Rosario Dawson is featured on the comic book cover, as a protester, with the first Afro-Latina superhero, La Borinquena as a commemoration of the 125th anniversary of the Puerto Rican flag.
What We Know:
- Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez is a philanthropist, activist and graphic novelist that shared the cover of his third issue of his graphic novel series La Borinquena.
- The cover art was drawn by artist Ana Teresa Rivera Fuentes as her comic book cover debut.
- The cover sketch depicts La Borinquena hovering over a group of protesters.
- When Rosario shared the cover on social media, she acknowledged the faces of her Latinx peers, like Bad Bunny and Ricky Martin, that share the cover along with her.
Pre-order our 125th Anniversary of the 🇵🇷 Puerto Rican flag variant @LaBorinquena_GN cover! Recognize any faces in the crowd? Order now at https://t.co/kwuoTsEVvR pic.twitter.com/dpf1a61spx
— Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez 🇵🇷 La Borinqueña (@MrEdgardoNYC) April 15, 2020
- Miranda-Rodriguez strategically tied the release of the La Borinquena cover to a charitable cause.
- The independently published author has a goal to raise funds to purchase and ship FDA-certified KN95 masks to healthcare workers across the US and Puerto Rico.
- In partnership with Mask for America, Miranda-Rodriguez created a digital fundraising campaign on GoFundMe with a $250,000 goal.
- The campain has already gotten hefty donations from the Be A Hero organization and ActBlue.
- According to the campaign’s page, they have “found and partnered with an FDA-certified manufacturer selling N95 equivalent masks at only $2/mask- a fraction of what hospitals and governments have been paying for N95 masks”.
They have already donated 34,000 masks to healthcare workers throughout New York City. 6,000 masks have been shipped to Puerto Rico to be distributed by their Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz.
