Justicia and Cultura

With his sophomore release “El Gusano,” author Luis Carlos Barragán Castro shows a trend in his work, where he integrates the imaginative power of science-fiction and the richness of Latin American culture to imagine better worlds. Not perfect, not absent of conflict, pain, confusion, or death, but better.

Author and Latina Rebels’ founder Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez’s debut, For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color is the book I’ve been waiting for my whole life. What began as her love letter, almost a prayer, addressed to brown girls has become a 270-page book. It’s to, for, and about Latinas who have to navigate racism, sexism, and classism in all spaces, but particularly white-dominant ones.

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…

For your next TBR (to be read) book, I want to suggest five great Latina authors you should know about, as well as their must-read 2021 books.

The first time Danny Trejo heard the phrase “toxic masculinity” he was 74 years old, and as you can imagine, his first response was, “What the hell is toxic masculinity?”

So because of colonization, Latin America wants us all to be white, and the U.S., in their effort to include but also differentiate us in their media, have pigeon-holed the entire community into being the same shade of mestizo brown. But the reality is much more beautiful and complex.

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…

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.

When I was little, it seemed like my path of love was clear as a Latina woman: meet a Hispanic Catholic guy, date him for about two years (but stay a virgin, of course), then marry and have a lot of kids. The problem with the supposed “straight and narrow” path happens when you venture away from it.

By making their stage names sound more “American” (aka what white people perceive as being from the US), Latinx actors often avoid getting pigeonholed as the stereotypical criminals, janitors, maids, etc., even if the practice contributes to our erasure.