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Gentefied season two heals Morales’ family trauma. Their triggers bounce around, shared between family members. Their heavy burdens are gently observed.

A partnership between #WeAllGrow Latina and LatinaMedia.Co LATINA EQUAL PAY DAY This year Latinas had to work until OCTOBER 21 to earn, on average, what white guys took home last year. The…

For most of my life, I’ve been Luca, the one trying to keep it cool, constantly having to say: Silenzio, Bruno. Which got me thinking… Why was Luca the way he was? Why did all that anxiety seem so familiar?

The thing that differentiates ‘Never Have I Ever’ from other series for me is Fabiola Torres, the shy, nerdy, robotics-loving, polo shirt-wearing wearing Afro-Latina lesbian I’ve been waiting for.

Today, I watched ‘Banana Land: Blood, Bullets, & Poison,’ created in 2014. And I am outraged. Horrified. Going in, I knew Chiquita was bad but had no idea how violent companies like them really are.

“Hot Pepper.” Strictly Dynamite. Mexican Spitfire. These are some of the Old Hollywood films that iconic Mexican actress Lupe Velez starred in. These are also ways to describe Latina women to this day, especially on the large and small screens.

When Barry Jenkins (Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk) signed on to adapt Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-prize-winning Underground Railroad, we held back. We knew we’d need to hear what Black critics thought.

Make Latinas visible.

“Lineage of Rain” author Janel Pineda discusses the process of publishing her first chapbook, how she prepares for performances, and her hopes for her career and the Salvadoran diaspora.

Watching ‘Dancing with the Devil,’ it’s heartbreaking to reconcile the beautiful, strong Demi Lovato on screen with the powerless woman who overdosed.