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Allen Stone just dropped the feel-good album of 2019 and I can officially guarantee that kicking off the day with Building Balance will be the perfect beginning to your week. Allen Stone was an unexpected discovery. Little did I know that the opening act at the Al Green concert in 2012, would go on to…
TW: sexual assault It took me a few weeks to finish Unbelievable on Netflix. The show tells the complicated true story of a young woman who was raped in the middle of the night. The police department in charge of her investigation completely failed her and if it weren’t for a different police department, in…
Brittany Runs A Marathon is body-positivity done right. We meet Brittany when she’s an overweight, hard-partying and care-free woman living in New York. A visit to the doctor’s office forces her to start making some life changes and those life changes lead her to make the decision to run a marathon. I mean, we’ve all…
I hate to sound cliche but: Harry Styles is back and he’s better than ever. Harry’s new single ‘Lights Up’ was released a few minutes ago and it’s already trending on Twitter and the music video has about 500,000 views on YouTube (and counting). Full disclosure: I am responsible for at least half of those…
Based on a true story, Elisa y Marcela tells the story of the first same-sex marriage (on record) that occurred in Spain. On June 8, 1901 Elisa Sánchez Loriga pretended to be a man and married her girlfriend Marcela Gracia Ibeas. The film, currently streaming on Netflix, captures the love in this story wholeheartedly. Director,…
A feel-good movie if I’ve ever seen one, I found myself widely smiling throughout the entirety of The Peanut Butter Falcon. The film follows Zak (Zack Gottsagen), a 22-year-old young man with Down Syndrome, as he escapes the residential nursing home that he’s been living in; he attempts to make his way to a wrestling…
Today is my Birthday. 30 rides around the sun. See, the thing about depression is that it doesn’t care if it’s your 30th birthday, it’s still going to make you fight your way out of its depths. So here I am on the morning of my 30th birthday and wondering how quickly I can crawl…
I’ve never been much of a norteño music fan and I’m sure that my therapist will tell you that it’s because my father used to listen to it. However, I’ve recently found myself appreciating the genre a lot more. For Day 9 of my LATINX Heritage Month Series, I will like to discuss the norteño…
Emmy Award Winner: Jharrel Jerome Jharrel Jerome is the first Afro-Latino Actor to win an Emmy for Acting. Doesn’t that sentence kind of take your breath away? I first witnessed his talent when he portrayed young Kevin in Moonlight and I fell in love with his talent when I watched him play Korey Wise in…
When I was younger I stayed away from Latin music, it was one of the many ways that I pushed my culture away. Though as hard as I tried, I couldn’t escape it. My mother cleaned to Juan Gabriel, my tia cried to Pimpinela, my other tia danced to Chayanne and my father drank to…