Lina Light is Raising Her Voice for Multiple Sclerosis
Lina Light is Raising Her Voice for Multiple Sclerosis
Angelina Cubero was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 2020, but had been experiencing symptoms for almost a decade prior. “Now, I'm able to look back and piece it together and be like, ‘maybe it started here’ or ‘maybe it started then,’ and it can go as far back to [...]
Thalia Revisits Rock en Español With the Genre’s Icons in ‘Mixtape’
Thalia Revisits Rock en Español With the Genre’s Icons in ‘Mixtape’
Thalia is taking us back in time to the rock en español era. The Mexican pop icon revisits that important movement in Latin music in her new series Thalia's Mixtape: El Soundtrack De Mi Vida. Members of legendary rock bands from Soda Stereo, Hombres G, and Aterciopelados help her record [...]
The Provocative Opus of Panamanian-American Director Janicza Bravo
The Provocative Opus of Panamanian-American Director Janicza Bravo
In Janicza Bravo’s world, a Lynch-esque reality exists on a “planet just next to ours.” Among her many characters, we see a frantic blond woman who loses her phone and spirals into a dark hole of suicidal depression and paranoia on the day of her birthday; a racist, paraplegic young [...]
Lina Hidalgo Can’t be Stopped
Lina Hidalgo Can’t be Stopped
For Judge Lina Hidalgo of Harris County, Texas, the work is never done. Wearing a navy suit and a matching floral face mask, ringed by her signature crop of black curls, the top elected official of the nation’s third-largest county announced the grim news in early August: the Houston-area COVID-19 [...]
U.S. Life Expectancy Drops: Latinos Most Affected
U.S. Life Expectancy Drops: Latinos Most Affected
Life expectancy in the United States fell 1.5 years in 2020, and declined even more for members of the Latinx community, according to a recent report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The decline represents the sharpest life expectancy fall in a single year since World War II. [...]
What Olympic Medalist Laurie Hernandez Learned During the Pandemic
What Olympic Medalist Laurie Hernandez Learned During the Pandemic
Laurie Hernandez is an all-star athlete and has been since she was a kid. At age 16, she became a two-time Olympic medalist in gymnastics for her performance with the U.S. team in the 2016 Rio Olympics. That same year, she became the youngest contestant to win the hit tv [...]
Solace to Lead Workshop in BIPOC Self Defense
Solace to Lead Workshop in BIPOC Self Defense
Photographer/director Natalia Mantini and designer/web-developer Lizette Ayala founded Solace to address the lack of practical resources available for marginalized folks, particularly within the realms of mental health support, healing, and wellness. Solace is designed to be a digital friend, connecting marginalized folks to therapy, meditation, care, healers, podcasts, and now, workshops. [...]