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Oct 4, 20243 min read

This Bridge Called My Language: Marcela T. Garcés's Me llamo Marcela: My Story as a Heritage Speaker

Marcela T. Garcés's coming of age as a second-generation Colombian American and her experiences as a Spanish heritage speaker.

Oct 2, 20245 min read

The Thirteen: The Origins of An Extraordinary League of Latinx Teen Superheroes!

Dan Johnson reviews the comics book issues that make up the Thirteen Origins and the stories of Latinx teens coming into their superpowers!

Sep 30, 20243 min read

Marianna D Rooks Reviews Coywolf Book 1: "Spirit of the Coywolf"

Spirit of the Coywolf is a scintillating representation of powerful Native Afro-Latina women and the American Southwest.

Sep 27, 20248 min read

On Latinx Pop Culture & Poetics: An Interview with José Olivarez

Melissa Castillo Planas Interviews poet José Olivarez. The talk about Latinx pop culture, translation, COVID lockdown, migration. . .

Sep 14, 20247 min read

Re-membering Outside the Box: Erika Abad Interviews Xochil Xitlalli

Erika Abad interviews two-spirit artist Xochil Xitlalli

Sep 12, 20244 min read

Channeling Inner Diosa Energy: The Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center Connects Comunidad through Accessible Art & Conversation

Through community conversation, artists and community members connect, share, and reflect on what "Diosa energy" is.

Sep 2, 20244 min read

Rose Padilla Reviews Matt de la Peña & Paola Escobar's The Perfect Place!

Matt de la Peña and Paola Escobar's kid's book, The Perfect Place, asks, what’s so great about being perfect, anyway?

Aug 18, 20245 min read

Problemista: A Surrealist Venture into the Immigration Complex

Review of Julio Torres's Problemista--a tribute to an El Salvador that has seldom—if ever—been depicted on film!

Aug 17, 20243 min read

A Plan of Her Own: Sam Ceballos Reviews Eat Your Heart Out Volume 1

Eat Your Heart Out is about community, dream seeking, acceptance, love, family, and self-discovery.

Aug 17, 20249 min read

Labyrinths Borne: The Revolutionary Latinxfuturist Vision of Frederick Luis Aldama

I wanted to conceive of the future in a radically different way. One where the new gens look to philosophy, literature, art & science. . .

Aug 14, 20245 min read

To Cali, with Love: A Review of Writing the Golden State: The New Literary Terrain of California

Offers deeply personal accounts of pockets of California and their complexity!

Jul 29, 20243 min read

Death, Bats, & Deities: Rose Padilla Reviews The Return of Camazotz #1

The Return of Camazotz is stunning, unsettling, and—like the Mayan bat god of death that haunts the protagonists—impossible to put down.

Jul 29, 20242 min read

Frida Kahlo Comes Alive: Paloma Aguirre Reviews Who Was Her Own Work of Art? by Terry Blas & Ashanti Fortson"

Review of Who Was Her Own Work of Art? by Terry Blas (writer) and Ashanti Fortson (illustrator)

Jul 27, 20241 min read

JOEY LOPEZ HOSTS LATINX VIDEOGAME PODCAST!

Joey Lopez, Director of Texas A&M Media Lab, introduces the Latinx Videogam Popcast!

Jul 22, 20241 min read

Andrew Li's PopCast on The Owl House!

Tune In: Andrew Li's insightful PopCast on the animation show, The Owl House and LGBTQ and Afrolatina Intersectional Identities!

Jul 20, 20243 min read

Artistry and Culture of Texas’s Lowriders

The exhibit not only showcases three-dimensional objects of lowrider culture but also provides briefs about its history

Jul 18, 20244 min read

Get Those Line Drivers Out: A Review of Julio Quintana’s The Long Game

Ralph Villenueva Reviews of Julio Quintana's film The Long Game

Jul 10, 20244 min read

Communidad y Familia in Samuel Teer and Mar Julia’s Brownstone: Review by Samantha Ceballos

Reading Brownstone brought out emotions in me that I was not expecting.

Jul 8, 20242 min read

Paloma Aguirre Reviews Gume Laurel III's Samson and Domingo & Brujos of Borderland High!

Gume Laurel III’s books do something that not all YA texts do— they let queer teens be more than tropes of their sexuality.

Jul 6, 20244 min read

The Versatility of Gina Rodriguez in Hollywood: Adventurer, Dreamer, & Trailblazer

Review article that explores the roles Latina actor Gina Rodriguez has played