Starz's 'Vida' puts the spotlight on gentrification and brown queerness in Boyle Heights
LOS ANGELES - A young Latina activist glares into a camera, her stern expression revealing her anger and determination to fight a gentrification movement she fears has invaded her Eastside community.
"If they think we're going to take this occupation, this recolonization, laying down, they got another thing coming, mi gente. Como dijo Zapata, we're not ... kneeling for you," says the woman, named Mari, referring to the words of Emiliano Zapata as a leader of the peasant uprising during the Mexican Revolution.
Her main targets are two Latina sisters, Emma and Lyn, who grew up in the same neighborhood as Mari, left and returned to operate their deceased mother's bar in Boyle Heights.
