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I have realized how the trauma of domestic violence has affected my dating life. I am now actively learning how to heal and how to be intent...
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Representation, Action and Determination.
That is exactly what Sony’s new action-packed film MISS BALA is all about.
The film starrin...
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There is a cost to being a female consumer not just in the United States but global as brands get more savvier about approaching us, mujeres...
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You saw the reports, the news on ´millennial burnout´ and whether it stands true for you or not, busting your nalgas at work and/or play mig...
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For Latinx/People of Color - having student loans to repay can be a severe ‘debt sentence’ that impacts us more than our non-POC peers.
T...
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You have your planner, maybe you purchased the HDTM one...jotted down your S.M.A.R.T jefa goals for this year and you are fired up, baby!
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If there is anyone more stressed out during the holidays it is us - mujeres.
The holidays bring on the happy, but also the saddies ...
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Three years ago, then 14-year-old Renata Flores Rivera surprised Latin America with her Quechua cover of Michael Jackson’s “The Way You Mak...
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This year has been a political and societal roller coaster of emotions. The pressure to vote, particularly for young people, comes with a se...
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It's Latina Equal Pay Day and just like Cardi B all we want to see is the Money!
It has been 55 years since the passing of the Equal Pay ...
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Originated published on Guerilla Feminist
I am the first in the my family to do a lot of things, like go to college and get a gr...
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Earlier this week, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announced that they are pregnant with their first child. Last week, Adrienne Bailon shared...
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Despite the sexual assault accusations against him, Brett Kavanaugh was sworn in as Supreme Court Justice on Saturday. By a close margin vot...
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Movies that depict Latino culture authentically are hard to come by which is why SHINE caught our attention with an entertainment value as w...
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Do you ever get up in the morning and say, “I really do not want to go to work today” or when you get to work you say, “Wow, I am a mess”—Yo...
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The midterm elections are fast approaching and it seems that women are at the forefront of not only the amount of female candidates this yea...
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There’s a scene in the “Diary of A Mad Black Woman” where the main character, Helen, rejects a man attempting to flirt with her at a family ...
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In recent years, we’re seeing more women dominate the sports world. From Serena Williams (who can arguably be the best athlete in the world)...
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I think a lot about what it meant to grow up idealizing my future husband. Recently, I sat with a friend and we spoke about how similar our ...
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Social media and online media apps have drastically changed the way we interact with others, not only in a social setting but on a deeper le...
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In a world where the Latino community continues to be underrepresented in the big screen, with fewer than 7 percent of Latinos staring in ma...
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There’s a reason why society expected women to stay at home, raise the children and care for the family and why it expected men to go into t...
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Since the #MeToo movement and Time Magazine’s Person of the Year 2017 issue featuring the “silence breakers”, the public has seen multitude ...
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Starting a business from scratch is one of the most challenging things on earth to do! Luckily, there is help and resources more than ever t...
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I used to be terrified of dogs.
Whenever I would see a dog, no matter the size, training, breed, or your incessant affirmations that he i...
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In April, the Nicaraguan people, particularly college students, began leading the country into a series of small protests in an effort to de...
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We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking about our money. It will require you to level up a bit, add discipline and hab...
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If you live in New York and enjoy its endless and eclectic nightlife, chances are, you know DJ Riobamba. Sara Skolnick, the Ecuadorian-Lithu...
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When I was 19 years old I had an abortion. Very few people know.
Now you know too.
I was in a college psychology class when I got the ...
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I haven’t been feeling like myself lately. Actually, I haven’t been recognizing much of anything, lately. The world today looks more like a ...
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If there is anything women should be informed about is the Supreme Court or SCOTUS decisions that could potential impact or threaten our qua...
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Pride can be so intimidating, loud, and appear to be something so fearless, yet some of us are not there yet, are not in a safe space to “co...
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Step aside, women of color aren’t waiting ‘for our turn’ to take over the archaic, ‘grey suited’ seats that are no longer working for the Un...
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By now you have seen the photograph of a two-year old immigrant, Honduran asylum seeker crying hysterically as the toddler and her mother we...
