Prime Video's "Menem" Satirizes Ambition and Its Consequences
…part of “the Menemist decade”, ranging from the uprising led by Colonel Mohamed Alí Seineldín, to the bombings of the Israeli Embassy and the AMIA. “The season is structurally conceived…
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Why "No Other Land" Is Particularly Resonant to This Latina
…grass. This riveting scene doubles as the official poster and main message of No Other Land – the colonizer destroys, the colonized nurtures. Set in the Masafer Yatta region on…
5 Things I Learned from John Leguizamo's "VOCES American Historia"
…Indigenous medical excellence. The Mayans Had Toilets Before The White House Did We have an ingrained, colonized habit of automatically assuming that anything “advanced” must have come from Europe. In…
"The Bear" Season 4 Is Too Cold and Tired to Cook
…to be. More like they’ve accepted defeat, and so has the show. And can we talk about Liza Colón-Zayas for a second? Because what in the bistec encebollado is going…
Tribeca's "Esta Isla" Is The Mythic Coming-Of-Age, Puerto Rican Film I Needed
My relationship with Puerto Rican cinema is, in one word, complicated. Born and raised on the archipelago (but colonized in my way of thinking), I used to run away at…
Celebrating the Pride of Puerto Rico Queer Filmfest 2025
…is much needed, when you consider that between 2019 and 2021, six trans persons were murdered here. After all, in our society, we are force-fed patriarchy, religious fanaticism, and colonial…
Arm Yourself With These Educational Podcasts
…Colonise Latin America,” “Into El Dorado,” “Ancient Mexico,” and much more. Latino USA The Maria-Hinojosa-led Latino USA is “the longest-running public radio Latino news and cultural program,” having run for…
John Leguizamo Called for a Civilian-Powered Accountability Coalition – Let's Do It
…someone watching from the sidelines. I’m a neurodivergent artist, journalist, cultural strategist, and scholar of Puerto Rican and Cuban descent who has spent years studying systems of power, colonialism, and…
Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez Gets Personal and Indigenous with New Novel, "Where Rabbits Gathered"
…perspectives such as North Star, a mother who goes to great lengths to protect her children from the colonizers, to Mountain Coyote, who was abandoned by his mother for being…
"Sinners" Masterfully Makes White People Ego the Problem
…swarm and take because they feel entitled to it all. Look at gentrification. The people colonizing these communities are often the ones espousing ideals of stopping racism. Yet their actions…