"female friendships"

All of these characters deserved more hype this year, and I hope you decide to meet a few yourself. From drama leads, to sarcastic queens, here’s a list of some of my favorite female characters from new shows in 2021.

Over the years, I’ve noticed television shows being the place where female friendship has flourished on screen. There has been a liberation of new topics and taboos that weren’t ever shown before, giving us more room for representation, and new role models to aspire and relate to.

Stories about people who’ve lived through war are often one-dimensional but ‘Derry Girls’ portrays a much more complicated truth.

Euphoria’s two Latina characters, Maddy and Kat, offer more fuel to the backlash fire, deepening rather than undercutting Latina stereotypes.

First of all, ‘Sylvie’s Love’ is good. This Tessa Thompson-led picture matches its beauty with a sweet, simmering love story and smart social commentary.

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

In Venezuela in 1993, I received a gift that would change my life – a copy of La Casa de Los Espíritus by Isabel Allende. I devoured the thick book…

Dominican and Caribbean-American author Naima Coster is unafraid to tell extraordinary stories about ordinary families, especially the women that lead them. Her sophomore novel “What’s Mine and Yours” is now out in paperback.

This Nickelodeon cartoon turned live-action teen-fairy drama has got lots of people’s attention. So what do Latinas think of ‘Fate: The Winx Saga?’