A Girl’s Guide To Responding To Catcalls

I remember being a chubby and dorky 13 year-old girl and getting honked at by creeps when I walked in my neighborhood. Since I was so incredibly awkward and unattractive, […]

This has been a good year for Hispanic media – and by that I mean Spanish language media in general, which industry and academia insists on calling “Hispanic.” Univisión, the leader of […]

Not only is cuticle hard to spell, they’re also hard to deal with. I know growing up my best friend had the most sensitive cuticles so when we would give each other […]

I love Lydia Mendoza because, even in the 1930s recordings I first heard of her music, she’s got sass. She ain’t takin’ nothin’ from nobody and she’s going to let […]

Recently I was at an event when an elderly white gentleman approached me and began a conversation. After we got over the whole “It’s Sara, not Sarah,” part of my […]

So, I’m only 5′ 7″ (and change). For whatever reason, I grew neither as tall as my father or mother, who are about 5′ 8″ or 9″. I maintain that […]

I remember when I was a young girl dreaming about being a reporter, I used to pretend to be Rachel from “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” because she was the only […]

So I’m the kind of gal that wants quick, easy and ready-to-go hair. For this reason, and also because I like the idea of long hair, I’ve sported medium-to-long hair […]

A new study released at the end of July shows that Latinas who are lesbians face racism from within and without their LGBTQ communities, as well as homophobia and sexism. […]

By Efrain Nieves Watching the trailer of the upcoming movie “Colombiana” brought to mind a few things: Here is a Latina playing a Latina in a action movie and it’s […]