Playwrighting allows me to channel my creativity to challenge social conventions that perpetuate various systems of oppression. I write stories that center mixed-race characters. I write stories of Puerto Ricans, a mixed-race people: Indigenous, African, and European. I write stories of women of color or those whose very existence is the embodiment of intersectionality. This is not to explore identity for identity sake, but rather, to complicate our too often “skin deep” understanding of what divides us as a people. A mixed-race experience, for example, can dismantle the ideology of race pertaining to blood quantum or inherent qualities. It can show how race is a social construct, and thereby make visible the true structures of racism. In privileging such a perspective, I believe we can disrupt many of the imaginary, yet real boarders that tend to block empathy and unity.