Re-membering Outside the Box: Erika Abad Interviews Xochil Xitlalli
Erika Abad interviews two-spirit artist Xochil Xitlalli
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Art & literature
Angel Avila
- Sep 12
- 4 min
Channeling Inner Diosa Energy: The Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center Connects Comunidad through Accessible Art & Conversation
Through community conversation, artists and community members connect, share, and reflect on what "Diosa energy" is.
720
Rose Padilla
- Sep 2
- 4 min
Rose Padilla Reviews Matt de la Peña & Paola Escobar's The Perfect Place!
Matt de la Peña and Paola Escobar's kid's book, The Perfect Place, asks, what’s so great about being perfect, anyway?
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Cristina Herrera
- Aug 14
- 5 min
To Cali, with Love: A Review of Writing the Golden State: The New Literary Terrain of California
Offers deeply personal accounts of pockets of California and their complexity!
1100
Angel Avila
- Jul 20
- 3 min
Artistry and Culture of Texas’s Lowriders
The exhibit not only showcases three-dimensional objects of lowrider culture but also provides briefs about its history
720
Paloma Aguirre
- Jul 8
- 2 min
Paloma Aguirre Reviews Gume Laurel III's Samson and Domingo & Brujos of Borderland High!
Gume Laurel III’s books do something that not all YA texts do— they let queer teens be more than tropes of their sexuality.
430
Melissa Castillo Planas
- May 31
- 5 min
10 Latinx/ Latine Poets for Pride Month
10 Latinx/ Latine Poets for Pride Month
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Erika Abad
- May 22
- 4 min
“LatinX Marks the Wound and Space for Collective Healing”
I want to highlight how artists across the U.S. cross ethno-national borders to heal together.
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Frederick Aldama
- May 21
- 3 min
“Structures of Feeling & The Edgar; or Abuelita’s Bowl Cut”
It’s a way to intentionally affirm the Otherness that a conformist mainstream throws at youth.
340
Ralph Villanueva
- May 12
- 4 min
Aldama & Itzel Usher in a Sci-Fi Worldbuilding Paradigm Shift: A Review of Labyrinths Borne
Aldama offers a path forward by offering readers an emotional, intellectually spirited & collectivist minded tale.
490
Cristina Herrera
- May 5
- 8 min
Frederick Luis Aldama Talks with Cristina Herrera: Misfits, Sonic Revolutions, Familial Reconciliations, & Craving More Fiction that Misfits Publishing Molds
I wanted Max Rodriguez to hit the hard truths but also, and overwhelmingly, to take readers to places of joy and compassion.
710
Luis Torres
- May 5
- 11 min
Frederick Luis Aldama’s Pressing Passion to Portray & Proclaim Powerful Truths of Youth Surviving in the US-Mexico Borderlands: A Conversation
While the borderlands shape each protagonist differently, their individual stories thread together to form a greater tapestry.
590
Dan Johnson
- May 4
- 16 min
Jonathan Hill and the Power of Encouragement
what I took from Hill's talk was a humble attitude of gratitude for all the little lights that shone in the dark, the simple gestures.
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Cristina Herrera
- Apr 21
- 5 min
Mapping Latinidades On the Mad River: Cristina Herrera Reviews Lucrecia Guerrero’s Latest Novel
Lucrecia Guerrero’s latest novel, On the Mad River, set in the hardscrabble former factory town of Mad River, Ohio, we’re reminded of Latinx
661
Mariela Pinilla
- Mar 27
- 3 min
Mariela Pinilla Reviews The Absolutely (Almost) True Adventures of Max Rodriguez
The novel is exactly what the “misfits, botched-jobbers, and unapologetic originals” have been waiting for.
960
Sonia Gonzalez
- Mar 15
- 3 min
Sonia Gonzalez Reviews Olivas's Chicano Frankenstein
"He didn't seem to belong anywhere. Neither here nor there." This is how Daniel A. Olivas describes the unnamed protagonist of his new...
1020
Mariela Pinilla
- Mar 4
- 11 min
Chicano Frankenstein: Sci-Fi Fantasy or Gritty Everyday Realism?
Daniel Olivas’s powerful new novel, Chicano Frankenstein, takes place in a semi-futuristic— yet very present—United States. In this...
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Dan Johnson
- Feb 16
- 8 min
Vulnerability Is My Superpower
Roughly 15 years ago, I had a major breakdown that derailed me from graduate school. It took several months and several diagnoses until...
1730
Cristina Herrera
- Feb 7
- 5 min
Para Las “Callejeras,” the “Bad Women,” and All Those Mujeres Our Mothers Warned Us About: A Review of Estella Gonzalez’s Huizache Women
My abuela, Mamá Chonita, was not an easy woman, nor was she what some would consider very affectionate. Her hugs and kisses were offered...
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