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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…

Check out this interview with Chicana, Puerto Rican, and New Mexican Marisa Tirado on her “Selena Didn’t Know Spanish Either.”

A beautiful, meditative film, “Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe” both is and is not the typical coming-of-age story.

The Latinx House’s Raizado Festival occupied Aspen last weekend, celebrating la cultura in a town that prefers not thinking about us at all.

Known for “Jane the Virgin,” Andrea Navedo is sharing her experiences in her new self-help book and memoir, “Our Otherness Is Our Strength.” 

“It is literally impossible to be a woman,” says America Ferrera’s Gloria in “Barbie.” And that’s not the only reason she’s our hero.

QWOC Film Fest walks with the integrity that follows two decades of honoring local legacies and the struggles of the global majority.

“Cinnamon” blew me away. Channeling the Blaxploitation films of decades past, it feels dated and current in the best ways.