Cassandra Lopez Fradera is a communications strategy consultant, multi-genre writer, and grass-roots organizer for the decolonization of Puerto Rico with a focus on healing justice. Raised in the northeastern U.S. and Puerto Rican diaspora, her work as a writer, speaker, and strategist is centered on providing resources and strategies for healing and self-determination. Through her reporting of local news on Café con Cass, a public access television show founded in 2014, she conducts interviews with civic leaders, multidisciplinary artists, mental health specialists, and change makers in video, print, and podcast.
We are more than beaches or the white man’s imagined Guam or West Palm. We are more than sexualized stereotypes and two genders. So are our island siblings of the Antilles. In a not so distant past, we lived without borders, until colonizers enforced them versus integrated with the land and its children.
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“I can not scream for you in the world of my own silence.”
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