Kristian Mercado’s Mataron a Pedro carries the weight of history, memory, and Puerto Rican colonization into LALIFF. Premiering at the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (LALIFF) on May 28,…
…once tortured and murdered. The state builds a penal colony in the wilderness to ‘rehabilitate” inmates, who can never leave. The novel opens decades later, as the operations are winding…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
