We recently had the chance to connect with Regina Gomez and have shared our conversation below.
Hi Regina, thank you so much for taking time out of your busy day to share your story, experiences and insights with our readers. Let’s jump right in with an interesting one: What are you being called to do now, that you may have been afraid of before?
Since our last interview, a lot has happened. I’ve become a mother and I’ve also lost some pretty significant people in my life. I lost both parents to cancer within the past 3 years. Also, being born and raised in Los Angeles and a being a proud Angeleno, the current state of my city weighs heavy on my heart. I am being called to do a lot right now. I feel like I am being called -at this very moment- to create a family legacy and continue on where my parents left off. I feel like I have their ancestral strength on my shoulders to go out into the world and decolonize and reconstruct the things that held our bloodline back in the past. In doing that I can do something else I feel I am being called to do right now and that is to help heal and protect my community and beloved city by creating art and spreading cultural awareness. As individuals and as a city we need to focus on our future. I get the opportunity to do that as a mother. It is my calling to teach my daughter to not be afraid of speaking up for herself and others, and to love all people, without prejudice, so that we do not repeat what is happening right now, EVER again.
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
I am Regina Gomez, sometimes Regina Stone or Gina Rock. My uncle gave me the nickname Gina Rock when I was 5 because he said I was solid, strong and heavy like a rock. I am Marina’s mama. Aside from banging in the motherhood I am a writer, filmmaker, baker and ass shaker. I really do all of those things in real life for a living. Some say I have a lot of different jobs but I have a lot of passion and it comes out in all of those art forms. I recently dropped a poetry project, a short film is currently in the works. I’ve also been running a small baking/cooking business out of my kitchen for the past 7 years.. I bake a lot of cakes. I also shake a lot of cake. I have an onlyfans and you can subscribe to and see dances and all that other stuff. I dance and use my tip money to make art. Thats how I am making my film. With onlyfans money.
Okay, so here’s a deep one: What was your earliest memory of feeling powerful?
I felt most powerful when I was 8 years old sitting alone in the corner with a pen and notebook creating “yearbook people.” I created a whole school of people and they all had stories. I would draw them in the notebook and tell their stories. I also used to read the Thomas Guides at my grandparents house and make “map people.” I create stories based off whatever city map I was on. It was all a great escape from all the chaos of child abuse and drug addicted parents that was living in. If I was in my corner with my books nobody could hurt me. It also was my intro into the creative world and shaped my creative process. It’s still my greatest power to be off in a corner with my books.
When you were sad or scared as a child, what helped?
Making death stories about the people who made me sad. I would make poems about my mean uncle or the kid who called me fat in elementary. I was writing diss poems and stories about shitty people since the 90’s.
Sure, so let’s go deeper into your values and how you think. Is the public version of you the real you?
Nope. People see me with a loud pen online and try to approach me in person that loud and it doesn’t go well. I am quiet and reserved for the most part. I can go days with no words. Now that’s impossible as a parent. I miss the quiet days but I love my daughter’s imagination and her innocence. She’s teaching me how to be more extroverted because naturally I am an introvert.
Thank you so much for all of your openness so far. Maybe we can close with a future oriented question. What is the story you hope people tell about you when you’re gone?
That my heart was just as big as my a** and talk about how I showed heart. There are a lot of stories. I just hope people talk about me when I am gone. If they don’t I’ll haunt them.
Contact Info:
- Instagram: @gina_rok
- Other: https://onlyfans.com/ginarockkk
Image Credits
Regina Gomez, Adam Lemnah
