Star Wars Princess Leia is Based on this Mexican Revolutionary
…that inspired Princess Leia’s legendary hairdo. Meet Colonel Clara de la Rocha, one of the many unsung female heroes of the Mexican Revolution, best known today as adelitas. So who…
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In "Lone Yellow Flower," Poet Erika Gill Interrogates Identity & Change
…colonization, the trauma of history, disability, and queer, Black, and Latine identity. They explore the internal conflicts they face between desire and disappointment, darkness and redemption, presence and emptiness. In…
"A Body to Live In" Links Pain, Spirituality, and Cultural Appropriation
…faded from view. Madsen’s documentary sits squarely inside that contradiction. It celebrates the queer and artistic communities that forged radical understandings of the body while interrogating the colonial echoes embedded…
"La Brega" Season 3 Lets Puerto Rican History Breathe
…Spanish. This latest season comes at a time when Puerto Rico and its colonial status are top of mind, thanks to reggaeton star Bad Bunny’s performance at the Super Bowl…
Op-Ed: Why I Tell the Story of a Mexican Queen in "The Other Moctezuma Girls"
…After Hernan Cortés arrived, Moctezuma gave his daughter to Cortés as a “gift,” and the colonizers baptized Tecuichpoch with the Spanish name, Isabel Moctezuma. She then survived the smallpox epidemic…
With Sharp Irony, Puerto Rico May Lose the Bad Bunny & Residente Film
…my research on Colonial Stockholm Syndrome, I examine how colonized populations can internalize loyalty to systems that constrain their autonomy. It is not a matter of ignorance or weakness. It…
For Women's History Month 2026, I Dove into the Literary Archives
…Nations are located in what is colonially known as “British Columbia,” and the authors reflect on a cultural exchange they did with the Mapuche people of southern Chile. Aquelarre also…
"P FKN R" and the Politics of Bad Bunny
…The Puerto Rican flag itself, a blue triangle surrounded by red and white stripes, has been a symbol of resistance since the 19th century. Its presence threatened colonial officials so…
"The Legend of Luis Valdez" Illuminates Chicano History (and Its Limitations)
…what happened when the colonizers took our women.” This phrasing neatly gets to the heart of the problems with American Pachuco and Chicanismo as an identity and a movement: women…
Sundance Doc "Aanikoobijigan" Reveals Perversity and Unity
…perspective as filmmakers is clearly visible. “We’re hyper aware of the ways in which settler colonial cinematic conventions have been used as a weapon to dispossess Indigenous people of our…