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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?
Jun 224 min read


The Gentle Flame: Milio's Healing Fire and the Power of Latinx Representation in League of Legends
League of Legends breaks mold of traditional fire-affinities by introducing Milio, infusing Latinx representation to the game.
Mar 304 min read


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


Another Side of History: Review of David Dorado Romo’s Borderlands and the Mexican American Story
Another Side of History breaks down the hegemonic door that has tried to shut out complexities of Mexican American and borderland history.
Mar 123 min read


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


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


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


Monsters, Middle School & Mayhem: A Dive into Jorge Aguirre & Andrés Vera Martínez's Monster Locker
A knockout graphic novel, Aguirre’s brilliantly crafted Monster Locker bursts to life with Vera Martínez’s gorgeous illustrations.
Jan 72 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.
Dec 15, 20244 min read


Have No Fear, Venture is Here!
The first trans non-binary archaeologist Sloan Cameron AKA Venture (they/them) pops out with their drill and dream!
Dec 5, 20242 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.
Dec 4, 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
Oct 28, 20245 min read


Marcello Hernández: Latin King of SNL
Hernández’s comedy has come from his culture, family traditions, and poking fun at stereotypes.
Oct 25, 20242 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!
Oct 13, 20244 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


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


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


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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