Jillian Mercado on Latinx Culture & Metaverse Fashion
Jillian Mercado on Being a Voice For the Latinx and Disability Communities
![One critical element of hanging out in the metaverse is, of course, selecting an avatar that reflects both your personality and your sense of style. "Personally, I wanted to create my avatar as close [to how] I see myself," Mercado shares. "Since I was celebrating myself as a Latina, I wanted to go with a mix of New York and Caribbean — something I would actually wear in the summertime."
Flexing creativity when building your avatar is a way of showing off "your individuality however you see yourself," she adds.](https://media1.popsugar-assets.com/files/thumbor/5scWjqI7wHC5zR4POErz9ylCDTY/fit-in/1024x1024/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-/2022/12/20/036/n/1922564/0405c03ae5337696_2022-10-05_12-16-24.00_03_23_51.Still004/i/One-critical-element-hanging-out-in-metaverse-is-course.png "One critical element of hanging out in the metaverse is, of course, selecting an avatar that reflects both your personality and your sense of style. \"Personally, I wanted to create my avatar as close [to how] I see myself,\" Mercado shares. \"Since I was celebrating myself as a Latina, I wanted to go with a mix of New York and Caribbean — something I would actually wear in the summertime.\"
Flexing creativity when building your avatar is a way of showing off \"your individuality however you see yourself,\" she adds.")
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