This reclamation gives us a more realistic story, one that challenges the hyperbolic, racist tropes of Latinas that Hollywood clings to. More importantly, it reminds us that we Latinas have the power to reshape our narratives.

Through a Gothic horror lens, the novel explores how systemic containment, patriarchal violence, and the desperate search for sanctuary collide in a story of Haitian immigrants pursuing the “American Dream.”

How do I remember my heritage for myself? How do I share a history no one told me?

Marcela Fuentes on La Llorona, female rage, a twelve-way bidding war, and why the thing you most need to write is the thing you fear.

How many of us, in the rapidly increasing cost of living, have forgotten the rhythm of a relaxed heartbeat?

I come to her poems as I would to the handwritten letters of long-lost loves and forgotten friends: to re-member what this political moment threatens to tear apart

Here's hoping that, amid everything we work to preserve, the suffocating silence of censorship isn't one of them

What happens when a mother looks at her daughter and realizes she is repeating the very thing she once promised herself she would never do? What if the behaviors we inherit from our mothers are not always ones we would be proud to show off?

Gomez’s book shows us that we can leave, heal, grow, and come back: come back on our terms, and come back to test the air that time and space have changed.

A story where the border is simply home, and the people who live there are fully human: complex, contradictory, and achingly real.

In her debut YA novel, Monica Gomez-Hira takes on coming of age, tradition, Latinidad, and patriarchal family structures through the lens of the quince.

Melissa Castillo-Garsow on editing ¿Y Yo También? Latinas Respond to #MeToo and breaking the generational silences that protect predators.

Read alongside The Great Gatsby, Xochitl Gonzalez's Last Night in Brooklyn asks whether money ever buys belonging in the upper echelons of society.

The tone of the course is more seminar than lecture, and the benefits manifest in a constant engagement between professor, students, and text– all without the use of phones in the classroom.

Adam Wingard's Onslaught seen through a Brown-optic lens, with a Latina mother and daughter at the center of the frame.

Frederick Luis Aldama reads Spider-Man: Brand New Day through a Brown-optic lens, starting with a Latina mayor handing Spider-Man the key to the city.

Yu’s prose flows as much for our reading pleasure as it does for easing us into the long histories and present realities of violence against Asian women. But it also delivers a valuable framework for unpacking traumas, unlearning harmful ideologies, and embracing one’s vulnerabilities after years of detachment and self-preservation. Fetishized brims over with disarming humor and honesty.

David returned home to build Reclamación Wines, a Mexican-American owned, sustainably farmed label: Reclamación. Reclamation.

Javier rebuilds his creator odyssey, showing how a bicultural kid in Whittier scavenged a Latino principia aestetica from whatever the culture left lying around.

Horror, more than any genre, lets you put people in extreme situations and watch their humanity shine.