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I sat in my apartment “studying” for finals listening to music and drinking tequila with friends when someone played, “Que falta me hace mi ...
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"Well, somebody’s doing the raping, Don! I mean somebody's doing it! Who’s doing the raping? Who’s doing the raping?" Trump exclaimed on CNN...
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Harmonia Rosales is an Afro-Cubana, Chicagoan and artist who does one thing we can totally get behind – she ‘flips the art canvas script’ li...
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Self-identifying Latinas make up only 1% of the technology workforce at large technology corporations like Google, Facebook, Twitter, to nam...
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When I read about the murder of Claudia Patricia Gómez González, I felt a chilling mix of anger and numbness. A young woman seeking a better...
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I know we are a powerful community. I look at my immigrant mother, who came to this country with three children and only her native tongue, ...
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For communities of color, weed has been a business but more recently, more and more state governments are legalizing marijuana- incorporatin...
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Two black men walked into a Philadelphia Starbucks store, sat down to have a conversation while waiting for a friend, without an order of co...
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It's been ours to begin with...the great outdoors... from playa to mountains, but plain and simple, people of color/Latinx and women have no...
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Latinas are especially vulnerable to developing eating disorders because of our cultural mores, our oppressed social conditions and generati...
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There are movies that forever shaped us, changed us, and stuck with us.
We all have our top 5, but the truth of the matter is that there i...
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My grandmother tells me that when I was young, I used to deny being Peruvian and claim to be only American. The family used to consider my c...
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Now That I Have Found Myself I Have Also Found My Voice.
Here lately I have been talking a lot about the AfroLatina experience. Not just an...
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A New Film Sheds Light On Dolores Huerta's Significant Untold Contribution From Creating 'Si Se Puede' Message to Organizing
One of the nat...
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Ready for this...MAC is releasing AaliyahForMAC beauty collection in June of this year. You can lose your shit now!
MAC ann...
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This has been one epic Women's History Month. Among the highlights, the Women's March and more recently, real-time cause to action formatio...
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Throughout the many years of terror attacks, the United States has endured this last decade, the majority of the carnage is at the hands of ...
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Earlier this year, the Why We Wear Black movement stirred up awareness and conversation around sexual harassment in Hollywood by bringing it...
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BoldLatina came across 27 year old Laura "LOUDA" Raquel Camacho on Facebook and instant fandom it was! Louda most recently contributed her s...
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By the time, a young female professional turns 30 is it likely that she will be very unhappy and burned out. Don't let that be you! Here, at...
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'Illegally WOMAN' as featured in 'Timeless Tales, True Edition' by Vincent Miller featuring Thalia Edwards Available on Amazon
Also avail...
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Kim Kardashian showed off her latest hairdo: Fulani braids, inspired by Fulani women of East or West African. Except, in traditional Kardas...
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The 60th GRAMMY Awards are upon us, and we, at BoldLatina, are ready to see Luis Fonsi perform, as well as the rest of our Brown and Black p...
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This year nearly 2 million marchers showed up included Latinx/women of color combined. BoldLatina asked many of you to tag us, #boldlatinasm...
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Women's March 2018 is upon us, happening this Saturday, January 20th all over the nation. Women and allies in solidarity will rally on the s...
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The culinary world, often dominated by male figures, is slowly, but surely changing its landscape thanks to outstanding female chefs taking ...
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I’m not the type of person that can talk about butterflies
Butterflies roam.
Something I know nothing of.
I, on the other hand, had to le...
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Originally published on EducatedLatina.com
Did you know that an Oreo is not just Milk’s Favorite Cookie? According to UrbanDictionary...
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Long before it was deemed the devil’s work, brujeria, or witchcraft was considered a healing agent.
In some cases, royal families called on...
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Cassandra a writer in Dallas, wrote up something that so many of us can relate to. About our perfectly sounding, perhaps gringo names. Her p...
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First, we here at BoldLatina have been onto Dana Danelys De Los Santos otherwise known as 'Amara La Negra' since she was doing her thing in ...
