OOOOH big same re: spiderverse. ESPECIALLY for afrolatines. I felt like the first time around people were a little too dismissive of Miles's Latino roots ( for example i remember when there were first talks of a Blue Beetle movie a few years back, ppl were like "FINALLY a Latino superhero" as if Miles wasn't RIGHT there and it rubbed my the wrong way.) were, and with how rampant anti blackness is in Latin America I think it's huge to have a character like Miles, a 1st gen kid who struggles with Spanish but that doesn't make him any less Latino!!!
ʚ｡ﾟ☁︎｡ɞ｡ oh my god YES!!!!! him being biracial is important as it is, but astv choosing to put an african-american latino as the focus and giving that such POSITIVE representation is groundbreaking and i hope it sets a precedent that should have been around a looooong time ago (this is not to dismiss astv, only to CELEBRATE that finally. these people get it and they DELIVER)
as a latina myself, though i am not puerto rican, seeing rio represent my culture MORE in the sequel made me cry in theaters. the bendiciones and hug in that one scene broke me, because it's EXACTLY how we are here with family. it was so heartwarming and to KNOW that rio's voice actor, luna lauren velez PUSHED for it and wanted audiences to see a gesture of love that's so universal in the latino community, has forever changed me.