Valerie Fleisher, 40, a resistance organizer, toldTeen Vogue In the last four years, I have become one of the thousands of Puerto Ricans who have decided to ‘brincar el charco’, a phrase that roughly translates “to jump the puddle” from the island to the mainland of the United States — or, as President Donald Trump, would call it“water, big water, ocean water” “It just feels like it’s more than music now at this point … it just gets loud sometimes,” Taylor says through tears inMiss AmericanaShe lets fans and critics in onher past battle with food The way that I have been raised to think about leadership in the community has been that essentially we are all in a circle, and no one role is more important than any other role and when called upon you step into the circle. [You] do good for your people, and then when you're done you step back out so someone else can step in.