"Barrio Television" Broke the Mold
…color and Latinos in particular (Puerto Ricans to be most precise) are new to the TV game – and that DEI practices in Hollywood function as some sort of charity…
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In "Lone Yellow Flower," Poet Erika Gill Interrogates Identity & Change
…line, “The biggest joke deity ever played on me / was putting my soul into my model body,” which speaks to Gill’s sense of confidence, fun, and humor. They continue…
"If I Go Will They Miss Me" Offers a Lyrical Project
…His father, however, struggles to see himself, period, let alone as a deity. And if we are being honest, Big Ant doesn’t exactly handle the praise well. “How beautiful was…
"The Huntress (La Cazadora)" Mythologizes Vengeance Against Juárez Femicide
…to explain that the statue on her rearview mirror is of the Goddess Diana, a fearless deity with a bow and arrow used for justice. Sánchez poignantly delivers the film’s…
Latina Rewrites Discovery in "Cleopatra’s Final Secret"
…Magna in 2005, a temple complex about thirty miles west of Alexandria dedicated to the goddess Isis, Cleopatra’s chosen deity. Many scholars believe the queen was buried somewhere in Alexandria’s…
Meet the Mujeres Behind the Latinx Storytellers Conference
…few Latina Media Co contributors). And the Latinx Storytellers Conference is doing all this while Trump is trying to eliminate DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) efforts, corporations are listening, and…
"And Just Like That"… It’s Over. And Honestly, That Tracks
…new characters of color and queer characters who were supposed to fill that void but were treated more like DEI checkboxes than people with arcs. It tried to be inclusive…
The Cost of Being Latinx in Donald Trump’s America
…voted for a xenophobic, authoritarian-in-republican-drag, idiot. Day one back on the job Donald Trump issued executive orders to end all Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs, firing countless government employees…
"If We Were a Movie" Places Black, Queer Love in the Cineplex
…fraught right now. “I think any university who is bowing down to this administration’s demands to cut DEI programs isn’t a university worth attending, and I think a lot of…
Thank you, Calvin Klein: Bad Bunny Rompe el Internet
…DEI, the needless and cruel ICE raids, the horror of watching students of color disappear from America’s campuses, and so many other ferocious assaults on ethnic and racial minorities in…