Caribeña Joy

Con Todo: Brown Love

Netflix

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

5 • 922 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Host Dascha Polanco invites Selenis Leyva (Orange is the New Black) and Julissa Calderon (Gentefied) into her living room to discuss navigating Hollywood as Afro-Latinas and Dominican-Americans in an industry that struggles to recognize all the ways of being Latino. Through laughter and tears they cover topics ranging from the importance of inclusivity and their experiences with colorism in the Latino community, to what’s new in Dominican slang. --- Clips from “Orange is the New Black” and “Gentefied” courtesy of Netflix. Selenis and Marizol Leyva’s new book “My Sister: How One Sibling's Transition Changed Us Both” comes out on March 24 on Bold Type Books. In collaboration with @ConTodoNetflix, a social community for Latino creators and fans alike to come together and celebrate their #LatinXcellence. “Brown Love” is produced for Netflix by Futuro Studios.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Brown Love.
0:05.0	The show where we get real about all the things Latinx communities are talking about on your timeline.
0:11.0	Brought to you by Netflix and Kontodo.
0:14.0	Each week we'll be talking to Latinos in Hollywood
0:16.0	who are making space for our communities to see ourselves.
0:19.0	I'm your host, Dasha Polanco. Hollywood struggles to understand Afro Latinos.
0:29.0	For years, I would go to auditions and I get asked,
0:32.0	so what are you?
0:33.1	Black or Latina?
0:35.1	Um, you mean where I'm from?
0:38.1	I'm Dominican.
0:39.5	They just didn't get it.
0:41.0	But now we're finally seeing the industry start to acknowledge all the different ways you can be Latin X.
0:47.0	And so today, for our first episode of the podcast, we're going to get deep into Afro-Laptino identity, confronting anti-blackness in our own communities,
0:56.5	and carving out space for yourself when you don't fit the quote-unquote norm.
1:00.5	I'm lucky to be joined by two of my favorite Caribbean mummies killing it in
1:04.4	Hollywood right now. Selene's Leyva from Orange is the New Black and
1:07.8	Yulisa Calederon who landed her first role on Netflix's new Latin next series
1:12.1	Hintefat.
1:14.2	We started off our conversation giving Julisa a big congratulations. Gracia. Congratulations! Thank you! How does that feel? Wow I can't even put into words. I'm still like it happened right yeah we already shot it
1:33.6	it happened julisa you're fine you're fine but no it was like it was definitely
1:37.8	I've arrived moment you know like okay I've been here I've been I've been trying I've been doing it and yeah it feels
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