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Yalitza Aparicio Is an Empowering Example of Indigenous Beauty
This February, “Roma” took home a number of Oscars, and the film marked several firsts. It is the first Oscar-winning film to feature the Mixtec language and only the 11th film in a foreign language to bring home the gold statue.
to motivate and teach children when she went to a casting call for “Roma,” and Alfonso Cauron found the star he was looking for. Of the opportunity and what it means to people like her, Aparicio says, “Certain stereotypes are being broken, that only one type of person can aspire to be in a movie or on the cover of a magazine.”
Yalitza Aparicio, star of Alfonso Cuaron’s film set in ‘70s Mexico, contributed to the film’s milestones. She is the first actress of Mixtec and Triqui descent to be nominated for an Oscar. While she didn’t take home the award for best actress, her performance garnered international praise and brought attention to her indigenous roots. In December, Aparicio was featured on the cover of Vogue Mexico and Latin America. For other women with indigenous roots, the cover was an inspiration and confirmed that representation of more diverse beauty standards is desperately needed.
The cover image of Aparicio wearing Dior with her flowing, dark hair cascading behind her reached many people who haven’t seen themselves represented in magazines or movies. As one woman wrote in response to seeing the Vogue cover, “I have never seen a woman whose skin tone and ancestral DNA matches mine grace the cover of any magazine in celebration of beauty. While we exist, we are not represented.”
Aparicio echoed and celebrated this sentiment, noting that in addition to the typical standards of beauty we see in the media, “other faces of Mexico are now being recognized. It is something that makes me happy and proud of my roots. It is for hope.”
In a video for Vogue, Aparicio speaks about her family and growing up in Mexico. As a preschool teacher, she was fulfilling her dream
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