In the podcast Latino Perspectives, Cherrie Moraga offers insight on the importance of women participating in social movements across history. She states that women are the only entities that have the courage to talk about intimacy within the area of social justice, a subject that is incredibly sensitive but important in this field. She also clarifies how underrepresented communities are guilty of marginalizing women and not letting them express their identities in a safe space. This specific part in the podcast connected to the poem Beneath the Shadow of the Freeway by Lorna Dee Cervantes where she speaks on how patriarchal ideologies influence Latina women to feel guilty and/or cause guilt onto other women for trying to distance themselves from their culture’s traditions. Sometimes I feel like Latina women (specifically women in my family) know that this lifestyle could be very detrimental to their bodies and minds, but cannot seem to break away from the cycle. Similar to the poem, women in my family tend to shame each other for staying in unhealthy relationships especially when the man is being abusive. Instead of helping in the healing process, they make it worse by making the others feel stupid and weak. Do you think that Latina women are given the choice to follow this cycle or are they influenced into it? Is breaking this cycle really as difficult as it seems? What consequences do Latina women fear?