You should watch “The Gordita Chronicles” NOW and not just because it’s going to need a lot of love to make it to season two!
Alexa De La Fuente
Alexa De La Fuente
Alexa De La Fuente is a student at Brown University ('23) and a proud Tejana with Mexican heritage rooted back to San Luis Potosi. She is studying Ethnic Studies and Education while also being a Mellon Mays fellow, a coordinator for the Sexual Assault Peer Educator program, and an immigration advocate for the Student Clinic for Immigration Justice. Her favorite hobbies include watching movies/tv shows and cooking with her Buelita. She writes with her Ma, Buelita, Bisabuelita, and Pa in mind. Her instagram handle is @alexaofthefountain.
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“Devious Maids” focuses on the relationships between Latinas, specifically how comadrazgo can be a source of conflict and resolution.
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When I was little, all I could look forward to in terms of rom-coms or family comedies were movies like How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days or The…
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Viewing A24’s X caused a whirlwind in my mind with questions of completeness, youth, and existential dread swirling in my head non-stop.
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Reality competition shows like The Circle can be heartwarming in their own way, but they can also show how people can justify their hostility – a reality connected heavily to how we racialize each other.
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I consider la familia one of the most important and confusing parts of being a Latina, so I appreciated the 2021 Latinx movie ‘No One Gets Out Alive’ for navigating this complicated territory inside the classic horror genre. But in the journey of killing off the mother and fighting the pressures of being a good Latina daughter, the movie ends up reinforcing established power dynamics that leaves the Latina with no escape, just death.
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Shang-Chi is an absolutely stunning and captivating movie, and it fills my heart with hope for more culturally-encompassing films. But how they portray the character of Xialing, Shang-Chi’s sister reveals there is more work to be done to represent women of color.