A Love Letter to Selena Quintanilla
…the Selena Quintanilla museum There’s a part in the movie where Selena visits Mexico as an artist for the first time, a very big deal for her career. She feared…
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Annenberg’s Most Inclusive Latinx Series Are All Canceled
…Selena Gomez’s Only Murders in the Building, with its 8.6 ranking, is the first Latina-led show to score three (and counting seasons) although, it doesn’t break the top third of…
4 Latin Literature Classics as Valentine's Day Books
…De la Garza ranch. Tita has been forbidden to marry; instead, the young girl must care for her tyrannical mother, Mamá Elena, until her death. Tita, however, falls in love…
"Selena & Yolanda" Deserves the Outrage
…straight?,” djlostone posted on Tik Tok. “The record is Selena Quintanilla is gone, and it’s all your fault.” https://www.tiktok.com/@hollyweirdparanormal/video/7332266292608617770 “This woman tries, tries so hard to be relevant. Selena has…
Klaudia Reynicke’s “Reinas” Re-Writes the Immigration Movie
…Lucia (Abril Gjurinovic) and 14-year-old Aurora (Luana Vega) as their mother Elena (Jimena Lindo) prepares for the three of them to immigrate from the militarized Peru of the 90s to…
Alex Russo is a (Bisexual, Latina) Icon
…After That’s So Raven ended in 2007, Selena Gomez took on the role of Alex Russo — the only ethnic heroine on a Disney sitcom for much of the decade….
NALIP & Organizing Latinx Power in Hollywood for 25 Years
…icons. And out of the phenomena that was Selena, came NALIP. After all, there could only ever have been one Selena Quintanilla but there should be lots more Selena’s. “How…
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…Ashley Rivera Mercado Becca Beberaggi Brenda Gonzalez Brittany Menjivar Carolina Alvarado Cat Sposato Ces Heredia Christy Leos Cristina Escobar Cynthia Via Damaly Gonzalez DarkSkyLady Denise Zubizarreta Edgary Rodríguez R. Elena…
5 Fall Latinx Books to Have on Your Radar
…you get past the pretty, cheery cover, you’ll find a middle-grade novel-in-verse about Selena, a Chicana girl who doesn’t want to choose between embracing her Mexican and American identities (and…
Two Iconic Latina Directors to Celebrate: Patricia Cardoso and Patricia Riggen
Selena, La Bamba, and just about any Edward James Olmos film are highly regarded by the Latinx community for being the trailblazing classics they are. Having set the standard for…