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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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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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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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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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Hacienda Caras in Barbielandia: America Ferrera’s Latina Resistance in Barbie
Brown Optic Barbielandia is a space where multiracial female solidarity mobilizes intervention
Mar 189 min read
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Deep Dive into Character: A Review of Melissa Coss Aquino's Novel, Carmen & Grace
With her evocative storytelling, Melissa Coss Aquino turns a story about two cousin-turned-sisters dealing drugs into a character study.
Mar 45 min read
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Review of My Side of the River: A Memoir by Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez
My Side of the River is more than a memoir it is a reminder of how stories can heal, connect, and inspire.
Mar 44 min read
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Resisting the Future in Fernando A. Flores’ Novel, Brother Brontë!
Fernando Flores’s Brother Brontë--a novel that delves into the power of literature and the transformative role of storytelling.
Mar 13 min read
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Afro-Latina Identity: A Review of Natasha Alford's American Negra: A Memoir
American Negra: A Memoir brings attention to the issues of Afro-Latinidad with Hispanic/Latinx communities.
Mar 14 min read
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Living Beyond Borders: A Vibrant Mosaic of Mexican-American Stories for Young Readers
Every story offers the reader a different perspective on the young Chicanx experience.
Jan 253 min read
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"Poetry to Praxis: Yesenia Moya & Community Art Resistance in Southern Nevada"
"Son de Mi Ser" exhibit Challenges inarticulation and settler colonialism
Dec 3, 20244 min read
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Sol Naciente: Lucha Libre Por Vida!
Sol Naciente reminds us to never underestimate the fire that burns within.
Nov 18, 20242 min read
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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
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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
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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
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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
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