Remembering My Family’s Stolen Land
Remembering My Family’s Stolen Land
As a child growing up in a large Mexican-American family, I heard countless tales of new beginnings, adventures, reunions, losses, and joys from my older relatives. The context for nearly every story was the border town of Brownsville – Texas’s southernmost city – where my parents and grandparents were born [...]
How to Treat Your Eczema, According to Latina Dermatology Pros
How to Treat Your Eczema, According to Latina Dermatology Pros
Tucked away in the far right corner of my bathroom sits the last tube of ointment prescribed by my dermatologist to soothe my eczema. That was over a year ago, marking the longest period of time I have gone without a flare-up. My skin has been thriving despite the twenty-something [...]
Treat Yourself With These 10 Gifts For Valentine’s Day
Treat Yourself With These 10 Gifts For Valentine’s Day
The relationship you have with yourself is the most important. Yet when it comes to the very romantic day of the year, Valentine’s Day, we automatically embrace the holiday with open arms as a time to spoil a significant other with a present that reflects our attentiveness to the relationship. [...]
20 Latin-Owned Holiday Gifts for Any and All Beauty Lovers
20 Latin-Owned Holiday Gifts for Any and All Beauty Lovers
For the Latin community, Navidad begins as a beautiful banquet full of Buñuelos, Croquettes, Natilla, Arroz con Leche, y mas, as we wait for the clock to strike 12 so we can officially get to unwrapping. You know how that goes. Christmas Eve or Noche Buena is our official Christmas [...]
Two Latina Therapists on the Importance of Prioritizing Mental Health
Two Latina Therapists on the Importance of Prioritizing Mental Health
Since 1949, the month of May has been designated to Mental Health Awareness. In the midst of the recent school shooting in Uvalde, the ongoing war in Ukraine and the ever-present pandemic, it has become increasingly important to check in on our mental health. As the month comes to an [...]
Raul Lopez Chose to Defy The Odds
Raul Lopez Chose to Defy The Odds
For Raul Lopez, the designer and founder behind LUAR's namesake fashion brand (Raul spelled backward), success boils down to community — the chosen family beyond parents and siblings. Community isn't just buying merch or showing up to rallies with signs. For people like Lopez — born, raised and currently [...]
How Michelle Badillo Defied Her Own Barriers
How Michelle Badillo Defied Her Own Barriers
When Michelle Badillo reluctantly agreed to attend college, she told her mother that she would become a screenwriter. Badillo had the intention of alarming her mother; she did not anticipate that her mother would fully support her decision and pay for it, too. “I was an idiot,” Badillo laughs from [...]