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2017 was definitely the year of much needed call outs of sexual harassment and abuse by 'too many high power men' in the Hollywood, media an...
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2017 was the year of noise. As we tried to hold on to our sanity, some of us yelled screams of unity, resistance, protection, and rebellion....
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They teach us to be scared of those that can invade our bodies, but fail to teach us about our bodies they are trying to invade.
I wa...
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The holidays are upon us and with less than two weeks before Christmas (if you celebrate it), lots of people like me are still looking for t...
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Some time ago, in a conversation with a woman, I shared my experience as a survivor of sexual assault. To my surprise she burst into tears...
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It's not Trump, that's for sure! Apparently, there had been rumors circulating it would be him...again. Sadly, he was runner up of which Dem...
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‘Little Fat Girl’
Self Love As An Act of Survival
Reader Submission by Mase Santos,
The first image of beauty I aspired to was...
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We are consumers, early adopters, super users of the net and creators Latinx, net neutrality is one of the most important matters and social...
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We don't know about you, but the zapatos make the outfit...and can create social impact! We put a lot of thought into the styles and varieti...
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Congratulations! Your Job Loss Could Be The Kick In The Pantalones You Needed
No es bueno? Or Is it? It’s one of those experiences that mak...
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Los Angeles Declares November 3rd 'Selena Day'
It's been 22 years since Selena's passing yet every year her legendary status - La Reina's ...
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We tweeted for Latina Equal Pay Day #LatinaEqualPayDay or #Trabajadoras
Today is a day of acknowledgment and action! November 2 marks Latin...
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Dear Readers,
It's been a little quiet with SupaDaily... that's because we are undergoing ch-ch-ch-changes! Good ones because we want to st...
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Ding. Ding. “BREAKING NEWS: Trump tweets again…”
When is the last time you checked your phone, and it wasn’t a CNN, New York Times, or LA ...
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I ask my amá, “Amá porque son mudos?”
She looks at me confused.
“Que quieres? Que seamos pericos o que?”
I say, that’s not what I mean.
...
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There is no stronger connection to your ancestors than eating what they have planted and grown in their past life for you
There’s no surpri...
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An American Chicana Scholar Who Crossed Many Borders, Worlds and Lived Out 'This Place Of Contradictions'
"For a writer and scholar Gloria ...
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Lets talk about gentrified daycares.
Daycares that are for “exploring” and “sensory” and “gardening.” Set up in low-income neighbors and c...
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Raising children is an act of resistance. It is a screaming ode to the white world that there will be more of us brown and black skinned, La...
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This country needs to have a serious conversation about the hypocrisy of “Freedom of Speech”
Does the right to freedom of speech and assemb...
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The blow came twice as hard, launching Elena back through the door frame of her home, into the seasonal hell she dealt with at the hand of h...
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Dear Abby,
About a year ago from today I remember reading articles and watching news discussions about you.
As a brown girl, I rememb...
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It is my 32nd birthday this year, and I am having these deep reflections around how much I need to learn and how much I still do not know. Y...
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This weekend thousands will flock the city by the Bay for the annual Outside Lands Festival. The three-day festival which takes place at Gol...
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Dear professional white folx,
It’s time we had a discussion because ya’ll think you are off the hook, [for doing that oppressive white fo...
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Do sanctuary cities “breed crime” and does a disconnect exist with the Fed and police forces?
Thirty-eight years ago, the Chief of the Los...
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“Siri, how do I get home?”
“You need a loan?”
“No. Home.”
“Cones? There are no cones within the area, Pay-o-la”
“HOME.”
“Sorr...
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I do not live near my mami. We live a few thousand miles apart, physically, and also billions miles apart politically. I love mi mami thou...
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Before you think I am offending you by stating, “men are trash”, let me explain why that is an issue.
In the United States, we are brought...
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You will either love or hate GLOW
I have to admit that I enjoyed it, but with some reservations.
GLOW is the new Netflix original based ...
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Dear NYC,
I feel as if I have lost. I ride the J train home to Bushwick. The grey seats peel underneath my thighs, water trickles from th...
