Bigger, Faster, Stronger: Latinas in Sports
Bigger, Faster, Stronger: Latinas in Sports
By Maria Hinojosa, Latino USA Maria Hinojosa talks to Mexican soccer team member Anisa Guajardo and sports and fitness writer Laanna Carrasco about Latinas in sports, and the self-determination it […]
Latina state Senator fights Texas abortion bill: “This is about women’s health”
By Alessandra Hickson, NBCLatino One week after an 11-hour fillibuster by Texas Senator Wendy Davis, round two of an intense fight over proposed abortion legislation gets underway in Texas. Governor Rick […]
Identity Crisis in Faith and Politics No More
By Melanie Mendez-G0nzales This one is scary for me to write. I don’t always like taking a stand so publicly. Then again, it’s not all about me, is it? I […]
Romney’s Empty “Binders Full of Women”
By Maria Cardona, Latinovations Mitt Romney showed up Tuesday night talking about “binders full of women” being brought to him when he was governor. Sounds kind of kinky and certainly not something you […]
Latina Working Mothers Can ‘Have It All’ — By Adjusting Their Expectations
By Kalyn Belsha, Voxxi In a recent article that went viral, Anne-Marie Slaughter, a mother of two and the former director of policy planning for the U.S. State Department, took a bold […]
Self Awareness Reveals Not So Subtle Stereotypes
I imagine that most minorities who are self-aware have the occasional, or perhaps even perpetual, underlying fear of fulfilling racial stereotypes. It’s an anxiety that I’m still trying to unpack. […]