadn’t either. When they were teenagers, they hadn’t been working at their favorite store in the mall in the hope of a discount, but plucking hot feathers off of dead chickens in a factory in Guatemala City, or cleaning children’s bottoms as a live-in nanny in Los Angeles. They both came to the U.S. looking for new lives.
My freshman year of college, a boy holding a red Solo cup full to the brim with frothy beer asked if I lived in the international dorm. When I shook my head no, he said, “Wait, where are you from?”
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