Op-Ed: We Need Joyful, Messy, Latina Fiction (Like "Someone’s Gotta Give")
…the phone. “But do you have any more trauma to add into your story?” “Umm, no,” I told him. Sure, my family lore is complete with plenty of heart-wrenching experiences:…
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We Need the Voice Behind "Detained," a Memoir of Child Separation
…would call traumas,” Esperanza told Latina Media Co through a translator. “But I wanted to read the audiobook so people could hear my voice.” To co-author Detained with his former…
Op-Ed: Breaking the Spell of Unworthiness – Why I Wrote “I Am Worthy”
…were doing their best under generational trauma. Through patriarchal religions that silenced the feminine voice of God. Through a colonial world that told us to shrink, obey, assimilate. And I…
"Shiny Happy People" Season 2 Exposes the Christian Fundamentalist Pipeline Fueling the Far Right
…the Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP), Season 2 pivots to a deeper, more militant narrative: how a generation of evangelical youth was weaponized through militarized obedience, trauma, and the…
"Archive of Unknown Universes" May Just Be Your Next Favorite Beach Read
…stem from her own traumatic experiences. The novel resolves the stories of Ana, Luis, Neto, and Ernesto, but leaves the reader with unanswered questions. Any honest book that touches on…
"The Bear" Season 4 Is Too Cold and Tired to Cook
…The Bear matter. The anxiety, the stakes, the way it held up a mirror to the immigrant hustle, to inherited trauma, to the way we turn kitchens into both battlefields…
Blood Ties and Betrayal, “The Better Sister” Is THAT Murder Mystery
…that sucker punches your weekend plans, leaves your group chat on read, and has you texting your therapist mid-season like, “So let’s talk about sibling trauma and shared husbands…” Yep….
"The Materialists" Wastes Pedro Pascal on a Story that Punishes Female Ambition
…the few refreshing choices the film makes is in how it presents Harry. Unlike so many films that reduce Latino characters to immigrant trauma narratives or hyper-masculine clichés, The Materialists…
Op-Ed: What Happened When I Put “Art Above Everything”
…was her resistance; her canvases, her dissent. In Iceland, I met a novelist who overcame the trauma of rape by creating a tenth-century narrator who knifed her perpetrator after enduring…
Five Films to Catch at LALIFF 2025
…Sons follows a group of Marines a decade after one of the most physically and emotionally traumatic times of their lives. Anchoring the story is a video diary left behind…