# @craft_breezy on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CcHA85Sp80I
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/21727112-craft-breezy-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2022-04-09T00:07:30.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Breeze (@craft_breezy) — https://gondola.cc/craft_breezy

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I’ve never worked alongside another woman in production before. 

Like, I’ve never been a part of a brew team where I wasn’t the only person who identifies as female, let alone Latina.

I’ve had the pleasure of working alongside Maria. We’ve been training her and getting her up to speed in our department.

My main purpose was to make sure she felt included, safe, heard, supported and empowered. 

I was hesitant at first because I was worried there would be expected competition between she and I. The biases that are placed on women in any industry are pretty brutal, especially when it comes to women of color.

We’re characterized as hot headed or too emotional. Aggressive in place of assertiveness or we’re pinned against each other.

“She’s better than you” - that’s the kind of fuckery I refuse to tolerate.

Since being placed in a lead role it gave me the advantage to set the tone from the beginning between the both of us. Why? Well, it’s simple - I need to see more Latinas filling up these spaces in this industry. We belong here. We deserve to be seen. Maria belongs here. Maria deserves to be seen. 

It’s important for me to make sure she feels nothing less than empowered throughout her journey because it’s what I wish I had when I started off in this industry. I want to give her what I never had and I want to do the same for those who will come through this space after her.

Women supporting women is one thing. 

But Latinas empowering Latinas is a different vibration.

Keep going Chingona, I’ll be right here cheering you on.
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