Rebecca lane biography

Eunice Rebeca Vargas (Rebecca Lane) was born in Guatemala City in amid civil war.

A lot. The feminist activist-turned hip-hop sensation is uncompromising in her lyrical critique of her homeland. A homeland plagued by war, government repression and gender-based violence. But utilizing her musical platform to put on blast these social ills has cost her. Right now, social activist, journalists are being threatened and they are being exiled.

But her rap career was one that happened by accident, and one born of struggle, survival and healing. As the civil war raged, Lane was born in Guatemala City in To nourish this consciousness, her parents—in secret—let her read banned books and played music censored by the government.

Lane was born in , just after Guatemala's long civil war had reached a genocidal boiling point.

When peace agreements were finally reached in , the year-old Lane was confused as to why so many in her family shed tears. It took a moment to fully comprehend the totality of the event. In her 20s, she realized what it meant to be a woman, especially in activist circles. To be taken seriously by her male peers, she brawled with police in the street.

But she grew tired of the performance, and fearful that a similar fate of being disappeared would befall her, Lane stepped aside from activism. And for me it was really beautiful. It was not through books or through the university, it was not through theory. It was experienced.