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Do you think Valentina was also Juliana’s first kiss? I mean, I haven’t watched the whole show but from everything I’ve gathered here and there I don’t think her life back in Texas would even allow her to hang out with friends and get the chance to explore such thing as kissing some random guys.

And another anon:

I wanted to know if you think that Val was Juliana’s first kiss ever

Heh, you guys asked this right before the Sergio stuff went down, although the the second ask was like, a week before so kudos for wondering before the show even really hinted at it, because I DO think that headcanon became a lot more likely. The way Lupe was like, how do you know, and Juls was like, how do I know? I wouldn’t necessarily say her life in Texas made it easier or harder, as we saw, it didn’t really take much actual friendship or time to escalate, but given she even needed to compare… yeah, this coulda been her first EVER kiss.

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Maca and Bárbara have been clear that the story has been written to avoid labels because of how a lot of Mexican society tries to box in queer people. Val’s comment about how she ‘doesn’t even like women, [she] likes one woman’ was just to make a point to Eva

Hmm, but I feel like by only using the word gay, they’ve already provided a sort of box themselves? I know introductory stories try to keep it simple, but I think if boys are involved in the story somehow, as they were here, then at the least, bisexuality should be mentioned, if just its existence. 

Nobody has to choose an identity, but even that’s worth having the discussion, an “I don’t know” or “I don’t want to pick”.

Too often if a character isn’t straight, they’re assumed to be gay and when the show reinforces that then that’s what the audience takes away from it. Someone can absolutely still have a history with boys and be a lesbian, but even then, not being bi is still different from defaulting to gay. 

I like that at the end Val herself said she didn’t want to pick a label, she made her own choice, but it is a choice in itself, as much as any other label. I also don’t think a totally label-less society is some kind of ideal to strive for, I don’t think it means that it all stops mattering and everyone is equal. Bigoted people don’t hate the label, they hate what people are, and that’s still going to continue.