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I promise that it is possible to demand better Latinx representation in the media without being anti-black. Emmy nominations were announced earlier this week and though the nominations were more diverse than I’ve see before, there was an evident lack of Latinx representation. In a year where we had Pose, One Day at a Time,…
You had me at Sara Bareilles. It only took a few minutes into the first episode of Apple TV’s new gem of a TV show, for me to fall head over heels in love with it. Little Voice follows Bess (Brittany O’Grady), an aspiring singer-songwriter trying to make it in New York. Sure, a familiar…
All of my fiction writing revolves around my identity as a bisexual Mexican-American woman. My dreams revolve around the fact that I want to make a statement about who I am and who my people are. Truthfully, up until recently, it all felt a bit impossible. I kept feeling like I was writing into the…
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…
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…
I’m certain that my love for the dramatic came from the endless afternoons that I spent in front of a television screen completely hypnotized by the telenovelas of the late 90’s and early 2000’s. Novelas are LATINX soap operas and truthfully, my favorite kind of cheesy content. I discovered what love was from them, I…
This month marks the 25th Anniversary of FRIENDS and as such, the internet is being bombarded with articles, merchandise, pop-up events and enough FRIENDS content for the next 25 years. Though plenty are excited to celebrate this TV show, the conversations surrounding it have also brought up some great points. The main one being: FRIENDS…
As we all emotionally prepare for Season 2 of Mayans MC, Kurt Sutter has hit us with some news. If picked up for a third season, Kurt Sutter plans to take a step back from his creator role and allow his co-creator Elgin James to take control of the story. He’ll continue to be involved…
So picture this: Mercury is in retrograde, your PMS comes early, your depression decides to show up and you know what you have? The worst July of your life. Euphoria has quickly become my latest obsession and while Zendaya and the rest of the cast has blown my mind the entire series, it was on…
The entire season 2 of Vida is now live on Hulu and I can officially guarantee that it’s worth spending an entire weekend on it. I’m not saying that I’m happy I spent all that time on the couch, I’m just saying that it was for the best. This new season of Vida gave me…