"Oh, I auditioned for that show, but I heard they were going ethnic." Imagine sitting at a table with other women in the acting industry and hearing this, knowing you were the "ethnic hire". This was Stephanie Beatriz's reality when she landed the role of Rosa Diaz on Brooklyn Nine-Nine. She recounts this uncomfortable memory on the More Better  podcast she co-hosts with Melissa Fumero. Perhaps the woman meant to say, "I'm happy to see more representation on television"—at l

oday’s white-optic televisual landscape teems with what I call white-regenerative narratives—stories in which worn-out, broken, or morally adrift white dudes are reinvigorated through contact with Brown suffering.

In science fiction shows and films, there is an erasure of brown subjects that renders them as collateral  damage, too incompatible with advanced technology which leads to them doing ‘lesser work’, as well as perpetually "alien". As we look at season 2 and season 3 in Umbrella Academy, we see the concepts of Chicanafuturism and Afrofuturism play out through the stories of Diego and Allison Hargreeves.

Werewolves get a bad rap. But is that the whole story? What happens when Latino representation enters the mix?

In You, violence against women of color is graphic, emotional, and final.

The Originals: a lens through which we can explore the lasting impacts of colonial legacies and complexitities of mestizo subjectivities.

Review article that explores the roles Latina actor Gina Rodriguez has played

One Day at a Time points to a shift in tide in Latinx representation in popular culture.