…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…
…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…
…many of us. We come from families shaped by migration, by colonial borders, by systems that decided who gets to belong and who doesn’t. We have spent our lives watching how…
…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…
