This Latina engineer owns her feminism
This Latina engineer owns her feminism
*This is a very good lunch break read. Many layers of meaning and insight. VL By Krissah Thompson, The Washington Post On a cool Friday night Patricia Valoy bounded into […]
22-Year-Old Latina Sabrina Pasterski May Be The Next Albert Einstein
*She was wait listed at MIT, now she studies space-time and black holes at Harvard. I get the feeling that even without Ivy league schools she would find a way […]
Study Shows Latinas are More Likely to Have Larger Families
*Latinas are still having more babies than others, but the mythical large Latino family is shrinking. This has economic, educational, and political implications. VL By Cristina Arreola, Latina By […]
Don’t Call Me ‘Mamacita.’ I Am Not Your Mommy.
By Laura Martinez, NPR Code Switch One of the very few things I don’t miss about my native Mexico City is fending off sleazy guys calling you sabrosa (tasty) or rica (delicious) or some […]
The Plight of Women Migrants
*Recent news has been about unaccompanied children traveling north to the U.S., but a story just as compelling is that of the dangers that women face as they cross Mexico […]
The Latina Bounty Hunter
By Maria Hinojosa, Latino USA What happens if you don’t hold a Latina back? If she never hears “You can’t do that!” You might get someone like Michelle Gomez. She’s a skip […]
LATISM13 conference: harnessing social media to improve Latinos’ lives
By Maria Camila Bernal, NBCLatino In less than five years, Latinos in Social Media (LATISM) has been able to unite thousands of Latinos in the nation in hopes of helping advance their social, […]
Big Hair
By Zoia Zentella, Latina Voices By the time I was 16 my hair was a mess, brittle, split ends. I was told that the remedy lay in a bottle of […]
‘More Women Than We Thought’ on Front Lines of Immigration Protest
By Miriam Yeung, New America Media On Thursday, Aug. 1, I joined nearly 50 labor leaders, immigrant advocates, environmental activists, people of faith and DREAMers from the “We Belong Together” […]
“Ruda Phat”: Uncovering ‘lonja’ and body image
By Elda Silva, San Antonio Express News Lonja (lóne-hah). The word slips off the tongue, propelled by breathy vowels. In Spanish, it’s commonly used to denote rolls of fat or love […]