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Author and Latina Rebels’ founder Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez’s debut, For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color is the book I’ve been waiting for my whole life. What began as her love letter, almost a prayer, addressed to brown girls has become a 270-page book. It’s to, for, and about Latinas who have to navigate racism, sexism, and classism in all spaces, but particularly white-dominant ones.

So because of colonization, Latin America wants us all to be white, and the U.S., in their effort to include but also differentiate us in their media, have pigeon-holed the entire community into being the same shade of mestizo brown. But the reality is much more beautiful and complex.

People like to believe grief is far away. A dramatic and inevitable part of our existence to avoid talking or thinking about. It’s one of those unfortunate things people simply…

In 1993, a movie dropped that has since become a chola, Chicana, and Latinx cult classic: ‘Mi Vida Loca.’ Let’s breakdown why.

“Don’t judge a book by its cover”may work as a metaphor but with actual book covers, it’s a little more complicated.

Let’s celebrate the long, influential, and powerful relationship between Black American and Latinx communities (Black or not).

Raquel Welch has died and we should take a moment to give this Latina icon the credit, respect, and admiration that she deserves.

Season four of Netflix’s You powers its action by punishing the spoiled elite – their cruel behavior pushing audiences further to Joe’s side.

We’re talking three Latinx shows that are Latinx-centered with Latinx characters looking right back at us on the small screen.

Zión Moreno’s Luna La made the recently-canceled version of “Gossip Girl” my favorite – so let’s enjoy the two seasons we got of her!