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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…
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…
When I heard that Jennifer Lopez, Constance Wu, Cardi B and Keke Palmer were about to be in a movie together, I knew that I would soon be in a movie theater having the time of my life. Hustlers is a movie based on a New York Magazine article about former-stripper and savvy entrepreneur, Rosie….
I don’t like being late to the party (figuratively speaking of course, because I literally will always be late) so when something becomes popular before I discover it, my pretentious side will do everything in its power to stay away from it. I famously (famously, in my friend group) stayed away from Sam Smith because…
A voice for the people. Reymar Perdomo is using her voice to speak up for the people of Venezuela and her song, “Me Fui” is quickly becoming an anthem for the immigration crisis. Perdomo and thousands like her, fled Venezuela in hopes of better opportunities. In 2017 Reymar made her way to Peru in search…
September 15 to October 15 marks LATINX Heritage month. LATINX by definition is a person of Latin American origin or descent (used as a gender-neutral or nonbinary alternative to Latino or Latina). In celebration of the month I will be sharing a LATINX creator every day on this website and on my social media accounts…
I have been trying to watch Tigers Are Not Afraid since it’s limited theater release a few weeks ago. Yet, the theater schedule and The Universe absolutely conspired against me and things kept impeding me from watching the film. So imagine my absolute delight when I discovered that I could enjoy the film on Shudder…