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act of resistance

Mr. Fret used the braggadocio and performativity of the genre to make the case for inclusivity

Mr. Fret represented hope

an artistic soul, a big-hearted dreamer.”

d in the Caribbean in the mid-2000s, mixing Southern hip-hop with local sounds.

“Young gay guys or young lesbians that are looking at me now like a role model, like wow, if he did it, and he don’t care what anybody else has to say, I can do it.”

looks, makeup and designer gear, and calls himself “the reincarnation of Frida Kahlo.”

boasts

“a crisis of violence.”

Mr. Fret, 25, was riding on a motorcycle in the Santurce neighborhood at about 5:30 a.m. when he was shot twice, in the head and the hip, the police said. He was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Openly Gay Latin Trap Artist,

his talent for using us as vessels for propaganda.

Or will we note Trump’s latest nonsense only briefly and pivot to matters more consequential?

the self-consciousness I still feel when I say it to my father or brother.

I never wrote columns or newsletters about three nations that registered astounding progress against authoritarianism and poor governance in 2018, Armenia, Ethiopia and Malaysia.