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A Birth Control “Solution” That Deepens Texas’ Contraceptive Problem
A new app now offers home delivery for some of Texas’ most isolated ar...
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It was at the age of eight when I realized who was to be my greatest adversary in life: mi mamá.
Má. Amá. Madre. Jefa. Those were your na...
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I think the most important thing that I have learned from graduate school, was that I learned to name those things that had been used agains...
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Brown girls tend to not notice themselves and what they are capable of. We become almost invisible because of the lack of representation. So...
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June is an important month for two groups currently facing scrutiny under the Trump administration; the LGBTQ and Immigrant communities.
...
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Unless you have been living under a rock, you know how the song "Despacito" has completely taken over radio airwaves, digital platforms, and...
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Here at BoldLatina, we continue to be proud of the Latinx who have graduated and of those, soon-to-be-graduates (days away) the graduation s...
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Men ain’t shit. This is not news, this is not something that I even focus my work on, but follow people like Mala and Zahira on social medi...
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I come from places where enduring inequalities is the norm. I’ve seen my mother come home exhausted after a long day of work struggling to k...
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Support your local community by volunteering at these nonprofits
The first 100 days of Trump’s administration have aggressively threatened ...
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"As woke as you may think you are, you can't be free until everyone is free" Mom. Latinx. Activist. Theologian. Unapologetically Brown.
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Mother’s Day is a beautiful day to pay particular respects to our mamis. Mother’s Day in Nicaragua is on May 30th and it is the day that my...
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Y el novio? Te vas a quedar para vestir santos, le voy a rezar a San Antonio para que te encuentre un buen novio.
Phrases commonly heard ...
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For some, this is just a piece of paper. For us, this is more than that and we are all so proud of you. This is a dedication to my hard-core...
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Less than one percent of Latinas are in computing...let that sink in a bit. "1%"
There is no question that if you were to step onto t...
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Caucacity: The audacity of white people’s belief that they’re right even against contrary evidence.
If I had a dollar for every time a Wh...
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Juan Manuel Montes, a 23-year-old from Calexico, California is the latest victim of the mass deportation agenda that Donald Trump and Jeff S...
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Constantly Being Stuck In A World Where You Are Told Anxiety And Depression Is Not Meant For You
You are not going to therapy, "eso es pa...
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I was never THAT kid who was encouraged to go to college. I was never that kid that was smarter than everyone else, that kid that shined, t...
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SPOILERS, SPOILERS AHEAD, STOP READING IF YOU ARE NOT ALL CAUGHT UP! WATCH Netflix's Part I, first! ?
Now that the warning is out of the wa...
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When Insecure debuted on HBO, women of color everywhere rejoiced, finally, a show that represented us. Was this terrific new series enough t...
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Since 2010, the 'Ovas' as they like to call themselves, have been fixing bikes, fixing each others bikes and having deep sisterhood conversa...
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Mexican actor Diego Luna has been featured in numerous articles, most of them talking about his looks, and the success of the movie Rogue On...
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Through multiple hours of constantly scrolling through Tumblr, flipping through Teen Magazines, and watching white girls dye their hair pink...
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Originally covered by LA WEEKLY's Dennis Romero
A new report from Hispanas Organized for Political Equality (HOPE) found that Latinas are...
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I’ve walked the walk of shame. I’ve carried my high heels thrown over my shoulder, in the same dress from the night before. I’ve strolled ho...
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Dear white woman,
You say you love me,
But do you love the brown me?
Do you see my curves,
The way they write multiple letters,
in a la...
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For the brown girls who have been called high maintenance, like you’re a car that needs care, like you’re a coffeemaker that is stuck on pou...
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The lack of diversity in TV and film, especially during awards season has been a hot topic of conversation for several years now. It receive...
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When done right, a rom-com can become a staple on any given movie night. Movies like The Wedding Planner, Pretty Woman, When Harry Met Sally...
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Cornell McNair Research Scholars in Solidarity with Dr. Tiffany Martinez: A ♥ Letter to McNair Scholars
“This morning, my professor hande...
