Latinidad

This Easter Sunday you should only see abuelita through the computer screen

Through humor, heart-warming relationships, and fearlessness to address the pain of everyday struggles, Gentefied renders a compelling narrative, which ultimately says, we see you, we know you’re here. Let’s get to work.  

Following nationwide call to action in the wake of AMERICAN DIRT, published by Macmillan/Flatiron, activists denounce the “Big Five” for publishing only 300 Latino books out of 300,000 published each year.

Latino Rebels Radio: February 23, 2020

The podcast will be hosted by actress Dascha Polanco, and each week she will be “talk to Latinos in Hollywood who are making space for our communities to see ourselves, in all our complexity.”

Just another night in Vegas.

Latino Rebels Radio: February 16, 2020

We are writing you in the context of your book club’s widely-promoted “all sides” discussion on American Dirt in Tucson being recorded on Thursday, February 13th.

I blame it on the “thought matrix,” and a thought matrix is difficult to pull yourself out of.

There are no mindless or unbiased witnesses. There are different kinds of witnesses whose witnessing varies within an action scenario.

Latino Rebels Radio: February 9, 2020.

As someone who studies the publishing business, I see this ordeal as a symptom of an industry that relies far too heavily on a handful of predetermined “big books,” and whose gatekeepers remain predominantly white.

The after-party for opening night of QUIXOTE NUEVO at The Alley Theatre is the perfect metaphor for the love that great art can create when its presented right and when it respects our community.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Celebrated Mexican American author Sandra Cisneros is refusing to back down from her support for the novel, “American Dirt,” despite outcry from other Latino writers amid charges of stereotypes, and is telling critics they should just calm down and write “poetry.”

If art is an expression of the artist, Raúl Pizarro’s work can best be described as a multidimensional evolution. Living with a form of Muscular Dystrophy, Pizarro reinvents his painting techniques with each physical challenge brought on by the various stages of muscle loss.

“We have moved our focus from Jeanine Cummins and American Dirt to the true problem: the canceling of Latinx writers by US publishing,” the statement read.

Nietzsche warned me about gazing too long into the abyss, but I didn’t listen. It gazed back into me.

I don’t exactly remember how it came to be, but Dennis was my barber for several years, until he unexpectedly passed away at the much-too-young age of 38. 

In this conversation, Cristela Alonzo gets personal about the shame she felt about poverty as a child, how the singer Selena Quintanilla inspired her and she shares personal stories from her new memoir.

When I think about the mom I met in Juárez, I think about Juan Diego.

“I come from poverty, from El Caserío Padre Rivera… It was a world of men, of violence, a place too often not safe for women and girls,” Jaquira Díaz writes in the introduction of her new book.