Álvaro Díaz is the Baby-Faced Cherub of the Latin Trap World
Álvaro Díaz is the Baby-Faced Cherub of the Latin Trap World
Álvaro Díaz is watching you. To be fair, he’s watching everybody. Díaz, the 31-year-old rapper and lyricist who hails from San Juan, Puerto Rico, is chronically observant. This becomes clear as he stares back at me from across the Zoom screen. Díaz is all ears, which is a good disposition [...]
Proem by Octavio Paz
Proem by Octavio Paz
Proem By Octavio Paz At times poetry is the vertigo of bodies and the vertigo of speech and the vertigo of death; the walk with eyes closed along the edge of the cliff, and the verbena in submarine gardens; the laughter that sets on [...]
Dior Rodriguez and Camila Falquez Present The Second Edition of “The Land of Milk and Honey”
Dior Rodriguez and Camila Falquez Present The Second Edition of “The Land of Milk and Honey”
Dior Rodriguez alongside Spanish, Mexican & Colombian photographer Camila Falquez debut a collection of photos and a short film celebrating Latin dance and music through the lens of what it means to be Black and of Hispanic and Latin descent. This collection marks the second edition of The Land of Milk [...]
Gigi Saul Guerrero is Horror’s “Muñeca del Terror”
Gigi Saul Guerrero is Horror’s “Muñeca del Terror”
Featured image courtesy of Amazon Studios When Mexican-Canadian filmmaker Gigi Saul Guerrero was just seven years old, she visited a Blockbuster in Mexico City and discretely plucked a “Child’s Play 2” VHS off the shelf, careful not to let her mom see. Chucky, the demonic doll, glared menacingly on the [...]
“Okupas” Serves as a Time Capsule of Argentina Pre-Economic Collapse
“Okupas” Serves as a Time Capsule of Argentina Pre-Economic Collapse
Earlier this year, the Argentine TV series “Okupas” was re-released on Netflix. Originally airing from October through December of 2000, right before Argentina descended into a dire economic crisis in 2001, “Okupas” follows Ricardo, a middle-class twenty-four-year old who has just dropped out of medical school. In the first episode [...]
Dancer Camila Arroyo and Designer Sabrina Ol Visualize a Contemporary Soldadera
Dancer Camila Arroyo and Designer Sabrina Ol Visualize a Contemporary Soldadera
"Soldaderas" is a collaboration and co-production between fashion designer Sabrina Olivera and dancer Camila Arroyo. Sabrina recently launched her fashion brand Sabrina Ol with a collection conceived as a homage to the Soldaderas, the women fighters of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. Both creatives met soon after the launch and [...]
a remix for remembrance by Kristiana Rae Colón
a remix for remembrance by Kristiana Rae Colón
a remix for remembrance By Kristiana Rae Colón For my students This is for the boys whose bedrooms are in the basement, who press creases into jeans, who carve their names in pavement, the girls whose names are ancient, ancestry is sacred, the Aztec and the Mayan gods abuela [...]