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Diversity in TV and movies, and in award ceremonies, this is the quintessential issue that gains constant attention whenever a new TV show o...
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Beauty is a big part of the Latina experience. We grew up watching our abuelitas, moms, tias, sisters and primas get dolled up. We couldn’t ...
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To the Rich Minimalist from a Poor one,
I hear you speak to how liberating minimalism is. How you gave up your six figures a year job, so...
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500,000 in Washington DC, 750,000 in Los Angeles, roughly 100,000 in San Francisco and 60,000 in Oakland (other outlets reported as many as ...
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This Saturday, January 21, 2017 will mark a historic time across the nation. The Women's March will bring out hundreds of thousands of women...
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I have been put off by the various references to that “creepy” uncle, within Latinx communities. I know I am projecting, but the word creep...
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We got 365 days. 365 days!
Hands up ?? for massive transformation in 2017. Through the years, I have taken quantum leaps into becoming m...
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Don’t just talk about supporting the Latinx community--BE about it! All of the items in our rad holiday gift guide are from Latinx-owned bus...
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A few months ago we got the news that SNL had casted its first Latina lead, Melissa Villaseñor. But Melissa is not the only outstanding Lati...
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Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez, Contributing Writer
When you enter spaces meant for the elites, when you enter spaces meant for that smal...
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We look forward to watching HIDDEN FIGURES, in theatres on January 6, 2017 starring a trio of actors/artists - Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. ...
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Latinidad is an ethnicity, it is a name given to people from an ancestral line that is traced to the Caribbean and/or Latin America. It is a...
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Dolores del Rio
In the 1920s and ’30s, Mexican-born actress Dolores del Rio was an icon. Marlene Dietrich even called the firs...
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As I am learning to find my voice as a young adult, I have found myself passionate about helping my community succeed and empo...
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by Azucena Rasilla @ChroniclesofAzu
“When do we have to leave before we get kicked out…” those were the words that my Abuelita uttered me...
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We are Heros. 'Supa' Heros. (punto) Our journeys. Our amazing stories. Navigating between worlds. Makers, creators, trendistas, entreprene...
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Here, at SupaDaily we were absolutely appalled (<---yes, it's a 'scholarly' word, we use) to learn that a fellow woman of color was disre...
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by Azucena Rasilla @ChroniclesofAzu
By the time you read this, the election will be TODAY.
The phrases that resonate in your head...
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I was really excited to write about Phoenix for BoldLatina. The fry bread was off the hook, I went to great little stores, the vibe was grea...
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Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez Contributing Writer
This is for those moments of dissonance. This is for those moments that you can...
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Wellness + Self-Care contributor, Tamaya Garcia, Founder, Spanglish Vegan Kitchen
Shifting Food Culture for Latino Families. I Share L...
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Looking for energy in all the wrong places?
Today, we are working harder and faster more than ever! And getting very little sleep on top ...
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by Azucena Rasilla @ChroniclesofAzu
It has been twenty-one years since Selena Quintanilla; the beloved Tejano singer died, and the in...
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by Anali Martinez @TheNuevaLatina
Giiiiiirl! You are going to get that job! Nowadays, creating your personal brand is so importan...
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Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez
Contributing Writer
I was recently talking to a friend, he is an immigrant and from Mexico and he s...
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with Azucena Rasilla @ChroniclesofAzu
September 12, 2016, will go down in comedy history as the day that “Saturday Night Live” (“SNL”...
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Here at SupaDaily, we have been following a film project giving women graffiti artists or street art activists visibility. Years ago, we won...
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Netflix has been on the forefront of original programming for some years now, and it is no surprise that the media giant is set to spend six...
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Dear [American] white people traveling to Latin America and the Caribbean,
I think too often trips are booked to “exotic” locat...
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When I Found Out I Thought God Was White, And A Man, I Lost Interest. ~ Alice Walker
By Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez, Founder @Latina...
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Your colleagues/co-workers are really cool. Really cool. The workplace well, it is a second home to some of us - breakfast, lunch and ye...
