Welcome to Brown Love, the show where we get real about all the things LatinX communities are talking about on your timeline.

Brought to you by Netflix and Kontodo.

I'm your host Dasha Polanco.

Each week we'll be talking to Latinos and entertainment who are making space for our communities

to see ourselves in all our complexity.

Man, women, he, she,

for a long time,

mainstream society has looked at gender as a binary.

You're either one or the other.

But a new generation is redefining the relationship to gender.

Not just challenging the stereotypes to gender.

Not just challenging the stereotypes of how men and women are supposed to look and act,

but also moving beyond the idea that male and female identities are there only two options.

What if gender exist on a spectrum?

What if it can be fluid?

In our Latino culture, we're seeing these changing attitudes reflected in the rising awareness of the term Latin X, a word that moves away from the binary Latino, Latina, in favor of the gender neutral X.

Today I'm talking to an entertainer who happily exists in this fluidity.

Drag Superstar Valentina.

The actor, singer, best known for her appearances on RuPaul's

Drag Race can now be found in AJ and the Queen and the third and final

season of La Casa de la Flores. Valentina identifies as gender non-binary, meaning

as neither exclusively masculine or feminine. I talk to Valentina about her queer journey, a strong Chicana pride, and the beauty of

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