"We do projectile deflection on Mondays"

If this last episode of the year from The Simpsons has anything to teach, it is that community is made stronger by forging friendships and turning strangers into neighbors.

Popo the Xolo (2025), author Paloma Angelina Lopez, and author celebrating Día de Muertos at The Ohio State University Paloma Angelina Lopez is a Mexican-American author currently living in the US. Her family hails from Jalisco and Guanajuato on her mother's side and Zacatecas and Sinaloa on her father's side. Her debut, Popo the Xolo (2025), grew from the loss of her own abuela a few years prior. Written in Spanglish and Spanish, the book celebrates both modern Mexican

Explore Achilles Come Down by Gang of Youths, a modern reimagining of the Greek hero Achilles that delves into mental health, resilience, and the struggle between despair and survival. This powerful song blends myth, emotion, and music to create a moving story of quiet heroism.

Critical Incident and The Alabama Solution cover and contribute to the ongoing conversation around the Border Industrial Complex (BIC) and the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) respectively.

At Latino Comics Expo 2025, held at Long Beach's Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA), five comic artists came together to talk with me and a crowd of LCX attendees about From Cocinas to Lucha Libre Ringsides: A Latinx Comics Anthology.

In conversation between Meza-León and Iturriaga at the Latino Comics Expo 2025 they discuss their creative journeys, the making of Batman Azteca, and the future of Latinx storytelling in animation.

What I love about Las Hermanas Iglesias is the collaboration across coasts and generations that they embody as an articulation of how resisting erasure, of centering acknowledgement with extreme care, demonstrates the strength and determination possible within this state of uncertainty and the full embodiment of the ancestries and lineages we carry.

I.V. Marie’s Immortal Consequences is a young adult fantasy novel that explores the supernatural through the emotion-rich journeys of young people in a dark academia setting.

This is how I read Nacho's Taco, the latest entry in Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series: as an invitation to ride along, to taste and think and remember.

With its queer protagonist, colorful aesthetic, and political undertones, it had all the ingredients for a cinematic breakthrough that could have re-centered the existing rhetoric surrounding Mexican and queer realities. Instead, we got a fever dream of queer clichés and a narrow-minded European fantasy of Mexico—a superficial spectacle that stumbles clumsily over the very identities it claims to uplift.

Diego Rivera reviews LatinoLand through an insightful analysis and gets to the book's core arguments and delivery.

Dan Johnson does a beautiful in-depth analysis of Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.

United States of Banana: A Graphic Novel is a work of metamorphoses and becomings, masterfully achieved through the image-inspiring words of iconic Latinx poet and radical thinker Giannina Braschi and the artwork of Joakim Lindengren, whose illustrations give them a bizarre and beautiful twist.

Daniel Chacón's fiction doesn't just cross borders; it questions the very nature of boundaries themselves.

Anzaldúa's work is central to my research interests, particularly materials related to children's and young adult literature, queer femininity, and water imagery in folkloric contexts.

This refreshing novel weaves together the story of forgotten Cuban artist Anita de Monte in the 1980s and Puerto Rican-American Raquel Toro in the late 1990s. Anita battles marginalization in the art world and oppression from her abusive husband—even after her death. A decade later, Raquel navigates her identity as a Latina at Brown University, constantly reminded of her supposed inferiority in elite spaces.

Living as I do, entre mundos/between moving worlds, I hope to continue to tell stories that illuminate, resist, and heal.

"Oh, I auditioned for that show, but I heard they were going ethnic." Imagine sitting at a table with other women in the acting industry and hearing this, knowing you were the "ethnic hire". This was Stephanie Beatriz's reality when she landed the role of Rosa Diaz on Brooklyn Nine-Nine. She recounts this uncomfortable memory on the More Better  podcast she co-hosts with Melissa Fumero. Perhaps the woman meant to say, "I'm happy to see more representation on television"—at l

Chapa tells a new story for Malinalli, creating an environment where Malinalli has a chance to show herself in a way that history has not afforded her.