New Music Picks: Carla Morrison, Natti Natasha, Olga Tañón and More
New Music Picks: Carla Morrison, Natti Natasha, Olga Tañón and More
Welcome to LATINA’s weekly roundup of the best new music. This week’s list features new music from Carla Morrison, Lele Pon's blast from the past with Guaynaa, and Natti Natasha's heartfelt song. Also on the list: Olga Tañón post-breakup anthem “La Vida Da Vuelta,” Bad Gyal breakthrough with “Chulo,” and [...]
Friday Film Roundup: Evil Dead Rise, Beau is Afraid, Carmen, and More
Friday Film Roundup: Evil Dead Rise, Beau is Afraid, Carmen, and More
Welcome to LATINA’s Film Fridays, our bi-weekly picks for the exciting new film releases on our radar. With a horror film, a military film, a biopic, a musical, and an action romcom all coming out on the same day, there really is something for everyone this weekend. The biggest release, [...]
Conversaciones on Queerness: Georgel
Conversaciones on Queerness: Georgel
Mexican singer Georgel pivoted from a successful songwriting career for many of Latin pop’s biggest stars such as Gloria Trevi, to a R&B solo debut “Meteorito” in 2018. With an oeuvre referencing past, future, nature, his marriage, and even his daughter, Georgel is a proudly gay artist who wants to [...]
Conversaciones on Queerness: Niña Dioz
Conversaciones on Queerness: Niña Dioz
Soy quien la gente ve rara, La que rompe con la caja … La bruja, guerrera, la que siente que no encaja … Monterrey-raised Niña Dioz has a knack for standing out. Pale with diminutive features and fiercely masc energy, Niña Dioz is a gay rapper in Mexico’s machista hip-hop [...]
Conversaciones on Queerness: San Cha
Conversaciones on Queerness: San Cha
Mexican-American San Cha is a Los Angeles based singer-songwriter known for her explosive voice — one that carries on the traditional gravitas of Mexico’s greatest mariachi and bolero dames, such as Chavela Vargas and Lola Beltran. On stage, her persona radiates an undeniable contemporaneity that blends drag femme grandeur and [...]
Vaginal Davis: Genderqueer Godmother of the Queercore Movement
Vaginal Davis: Genderqueer Godmother of the Queercore Movement
Since the late 1970s, genderqueer artist, filmmaker, performer, and curator Vaginal Davis has indelibly shaped the underground art and music scenes through “low-cost, high impact” genres of club performances, queer zines, and experimental film and video productions. Through her art, Davis has sought to disrupt and question the social norms [...]
SXSW Award Winner Nuevo Rico’s Psychedelic Visions of Latinx Futurism
SXSW Award Winner Nuevo Rico’s Psychedelic Visions of Latinx Futurism
Puerto Rican Filmmaker Kristian Mercado Figueroa sat down with Alissa Lopez Serfozo to discuss his new short animated film, “Nuevo Rico,” which recently won a jury award at the SXSW film festival. Conceived as a piece of Latinx Futurism, the dystopian short is rendered in a vibrant vapor-wave palette of [...]