How Layleen Cubilette-Polanco’s Family, the House of Xtravaganza, and Activists Are Mourning and Organizing a Month After Her Death | Vogue

Layleen Cubilette-Polanco Xtravaganza and her siblings would still cuddle up together in their mother’s bed when they were all home in Yonkers. The last time Layleen’s older sister, Melania Brown, saw her there—about a week before Layleen, 27, was sent to New York City’s notorious Rikers Island jail in the middle of April, where she died in June—she seemed to be in dire need of family time. Continue reading.