<p>Something unique is joining the floats during this weekend’s Puerto Rican People’s Day Parade: eight massive sculptures, made up of nearly seven-foot-tall letters, will spell out the Spanish word for “dignity” on the back of a flatbed trailer. The name of the piece is “<a class="Link" href="https://floatingmuseum.org/DIGNIDAD" target="_blank" ><u>DIGNIDAD</u></a>.”</p><p>As the truck rolls down West Division Street alongside musicians and dancers on Saturday in Humboldt Park, artist <a class="Link" href="https://ivanargote.com/" target="_blank" ><u>Iván Argote</u></a> and curator <a class="Link" href="https://mcachicago.org/about/who-we-are/people/carla-acevedo-yates" target="_blank" ><u>Carla Acevedo-Yates</u></a> hope the simple message resonates, especially with it being in a language other than English.</p><p>“Speaking Spanish right now in the United States can be dangerous,” Acevedo-Yates said. “We need to treat each other with dignity regardless of our documentation statuses, regardless of our nationality, regardless of our identity, our gender identity.