Although this collective story of success for Black and brown members of the LGBTQ+ community — mostly Black trans women — is constantly evolving and accredited through shows like FX’sPoseand VH1’sRuPaul’s Drag Race,the violence against and thetragic deaths of members of these communities, ...
“Because the word was in regular use at that time,” Bowles says, “it was kind of this way of reclaiming the slur and using it for a political Latinx identity.” 'Latinx' Emerges as Gender-Neutral Term Spanish is a gendered language. If there is a group made up of women, they can...
Latinx Heritage Month is celebrated between September 15 and October 15 each year. To honor the occasion, we’ve rounded up new and upcoming 2020 books by Latinx authors for your TBR. These books represent a very small selection of the large body of incredible work done by Latinx authors, a...
In films like these, we find men and women, alone in their individualism, trying to find someone to make a new, tiny nuclear family with (and often repeating tired gender dynamics along the way).Thankfully, that's starting to change. This year, we saw not one but two made-for-tv ...
The Directors Guild of America’s latest breakdown of TV director employment shows major gains for women and for Black helmers overall but the numbers also spotlight the systemic lack of movement for Latinx and female directors of color.The share of TV episodes directed by women during the 2019...
Mónica Ramírez, the founder of Justice for Migrant Women and Esperanza: The Immigrant Women’s Legal Initiative of the Southern Poverty Law Center, got the idea for the letter in the aftermath of the Mississippi ICE raids on Aug. 7. That day and the day following, she reached out to La...
There were also no lead female actresses nominated, despite several of them being on amazing shows including Gina Rodriguez in “Jane The Virgin,” Stephanie Beatriz in “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” and America Ferrera in “Superstore.” John Leguizamo — who was nominated for Supporting Actor In A Lim...
for LGBTQ+ folks within Latinx communities, there's still a ways to go for the culture and Latin music industry as a whole—more needs to be done to dismantle themachismothat has historically put down women and queer people and continues to inhabit the industry. Since Ricky Martin’s coming...
Whenever I was introduced to someone new, I tried to make it clear that I was multiracial to explain my inadequacies: I didn’t listen to the same music, watch the same shows, or understand many cultural references. A lifetime of invasive questions in the suburbs had prepared me for ...
like insecurities that are personal and local. But Crucet’s experience shows that the feeling of being an outsider can remain even at a professorial level. Even when you’re talking about an award-winning book at a university. Even for a young writer, seeing the odds are not in your favo...