BURIED TOGETHER

Partner Lydia Cabrera

Queer Places:
525 Valencia Ave, Coral Gables, FL 33134, apartment 4
Caballero Rivero Woodlawn North, 3260 SW 8th St, Miami, FL 33135

María Teresa de Rojas (Havana, 1902–Miami, January 25, 1987) was Lydia Cabrera's companion in life and work for more than 50 years.

Cabrera and her lover and partner, historian and paleographer María Teresa de Rojas, called Titina (whom Cabrera met after Parra's death), helped restore one of Havana's most beautiful eighteenth-century residences, the Palacio Pedroso, and La Quinta San José, a colonial-era villa in suburban Marianao (a Havana suburb), owned by Maria Teresa de Rojas. With her focus on thoroughly exploring Afro-Cuban culture, Cabrera returned to Cuba in 1930. She moved to a ranch, La Quinta San Jose, located just outside the barrio Pogolotti where she conducted most her research on Afro-Cuban culture.^[6]

María Teresa de Rojas died on January 25, 1987. On September 19, 1991, Lydia Cabrera died. Both women lie now in Woodlawn Park Cemetery, at Calle Ocho and 32nd Avenue, in Miami.

Lydia Cabrera and María Teresa de Rojas at Quinta San José, Havana

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• https://incubadorista.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/para-llegar-a-lydia-cabrera.-conversaci%C3%B3n-con-isabel-castellanos.pdf
• Cuban Women Writers: Imagining a Matria M. Betancourt Springer, 30 apr 2016