One of the most powerful moments of Imelda is Not Alone, a documentary short directed by award-winning Salvadoran filmmaker Paula Heredia, is seeing a young rape victim handcuffed to her…
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Mujeres to FollowWhat We're Watching
Q&A with Rosamary Berríos Hernández, Director of “Santiago de Las Mujeres”
by Lola Rosarioby Lola Rosario“Santiago de las Mujeres” director Rosamary Berríos Hernández talks culture, cinematography, and the importance of telling our stories.
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Justicia and CulturaWhat We're Watching
“Shiny Happy People” Exposes More than the Duggar Family
by Ingrid Cruzby Ingrid Cruz“Shiny Happy People” problematizes the Duggar family as entertainment, showing how Discovery+ normalized fundamentalist conservative values.
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Mujeres to FollowWhat We're Watching
10 Latina-Led Movies To Watch Ahead of International Women’s Day
As we get close to International Women’s Day (March 8), let’s take a moment to highlight some feel-good Latina-led films.
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Justicia and CulturaMujeres to FollowWhat We're Watching
Pamela Anderson is the Superheroine We Didn’t Know We Needed
by Yamily Habibby Yamily HabibWith “Pamela, A Love Story,” Pamela Anderson shows a life of dissociation, violence, and resilience, finally regaining control.
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Justicia and CulturaWhat We're Watching
“A Sinister Sect: Colonia Dignidad” Is a Hard But Necessary Watch
by Ingrid Cruzby Ingrid CruzNetflix’s A Sinister Sect: Colonia Dignidad is a Chilean and German documentary series with much to teach us. But warning, it includes details of sexual abuse of minors, coercion of women, domestic violence, and torture that are deeply disturbing.
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If you need some motivation, check out our five lessons from the Jennifer Lopez (or should I say Jennifer Affleck?!) documentary ‘Halftime.’
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Today, I watched ‘Banana Land: Blood, Bullets, & Poison,’ created in 2014. And I am outraged. Horrified. Going in, I knew Chiquita was bad but had no idea how violent companies like them really are.