With DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOTos, Bad Bunny Shows Us He’s a Visual Poet
…with the discomfort of these questions. How do we go back? Can we go back? For Puerto Rico, where the impacts of colonization now morph into the violence of gentrification,…
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At the 2025 Golden Globes, Latinos Didn’t Win Many But We Won BIG!
…Latina Nava Mau did too. So, we are putting that in the “win” column for the gente. Latinas Liza Colón-Zayas (up for best television supporting actress) and Selena Gomez (double…
2024 Superlatives in Latina Media
…stereotypes. So where do you land? Best Awards Run: Liza Colón-Zayas We’ve been fangirling for Liza Colón-Zayas. She’s phenomenal in The Bear and whenever she shows up (like in If…
The Best Latinx Books of 2024
…the effects of intergenerational trauma, centuries of colonization, and sexism, she attempts to heal the pain that is so often embodied in female family lines in Tías and Primas. Break…
Netflix's "One Hundred Years of Solitude" Is a Courageous Retelling
…magnum opus that embodies Latin American colonialism and banana republicanism? How do you adapt to film a profoundly visual story that left Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes “crushed?” You make it…
Disney Parks Expansion Means More Latinx Representation
…storytelling, glyphs and calendars revealing the Mayas’ linguistic and scientific prowess, helping to counteract some of the more negative and colonial depictions of the Maya empire in the film. Pueblo…
“Celestina Cordero Molina, Siempre Viva” is a Necessary Anthology
…the home. Celestina – being a free, educated, unmarried, and childless Black woman – defied everything the colonial system represented. (Note: the vile institution of slavery would be abolished here…
Dascha Polanco Shares About Voicing a Lizard Queen in "Dora"
Actress Dascha Polanco (Orange Is the New Black) can’t remember a time in her life when she didn’t watch children’s TV shows. Classics like Sesame Street, Reading Rainbow, and Mister…
Latinos Finally Did Good at the 2024 Emmys
…Colón-Zayas earned an Emmy for her role in The Bear. Her win marked the first time a Latina has ever won the statue for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy….
With "Tías and Primas," Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez Gives Us New Models
…I spoke to Mojica Rodíguez about how she approached writing this book that aims to bring some healing to the intergenerational trauma, ongoing sexism, and centuries of colonization that Latinas…