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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...
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?
Oct 7, 20243 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!
Oct 7, 20244 min read


This Bridge Called My Language: Marcela T. Garcés's Me llamo Marcela: My Story as a Heritage Speaker
Marcela T. Garcés's coming of age as a second-generation Colombian American and her experiences as a Spanish heritage speaker.
Oct 4, 20243 min read


The Thirteen: The Origins of An Extraordinary League of Latinx Teen Superheroes!
Dan Johnson reviews the comics book issues that make up the Thirteen Origins and the stories of Latinx teens coming into their superpowers!
Oct 2, 20245 min read


Marianna D Rooks Reviews Coywolf Book 1: "Spirit of the Coywolf"
Spirit of the Coywolf is a scintillating representation of powerful Native Afro-Latina women and the American Southwest.
Sep 30, 20243 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. . .
Sep 27, 20248 min read


Re-membering Outside the Box: Erika Abad Interviews Xochil Xitlalli
Erika Abad interviews two-spirit artist Xochil Xitlalli
Sep 14, 20247 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.
Sep 12, 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?
Sep 2, 20244 min read


Problemista: A Surrealist Venture into the Immigration Complex
Review of Julio Torres's Problemista--a tribute to an El Salvador that has seldom—if ever—been depicted on film!
Aug 18, 20245 min read


A Plan of Her Own: Sam Ceballos Reviews Eat Your Heart Out Volume 1
Eat Your Heart Out is about community, dream seeking, acceptance, love, family, and self-discovery.
Aug 17, 20243 min read


Labyrinths Borne: The Revolutionary Latinxfuturist Vision of Frederick Luis Aldama
I wanted to conceive of the future in a radically different way. One where the new gens look to philosophy, literature, art & science. . .
Aug 17, 20249 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!
Aug 14, 20245 min read


Death, Bats, & Deities: Rose Padilla Reviews The Return of Camazotz #1
The Return of Camazotz is stunning, unsettling, and—like the Mayan bat god of death that haunts the protagonists—impossible to put down.
Jul 29, 20243 min read


Frida Kahlo Comes Alive: Paloma Aguirre Reviews Who Was Her Own Work of Art? by Terry Blas & Ashanti Fortson"
Review of Who Was Her Own Work of Art? by Terry Blas (writer) and Ashanti Fortson (illustrator)
Jul 29, 20242 min read


JOEY LOPEZ HOSTS LATINX VIDEOGAME PODCAST!
Joey Lopez, Director of Texas A&M Media Lab, introduces the Latinx Videogam Popcast!
Jul 27, 20241 min read


Andrew Li's PopCast on The Owl House!
Tune In: Andrew Li's insightful PopCast on the animation show, The Owl House and LGBTQ and Afrolatina Intersectional Identities!
Jul 22, 20241 min read


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
Jul 20, 20243 min read


Get Those Line Drivers Out: A Review of Julio Quintana’s The Long Game
Ralph Villenueva Reviews of Julio Quintana's film The Long Game
Jul 18, 20244 min read
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