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Bonus: Carribean Fragoza on Writing “The Vicious Ladies”

Bonus: Carribean Fragoza on Writing “The Vicious Ladies”

FromParty Crews: The Untold Story


Bonus: Carribean Fragoza on Writing “The Vicious Ladies”

FromParty Crews: The Untold Story

ratings:
Length:
26 minutes
Released:
Mar 21, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Carribean Fragoza is a writer, artist and co-founder of the South El Monte Arts Posse. She writes about Latinx women and girls whose narratives aren’t always portrayed in the mainstream. In 2014, she wrote a short story for Bomb Magazine titled “The Vicious Ladies'' — inspired by the news coverage surrounding Emmery Muñoz’s real-life party crew following her murder. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Released:
Mar 21, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (10)

For many Latinx kids in the ‘00s, the party crew scene was a safe space to express themselves as they came of age in the grit and glitter of Los Angeles. A space to make friends, forget about your problems and dance the night away. But the scene wasn’t always physically safe. There were shootings and police raids. Many adults saw the scene as gang-adjacent and the media fueled negative stereotypes of kids who were out of control. One of the teens who got caught in that easy narrative was Emmery Muñoz, after she was murdered in 2006. Host Janice Llamoca goes on a Y2K-filled journey back in time to her own party crew days to find out what this scene meant for teens like her and Emmery, and why – to this day – Emmery’s case remains unsolved. From iHeart, VICE, and LAist Studios in partnership with My Cultura Podcast Network