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Digging for Love: Latinx Representation Shines in Jo Segura’s Raiders of the Lost Heart
With her Mexican heritage front and center, Segura tells a story that blends romance, adventure, and meaningful social critique with effortless charm.
Jun 32 min read
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Aqua-pessimism and Black-Brown Futurities in Wakanda Forever (2022)
Namor’s vision could be described as aqua-pessimism—a fluid, insurgent worldview that interrogates whether the surface world, as it currently exists, is even worthy of inclusion in the inevitable, irrepressible unfolding of Black and Brown futures.
May 313 min read
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An Alchemical Reaction: Review of Isabel Cañas' The Possession of Alba Díaz
If you’re looking to read horror, historical fiction, slow burn romance, or simply a few hundred pages of engrossing prose, Alba Díaz and Isabel Cañas will not disappoint.
May 223 min read
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Let’s Go! Latinx Creators Reimagine Comics for a New Generation
It’s not always easy to pin down what makes a comic “Latinx” or "Latino."
May 213 min read
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Slaying and Staying True: Guillermo De La Cruz’s Queer Chicanx Journey in What We Do in the Shadows
hat We Do in the Shadows offers a refreshing portrayal of queer Chicanx identity: not through heavy-handed drama, but through laughter, horror, and heart.
May 13 min read
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Stretching Beyond the Script: Luffy, Latinx Masculinity, & the Power of Imagination
In the Hollywood machine, Latinx masculinity is too often boxed into rigid, reductive roles...what if masculinity looked different?
May 14 min read
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Latinx Narratives in Anime: Alita: Battle Angel, a Cultural Adaptation Without Erasure
Alita: Battle Angel is a vibrant, layered world mirrored the social disparities often explored in Latin American cinema
Apr 304 min read
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Letting Our Hair Down at the NoMAA with artist Tafy LaPlanche
NoMAA’s exhibit would be the stepping-stone for everyone’s hair and identities
Apr 305 min read
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Book Talk with Sam Ceballos: Eliamaría Madrid's Princesa Taco!
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Apr 151 min read
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Bad Moon Rising: Latino Werewolves and the Fight Against Monster Stereotypes
Werewolves get a bad rap. But is that the whole story? What happens when Latino representation enters the mix?
Apr 153 min read
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Erased in Plain Sight: The Brutality Against Women of Color in Netflix's Show, You
In You, violence against women of color is graphic, emotional, and final.
Apr 144 min read
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Gods, Guts & Glitter: Why The Sunbearer Trials Slays!
There are no white people in The Sunbearer Trials. Period.
Apr 144 min read
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Exploring the Influence of Latinx Pop Culture Today
Latinx pop culture is more than just a trend; it is a powerful movement that impacts various sectors such as music, television, and...
Apr 114 min read
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Finding Your Spanglish Stride: A Review of Speak Up, Santiago!
Speak Up, Santiago! is a warm story about friendship, self-determination, and disrupting the notion that there is a “right” way to be Latino.
Apr 93 min read
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How Latino Comedians Are Getting Creative on TikTok (and why it matters)
Platforms like TikTok and Instagram reels become a center for Latinx creativity... there is a creative freedom that this funding allows that has resulted in the emergence of Latinx comedy that is written, directed and performed by Latinx creators for a Latinx audience.
Apr 23 min read
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Power in the Numbers: Chicanofuturism and Afrofuturism in The Umbrella Academy
Diego and Allison in The Umbrella Academy Rewrite the Rules of Sci-Fi Representation!
Apr 23 min read
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A Magical Reformation: Veronica Chapa’s Feminist Retelling of La Malinche in Malinalli: A Novel
Chapa reimagines La Malinche through a fantastical lens, centering themes of language, loyalty, and vengeance.
Apr 13 min read
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Staging Latinidad: Gigi Guizado on Theater, Translation, & Community in Las Vegas
Erika Abad talks with Gigi Guizado about the recent surge in readings and performances of Latin American and Latino plays across the Vegas Valley.
Apr 110 min read
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Monsters Among Us: Vampires and Colonial Violence in Isabel Cañas’ Vampires of El Norte
Vampires of El Norte is a powerful contribution to Latino-centered storytelling that reclaims horror as a space to explore memory, resistance, and survival.
Apr 12 min read
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Found Forms, Frontera Stories: An Interview with José Alaniz
A "house of mirrors," the book spans eras—from the Republic of Texas to a dystopian future Atlanta to 1990s Los Angeles.
Mar 315 min read
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