When Aisha Cort walks into a convenience store with her rich brown skin and tiny dark locs, she knows she has the power to cause confusion by speaking Spanish.

The term Afro-Latina—or Afro-Latinx, a more recent adaptation of the phrase Latino for anyone who chooses to remove gender binaries from their identity—is used to describe descendants of Latin America with African roots.

But for many, the unifying experience comes from their visible Blackness.

They're getting more comfortable wearing their hair how it looks naturally.”

Like how could you even question my identity?