Fashion has always been political.

For Latinas, migrants, and undocumented communities, hair and clothing have never been neutral. They’ve been judged, criminalized, surveilled, used to decide who belongs, who is welcomed, and who is forced to disappear.

Braids and moños have carried meaning long before they were aestheticized. They’ve held memory, resistance, care, and survival. They’ve been read as defiance when worn by the wrong bodies, in the wrong spaces, at the wrong time.

Ponte Your Moños was born from that reality.

It emerged in a moment when fear became part of everyday life, when showing up visibly felt risky, and silence felt heavier than speaking out. What began as an instinct to protect, to gather, and to respond grew into a collective movement rooted in solidarity, not trends.

Founded by Dulce Flores and Angie Portillo, two women with different migration stories, Ponte Your Moños exists from an understanding that allyship is not about leading every conversation, but about creating space, listening deeply, and showing up with responsibility. This movement is shaped by U.S.-born Latina voices, undocumented experiences, and migrant allies who refuse to look away.

We reclaim braids and moños not as fashion statements, but as cultural records, history carried on the body. What we wear becomes language. Presence becomes protest. Care becomes collective.

Ponte Your Moños is built by community voices and held by many stories.
It exists to show up visibly, responsibly, and together.

Because fashion isn’t decoration.
It’s a record of who was allowed to exist, and who had to fight to be seen.