…be a rarity. Although we’re a comedy and entertainment-focused podcast, it is still essential for us to preserve our roots through these legends, as many predate colonization. Our indigenous ancestors…
In 2025, we got a clearer picture of the place Latino talent holds in Hollywood today. Series like The Bear cemented that presence with complex main characters, like Liza Colón-Zayas’s…
…Robert Pattinson, an “expendable” whose job description requires him to die repeatedly for the benefit of an interstellar colony. Mickey is cloned over and over again – each version retaining…
…deviance. Then it strips critics’ legitimacy. Eventually, it makes their suffering legible only as spectacle or punishment. In a colonial nation already conditioned to accept hierarchy, surveillance, and obedience, this…
…history. A blank canvas that exists to meet market demand. Gross. This is where the Colonial Psychological Complex – the system-level reproduction of colonial power, values, and disposability across modern…
…– a movie I was obsessed with as a child, after I found out my granda’s quinceañera dress was a recreation of Eliza Doolittle’s white ballgown. My Fair Señor celebrates…
…place. It’s Colonial Stockholm Syndrome here too – the season bends over backwards to appease the very culture it claims to critique. Instead of dismantling power, it courts it. Instead…
I meet so many Latine adults who don’t know our history (thanks colonialism). I’m talking the story of how we became a multiracial group, how European colonialism could not dampen…
…air. They echo our colonial past. Think of folklores like La Llorona, the weeping woman who drowned her children and roamed the earth in guilt. Over time, that myth fused…
…us to expose these injustices. The narratives around these deaths are not random, but rooted in colonial systems that decide who gets lamented and who fades without notice. Legacy femicide…
