Friday Film Roundup: Air, Super Mario Bros, Dungeons and Dragons, and More
Friday Film Roundup: Air, Super Mario Bros, Dungeons and Dragons, and More
Welcome to LATINA’s Friday Film Roundup, our bi-weekly picks for the new movie releases on our radar. This week’s biggest release, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, is already on track to becoming one of the year’s most successful movies. Not to be lost among several new big-name blockbusters are [...]
Along a Deadly Journey, These Mexican Women Give Hope to U.S.- Bound Migrants
Along a Deadly Journey, These Mexican Women Give Hope to U.S.- Bound Migrants
From hunger to human trafficking, migrants from Latin America traveling by land to the United States face innumerable challenges in hopes of securing a better future. However, along the harrowing and often deadly journey, a beacon of hope glimmers in the town of La Patrona, Veracruz, Mexico. This tiny town, [...]
Skincare Maestra Andrea Ámez on Self-Love and Beauty Myths
Skincare Maestra Andrea Ámez on Self-Love and Beauty Myths
Melanated Skin Care Godmother/Goddess/Glow-up Maestra Andrea Ámez sat down with Alissa Lopez Serfozo to talk skin, beauty standards, and self-love. Here are 4 takeaways from the eye-opening conversation. Uno. In our digital age of Facetune and filters, unpacking stigmas in beauty and skincare is an important aspect of mental wellbeing. Andrea [...]
Becoming Kali Uchis
Becoming Kali Uchis
Kali Uchis wasn’t always a sultry singer, enticing viewers on Jimmy Fallon's “Tonight Show.” She didn’t always wear white coquette dresses or cute miniskirts. Nor did she always sensually slide her body across stage floors, singing “quien lo diria, que se podría hacer el amor [...]
Tiffany Alfonseca Pays Homage in Painting
Tiffany Alfonseca Pays Homage in Painting
Bronx-based and Dominican-American artist Tiffany Alfonseca reflects on the Afro-Latinx experience through her bold and vibrant works. As a mixed media artist, Tiffany combines acrylic paint, charcoal, and glitter for her creations, breathing life into the two-dimensional art form through texture and depth. She draws inspiration from her own background [...]
Embracing the Beauty of My Rizos
Embracing the Beauty of My Rizos
Growing up, my curls were a point of pain. My own culture glamorized straight hair, and at school, I was made fun of. I was called “Puff Ball,” “Frizz Puff,” names that drove me to believe that my hair was in fact, ugly. “Pelo malo.” Millions of women, including Latinas, [...]
“The Empress is a Man”: The Drag Royalty of José Julio Sarria
“The Empress is a Man”: The Drag Royalty of José Julio Sarria
“There’s nothing wrong in playing dress-up. We have men who have waited, we have women who have waited until they’ve been almost dead to think about dressing up. I did not have that much time, I dressed.” –José Sarria, 1997 The biography of political activist and legendary drag artist José [...]