Pa’lante

Yeah, โ€œWowโ€ sums up that performance. (โ€œPaโ€™lanteโ€ is Puerto Rican slang that means something like โ€œforward.โ€ Itโ€™s a contraction of โ€œpara adelante.โ€) We live in an age where we are supposed to be dispassionate. Reasonable. It helps neoliberalism persist is why disengagement is so emphasized. She negates all that with her performance. It is why art is important, why it is suppressed, why FOSTA exists.

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