…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…
…about a gang of street dogs fighting to survive, NonPack #13 (Tres pasitos), co-written by Rangely García Colón and Samuel Figueroa Vázquez, and illustrated by Colón. As an Afro-Latina, I…
…the island’s cinema, which is struggling to escape from the United States’ colonial shadow and express itself in its natural language and form. Un Día de Mayo, which opens in…
…valid, too. But regardless, we should pay more attention to how our community engages with its history and ongoing colonial legacies. Specifically, the ongoing colonial violence Indigenous peoples face across…
…de la Vega) finds himself caught between his professional duties and his personal morals. But that’s not all: there are also new storylines linked to the corrupt Colonel Hernández (Gerardo…
