So happy to share another specially curated batch of episodes featuring some of the inspiring women we've had on the show.

Bianca Kia originally envisioned Yo Soi Afro Latina as a sorority, a group bound together by the experience of being Afro-Latina, something that alluded her as a kid

growing up outside Detroit. Since she launched Josoi in 2017, the vision has evolved, and we talk

about what Bianca's learned from her audience, how the experience of exploring her queer identity

informed her experience of building community

around Afro Latinidad

and how she's going to know

when it is time for her passion project

to become her full-time focus.

Bianca, thank you so much for doing this.

Yes, thank you for having me.

I'm excited to be here.

Take me back to the MySpace poll that you put up as a kid growing up in Detroit.

What was the poll and what was the impetus for the poll? Okay, so I had to be like seventh or eighth grade on my space, early Y2K days. And I guess I was just curious how people

perceived me. At that time, a lot of kids in my school were having bar mitzvahs and bar mitzvahs. So they were like

celebrating their culture. And I had talked with my mom about having a kinesi, but I was 12 or 13 at the time.

So it was like years away, you know. And obviously my close friends knew I was mixed or I didn't

claim Afro-Latinidad at the time, but I just said I was mixed. So they, I thought they were aware that I was mixed or I didn't claim Afro-Latinaida at the time, but I just said I was mixed.

So I thought they were aware that I was both black and Mexican. So I put up this poll and I was

like, it had five options. I think I said, what do you think I am? What do you think I'm mixed

with? Or something like that. And I put white, Jewish, black, Latina, and then I chose

something really random. I think I put like Asian or something. And the poll was up for, I think,

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