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Fighting for the Future: How Paula Mendoza & Abby Sher Turn Activism into Dystopian Fiction
Sanctuary is about escaping a horrific regime, while Solis focuses on fighting back to build a better world.
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3 days ago6 min read
Opera of the Hispanophone Americas: Transforming Traditions, Shattering Boundaries
Opera is not just a European artifact but a global and evolving tradition capable of reflecting the lived experiences of diverse cultures.
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Dec 31, 20249 min read
Representation, Storytelling, and Writing for Change: A Conversation with Natalia Sylvester
Natalia Sylvester on her writing process, the power of representation, and the challenges and joys of telling Latina-centered stories today.
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Dec 15, 20244 min read
Reflection & Renewal: Chican(x) Futurism An Evening at Gallery 2000 (Part 1)
This exhibit challenges me to reframe past, present, and future as more cyclical than linear.
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Dec 11, 20243 min read
In/Visibility by Design: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio’s Debut Novel Catalina
Catalina refreshes the campus novel by tackling issues like rising tuition, student activism, and racial diversity and undocumented status
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Dec 4, 20245 min read
Destination Mexico City: The 1970s Underbelly of Rock and Roll, Comics, & Noir in Velvet Was the Night
In this historical fiction, noir romance novel, Moreno-Garcia captures the escalating violence between Mexico’s government and protesters.
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Dec 3, 20244 min read
"Poetry to Praxis: Yesenia Moya & Community Art Resistance in Southern Nevada"
"Son de Mi Ser" exhibit Challenges inarticulation and settler colonialism
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Nov 14, 20244 min read
PUTINOIKA Unbound: Sophia Yip Reviews Braschi's Ingenious Multi-Genre Masterpiece!
PUTINOIKA writes against any definitions and forms while acknowledging the possibility of creating the unexpected!
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Oct 28, 20245 min read
Ujjwal Prasai Reviews Here to Stay: Poetry and Prose from the Undocumented Diaspora
Undocumented Writers as beings of this earth, of the countries of their or their parents’ origins, and equally of America
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Oct 23, 20247 min read
Welcome to Oxnard: An Interview with Cristina Herrera
Welcome to Oxnard celebrates Michelle Serros all while paying homage to Oxnard
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Oct 13, 20244 min read
The Wondrous Poetic Futurisms in Pedro Iniguez’s Mexicans on the Moon
nothing can prepare you for the unique voice that is Iniguez in his debut poetry collection Mexicans on the Moon!
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Oct 11, 20244 min read
An Altar of Stories: Rios De La Luz Crafts a Haunting Tapestry of Speculative Fiction
Rios De La Luz's An Altar of Stories to Liminal Saints is speculative fiction that captivates readers and pushes the genre!
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Oct 7, 20243 min read
Miguel A. Briones's Macho No Machismo: Affirming Tender Masculinities
El Paso native and current Austenite, Miguel A. Briones , reclaims Chicano masculinity in Macho No Machismo: Helpful and Nice , a...
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Oct 7, 20243 min read
Paloma Aguirre Reviews Paola Mendoza and Abby Sher’s Sci-Fi YA Novel, Solis!
Paola Mendoza and Abby Sher’s YA novel, Solis asks, how imminent a future can dystopian fiction imagine for young readers?
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Oct 7, 20244 min read
Aunt Lute Press: El Mundo Zurdo’s Call for Collective Solidarity
Aunt Lute Books serves as a case study of what ethical solidarity looks like!
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Sep 27, 20248 min read
On Latinx Pop Culture & Poetics: An Interview with José Olivarez
Melissa Castillo Planas Interviews poet José Olivarez. The talk about Latinx pop culture, translation, COVID lockdown, migration. . .
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Sep 14, 20247 min read
Re-membering Outside the Box: Erika Abad Interviews Xochil Xitlalli
Erika Abad interviews two-spirit artist Xochil Xitlalli
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Sep 12, 20244 min read
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.
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Sep 2, 20244 min read
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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Aug 14, 20245 min read
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!
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