Gloria Calderón Kellett is Ushering in a New Golden Age of Latino Television
Gloria Calderón Kellett is Ushering in a New Golden Age of Latino Television
This profile is based on an interview between Gloria Calderón Kellett and Alissa Lopez Serfozo. For someone who just signed an eight-figure deal with Amazon Studios, Gloria Calderón Kellett seems mostly unfazed. More concerned with impressing her parents than anybody in a boardroom, the compulsively busy multi-hyphenate, whose latest original [...]
America Ferrera’s Evolution
America Ferrera’s Evolution
On Twenty Years in Hollywood and Creating Stories by Latinos for Latinos America Ferrera has catapulted herself to mainstream success by making the most ordinary characters seem all but ordinary. She has played the roles of teenage girl on the cusp of college-age adulthood, big-box store employee, and overworked assistant, [...]
PATRON Gallery Founders Are Forging an Atypical Path in the Rigid Art Market Terrain
PATRON Gallery Founders Are Forging an Atypical Path in the Rigid Art Market Terrain
It’s not an easy thing to sell art — something so ineffable, so personal, so often useless in the pragmatic sense of the word — while truly supporting those who make it as they pursue their craft. But that’s exactly what Julia Fischbach and Emanuel Aguilar set out to do [...]
A Brief History of Lingerie
A Brief History of Lingerie
From corsets to Calvin Klein. In the realm of sartorial expression, lingerie can feel a bit oxymoronic. For one, it’s typically designed to live under your clothes...which feels contradictory to the whole project of fashion (fashions without exhibitionism??!). Moreover, in practice, we often put it on expressly to...take off. Sure, technically you also take [...]
NYC’s Afro-Latino Festival Founder Mai-Elka Prado Is Making Space for Herself
NYC’s Afro-Latino Festival Founder Mai-Elka Prado Is Making Space for Herself
After almost 10 years of working behind the scenes, Mai-Elka Prado is taking the stage for the first time. Prado is the founder and creative director of the Afro-Latino Festival, an annual celebration that pays tribute to the African roots of Latin American and Caribbean people. Through a series of [...]
How Astronauts Masturbate in Space
How Astronauts Masturbate in Space
If the landing module’s a-rockin’, don’t come a-knockin.’ Officially, nobody has ever had sex in space. What about solo sex, though? It’s not something NASA has ever been particularly keen to talk about, but certain things can be figured out based on how the rest of the body is treated [...]
The Intimate History of the Butt Plug
The Intimate History of the Butt Plug
From the early depictions to the FDA. Nobody knows when the first human looked at a butthole and thought, “Maybe I could stick something in that.” It almost certainly happened a very long time ago though—there are depictions of anal sex dating back pretty much as long as there has [...]