How the Media Commits Legacy Femicide Against Latinas
Celeste Rivas Hernandez. Mellie Carballo. Maria Pesantez. In life and in death, these Latinas deserved more than the media’s legacy femicide.
Celeste Rivas Hernandez. Mellie Carballo. Maria Pesantez. In life and in death, these Latinas deserved more than the media’s legacy femicide.
The cost of being Latinx in 2025? Let’s just say fascism is fully back, but this time it has a crush on Jenna Ortega.
The pattern of women of color getting so much hate for just being cast in film and TV adaptations has to stop. They deserve better!
So because of colonization, Latin America wants us all to be white, and the U.S., in their effort to include but also differentiate us in their media, have pigeon-holed the entire community into being the same shade of mestizo brown. But the reality is much more beautiful and complex.
In fear and frustration. Under attack. After El Paso, we find hope as more women of color, trans and nonbinary people rise up.