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Who Is Paradise For? A Conversation with Multimedia Artist Jo Cosme
Artist Jo Cosme grew up being told Puerto Rico was paradise. Her work asks who that story actually belongs to. Yolanda Cosme grew up in Borikén, the indigenous name for the island the Spanish renamed Puerto Rico, absorbing a story about herself that wasn't hers. It was the story colonialism tells: that North Americans are more educated, more intellectual, more worthy. That to be from the Caribbean is to be lesser. "We grew up with this shame of being savages," she says. "Tha
3 days ago6 min read
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