I quit my job and dedicated the next two years of my life, together with my mother, to writing her and our family’s life story — centered around generational trauma and the beauty of breaking cycles and healing.
A Disney animated feature is always a big deal. But when it’s a banner number like the 60th release and the first in-theater feature since the start of the pandemic, it’s an even bigger deal. Of course, Encanto is particularly important for Latinxs – one of the rare ones to feature us. A magical realist […]
On #TheLatinaPress: Issue 8, we highlight Latina-authored holiday gift guides, reviews of ‘Encanto,’ and Latina comedians.
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 cocktail of xenophobia, racism, and sexism at the heart of this pay gap is not news to us. Activist and organizer Mónica Ramírez wrote an op-ed […]
This Latina Equal Pay Day, we can’t help but think that the size of Latinas’ paystubs is tied to how invisible we are. It doesn’t have to be this way.
A partnership between #WeAllGrow Latina and LatinaMedia.Co IMMIGRATION: WHY HAITI DESERVES OUR EXPLICIT SUPPORT The terrible treatment of immigrants along the border is never news to us. However, the images of Haitians being physically accosted by border patrol on horses remind us of the racism behind how too many perceive immigrants. Latino Rebels Radio had guest Danyeli […]
A partnership between #WeAllGrow Latina and LatinaMedia.Co NEWS FOR LATINAS BY LATINAS From Haiti to Afghanistan to the continuing pandemic, we cannot ignore what’s happening in our world today. Luckily there are Latinas, but not nearly enough, in newsrooms breaking down these complex, loaded events and giving us the resources to take action. Toni Gonzalez covered Haiti’s […]
A partnership between #WeAllGrow Latina and LatinaMedia.Co THE OLYMPICS Costa Rican gymnast Luciana Alvarado made us proud by working a Black Lives Matter Tribute into her routine. We have to acknowledge the greatness of Simone Biles and Naomi Osaka as one of our favs, Carmen Phillips, did in her wonderful note to Black girls everywhere for Autostraddle. And for a final dose of […]
Based on one of the most epic Twitter threads of all time, ‘Zola’ (the film) is directed by a Latina Janizca Bravo and features Latino star Colman Domingo.
#TheLatinaPress is a monthly newsletter, dishing up the top stories, trends, and media conversations by and for Latinas. In Issue 3, we get into ‘In the Heights,’ Pride, immigration, and so much more!