Reclaiming the Latina Tag founder Xochilt Montaño sees selfies as “an act of resistance.”
Tumblr — like Twitter and now Facebook — uses hashtags to categorize conversations on various topics, but what Xochilt Montaño found browsing the #latina tag in late 2012 shocked and angered her.
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The Reclaiming the Latina Tag founder told BuzzFeed that when she "dared to peek at #latina on Tumblr," she was shocked to see it was "ALL porn."
"That really pushed me over the edge and made me incredibly angry so I had the idea to 'reclaim' the tag."
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Montaño sees the selfie as an "act of resistance" against stereotypes.
RTLT regularly makes calls for "Bomb the Latina Tag" sprints, where readers submit photos tagged #latina with information "anywhere from descent, memories, achievements and goals, or random thoughts."
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