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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


Communidad y Familia in Samuel Teer and Mar Julia’s Brownstone: Review by Samantha Ceballos
Reading Brownstone brought out emotions in me that I was not expecting.
Jul 10, 20244 min read


Paloma Aguirre Reviews Gume Laurel III's Samson and Domingo & Brujos of Borderland High!
Gume Laurel III’s books do something that not all YA texts do— they let queer teens be more than tropes of their sexuality.
Jul 8, 20242 min read


The Versatility of Gina Rodriguez in Hollywood: Adventurer, Dreamer, & Trailblazer
Review article that explores the roles Latina actor Gina Rodriguez has played
Jul 6, 20244 min read


One Day at a Time: A Momentary Change in the Tide of Latinx Representation
One Day at a Time points to a shift in tide in Latinx representation in popular culture.
Jun 13, 20245 min read


Embracing Diversity: Bodegas, Brownstones, and the Rich Tapestry of Our Latinidades
Interview explores experiences with language barriers, cultural syncretism, “found family,” gentrification, and homophobia
Jun 13, 20249 min read


10 Latinx/ Latine Poets for Pride Month
10 Latinx/ Latine Poets for Pride Month
May 31, 20245 min read


Los Exóticos de la Lucha Libre: Subverted Masculinity in Cassandro
The lyrics of Celia Cruz’s “Yo viviré” rhythmically play out above a brightly lit luchador ring in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico in the beginning...
May 22, 20245 min read


“LatinX Marks the Wound and Space for Collective Healing”
I want to highlight how artists across the U.S. cross ethno-national borders to heal together.
May 22, 20244 min read
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