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Posted: 2021-10-01T15:13:47Z | Updated: 2021-10-01T15:13:47Z

Tally Dilbert is making sure Afro-Latina identity, beauty and style are acknowledged by everyone, one viral TikTok video at a time.

Dilbert, a 24-year-old Honduran visual artist based in San Antonio, Texas, posts a variety of different videos on social media: fashion hauls, museum tours and tips on how to become the next big influencer. On her Instagram, she posts photos and Reels of her outfits and hair, whether its her beautiful locs, natural Afro or her most recent ginger wig.

Of course, like every creator hoping to go viral, she keeps up with the latest memes and trends on TikTok, too. But Dilbert also uses her platform she has more than 80,000 followers and 1.5 million likes on TikTok to educate others on anti-Blackness within the Latinx community and how to combat it.

For example, in early September, she posted a video of herself with the words Colorism doesnt exist in Latin America, written in Spanish. The text on the screen then changes to say Me, sharing my experiences about how it does exist, accompanied by the popular TikTok sound You need to leave!

At the start of Latinx Heritage Month, she posted a couple of videos about how Afro-Latinos deserve more representation in the U.S., especially in the media.

My main reason was to inspire other Afro-Latina girls because I feel like we have little to no representation when it comes to media, and if there is [representation], its very limited, Dilbert said. Most of the time, people take Black women as a stereotype: that were ghetto or we dont like to do certain things. I wanted to break those stereotypes.