Poignant, tragic, and revealing, Maria Mealla’s ‘Bring Me An Avocado’ explores what your average good dad will do when his wife ends up in a coma.
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“Cassandro” is a moving, and sweet biopic that touches on interesting ideas about gender and performance, even if it could have gone deeper.
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Check out this interview with Chicana, Puerto Rican, and New Mexican Marisa Tirado on her “Selena Didn’t Know Spanish Either.”
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Hypercompetent and strong, the new Latina stereotype may be positive but it’s still damaging. We deserve to see more of ourselves on screen.
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A beautiful, meditative film, “Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe” both is and is not the typical coming-of-age story.
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Che Diaz, the first Latinx main character in the SATC franchise, is a queer cliché and that’s not the type of representation we need.
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Like it or not, Greta Gerwig’s movie has everyone asking, who is Barbie? And every feminist asking, do we like her now?
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In “The Purge” TV show, Jane and Penelope’s weariness is their path to rejecting the rules of a society that doesn’t value them.
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Both Barbies and telenovelas peaked at the turn of the millennium, leading to an implosion of feminine world-building for Latinas like me.
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While we mourn the Supreme Court’s recent regressive rulings in #TheLatinaPress, we won’t let the backlash stop us.