A Love Letter to Selena Quintanilla
…Texas, but then moved with her family to be closer to the Tejano music scene when she was still a child. For most of her life, Selena lived in Corpus…
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Media Still Prefers Hypersexualized Latinas – Especially in Miami
…wearing tight clothes and heavy makeup. Although Sofia Vergara had many acting roles, it was her portrayal of Gloria Prichett in the ABC hit Modern Family that made her a…
“AlRawabi School for Girls” Gives Us Non-Western Empowered Girls
…face harsher consequences for making mistakes, challenging norms, or simply wanting to be heard. Teen girls are expected to keep family secrets, and they may witness abuse at home that…
The LATAM-US Divide on Who is “Latina”
…On Twitter, the argument goes that if you weren’t born in Latin America, you are not Latin American. It’s nonsensical to assume that solely because a family has relocated elsewhere,…
Annenberg’s Most Inclusive Latinx Series Are All Canceled
…Annenberg Inclusion Initiative. The Spanglish series created by Linda Yvette Chavez and Marvin Lemus follows three Mexican-American cousins struggling to balance the American dream, their identities, and the family’s restaurant…
Lío Mehiel is Just Getting Started
…navigating family estrangement, encounters with an ex, and a series of unfortunate events over the course of one day. A year later, the movie Mehiel co-stars in along with Calle…
Decoding the Feminine Power in “Feud: Capote vs. the Swans”
…small group of women. Babe Paley, a former Vogue fashion editor; C.Z. Guest, a fashion icon who married into the wealthy Churchill/Guest family; Slim Keith, who married film director Howard…
Q+A With Alyssa Reynoso-Morris, Author of "Plátanos Are Love"
…something. I want my readers to know that they matter, their culture matters, the food they eat matters, their experiences matter, their family loves them and cares about them, and…
"Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird" is an Ode to Friendship
…the death of some friends and family, band reunions, and everything in between. To obtain this type of access, Davies first had to gain Rodríguez-López and Bixler-Zavala’s confidence. Director Nicolas…
Uncomfortable, Intimate SXSW Film “Malta” Portrays a Different Colombian Experience
…at the SXSW Film Festival. Malta gets uncomfortably close to Piñares’ Mariana, a young woman dreaming of escaping her toxic family and in an act of rebellion, traveling to the…