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:…
…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:…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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 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…
…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 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…
…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…
…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…