This year’s Latinx Heritage
Month emphasized unity and
diversity
within
the
Latinx
community
through
music,
which was celebrated virtually
at the University from mid-
September until Tuesday.
Javier
Solorzano
Parada,
program
manager
of
Multi-
Ethnic Student Affairs, was one
of the heads of Latinx Heritage
Month. Solorzano said the ability
to invite multiple speakers from
outside of Michigan to the remote
event made LHM particularly
engaging.
“It
was
powerful
hearing
people say ‘hello’ from a different
state, something that we weren’t
able to see during programming
before,” Solorzano said. “I’ve
seen momentum and engagement
continue throughout the whole
month because we were able
to have different speakers at
different points in the month,
whereas in other years, we
focused on our large events, the
opening and closing ceremonies.”
Solorzano said events that
took place highlighted a range
of topics, including imposter
syndrome, generational trauma,
anti-Blackness and more. Faculty,
staff and students participated in
planning LHM.
Public Policy graduate student
Baltazar Hernández, member
of the programming committee,
said
the
committee
focused
including diverse voices within
the Latinx community.
“One challenge was figuring
out
what
Latinx
Heritage
Month looks like in a virtual
environment
and
we
were
grappling with how to celebrate
the diverse cultures within the
Latinx umbrella so we wanted
to incorporate as many different
voices as we could,” Hernández
said.
The Afro Latinx community
was highlighted during this
year’s LHM through the logo
and music. Sizzle Fantastic, a
DJ and curator of Cumbiatón,
a nationwide party that pays
homage to the Afro Latinx
culture, played at the opening
ceremony.
“We
really
wanted
to
emphasize Afro Latinx identity
and specifically through music,”
Hernández said. “We’re trying to
build a mosaic of different stories
that these instruments (in the
logo) tell and how diverse our
narratives are as people from a
larger region.”
Business junior Alex Jimenez
was on the marketing committee
for LHM and strategized the
promotion of events.
“We’ve had to be very flexible
and
instead
of
promoting
different groups’ events before
the programming for LHM even
starts, we promote as much as
we can during LHM for the days
preceding each event,” Jimenez
said.
LSA junior Ximena Mancilla,
who was the undergraduate
coordinator
for
LHM,
said
cybersecurity issues prompted
the LHM team to utilize the
webinar feature on Zoom rather
than
the
traditional
format
where participants can see each
other.
One in-person aspect of the
programming
was
the
safe
distribution of “movie bags”
to students on campus for the
virtual Netflix parties put on
every Saturday during LHM.
Mancilla said the committee
gave students popcorn, candy
and jarritos, a popular fruit-
flavored soda, for people to
snack on during watch parties of
movies like Spiderman: Into the
Spider-verse and the TV show
Gente-fied.
“Celebrating our culture does
not stop after this month, we still
have so much more to do and
every day we should be proud of
who we are because we deserve
to be here at the University of
Michigan no matter what anyone
says,” Mancilla said. “I want
everyone to keep being proud
of where they come from: their
family, roots and traditions.”
Events like LHM are especially
important
at
predominantly
white institutions because they
can shed light on the difficulties
of being a person of color in these
spaces, according to Jimenez,
who also noted the exclusion of
opinions of people of color in the
implementation of the Michigan
Ambassadors program.
Jimenez said voting in the
upcoming presidential election
can amplify Latinx voices.
“Latinx voter turnout could
determine
this
election
and
I really hope things turn out
for the best,” Jimenez said.
“There have been a few speakers
who have talked about the
importance of voter turnout.
Even at our opening ceremony,
we had a Kahoot where one of
the questions asked how many
Latinx people would be eligible
to vote this year … I think it’s just
small stuff like that that puts it
into peoples’ heads.”
Solorzano said he hopes LHM
will continue to be a way to learn
about other peoples’ experiences
and to share the Latinx identity
with the campus community.
“We are all navigating through
very difficult times and with this
pandemic, we are all viewing
things through very different
lenses,” Solorzano said. “For me
it’s so great to hear committee
members
and
community
members excited about events
happening on campus … that
excitement and that celebration
is something that I think creates
many
strong
memories
for
students who are joining us,
especially first-year students.”
Mancilla highlighted the need
to focus on embracing the Latinx
identity.
“We belong here and have
worked so hard to be here,”
Mancilla said. “We continue to
fight for this equality, but also we
don’t want to sweat it too much
because we know our worth
and don’t want our parents’ and
families’ sacrifice to go in vain.”
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“Legally,
I
cannot
really
enforce
that,”
Porikos
said.
“Legally the only thing I can do
is (say) ‘Listen, if you don’t listen
to me, nobody comes in ... Last
week and the weekend before
I came to the point where I tell
my managers — because I have
more than one place — ‘Hey, if
they don’t listen, we’re going to
be here for the long run, just lock
it up.’ Instead of 2 o’clock we’ll
close like 12:15 to 12:20. So by
doing that hopefully, we’ll get to
the point where they’ll comply a
little bit more.”
Porikos said it is difficult to
determine where the cases came
from or where the virus may have
spread within his restaurant,
particularly due to the number of
students moving from bar to bar
around town.
“Especially
on
South
U,
there’s no way that I’m going to
go to Rick’s and stay there for
hours and not go to another bar,”
Porikos said. “There’s no way I’m
going to go to Blue Leprechaun
and not going to go to Brown
Jug. There are students walking
around. It would be sad for me
to say, ‘This is the place.’ I don’t
blame the victim, but it seems
to me that I’m doing pretty good
with one third of the capacity, my
employees are happy, I believe
customers are happy, that’s why
they keep coming. So I really
cannot tell you.”
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