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							<title>How Afro-Latina Filmmakers Are Redefining Latinidad in Film</title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[Afro-Latina creatives Cynthia Garcia Williams and Eunice Levis  are representing the diversity of Latinidad. ]]></description>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2023 18:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[Melissa Rivero's "Flores and Miss Paula" explores the mother-daughter dynamic following the loss of the family patriarch. ]]></description>
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							<title>The First Gen Struggles of Not Feeling Latina Enough</title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2022 21:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[I’m too “gringa” to be fully Latina because I’m not yet fluent in Spanish. I’m too Latina to be American because of my obvious physical Latina characteristics.]]></description>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2021 23:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[Afro-Latinidad is a topic that seems to invoke a lot of emotion in people, and draw out just as many opinions on what it means to be Black, what it means to be Latinx and what it means to Black and Latinx. As with most things that have to do with race and skin color,]]></description>
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							<title>Nine Latinx Podcast Episodes About Identity You Need to Listen to</title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2021 22:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[With the start of Latinx/Hispanic Heritage Month comes the inevitable conversations about our identities and culture.]]></description>
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							<title>Latinxs Have Always Been Ahead of The Game When it Comes To Self-Care</title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2019 11:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[By now most of us know about the importance of self-care. Living in a high-stress, overly-connected world, it’s sometimes hard to stop and take time for ourselves. Plenty of books and articles out there tell us time and again that we need to slow down and treat ourselves. But long before self-care became a viral]]></description>
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							<title>I&#8217;m Fed Up With People Calling Me &#8216;Half-Latina&#8217;</title>
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							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Irina Gonzalez]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2019 13:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[&#160; [article_ad_lb] I was born in Moscow, Russia, to a Russian mom and Cuban dad. After my family immigrated to the U.S. and settled in Miami, my life changed dramatically. Eventually, we moved to the southwest coast of Florida and, once again, everything changed. I went from being surrounded by Spanish-speaking Latino kids of all]]></description>
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							<title>Salsa Dancing Doesn&#8217;t Determine How Latinx You Are</title>
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							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hip Latina]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2018 20:49:30 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[I grew up in the ultimate Latinx household. I speak Spanish at home, you&#8217;d always find several opened tortillas packages in the fridge, and my family watches Univision and Telemundo religiously. Whether it was my tan skin or curly hair, my Latina-ness is undeniable. One of the things that&#8217;s always deeply connected me to my]]></description>
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							<title>5 Books to Teach My Son to Embrace His Latinidad</title>
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							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Priscilla Blossom]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2018 11:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[I am Latina, but I live in a predominantly white neighborhood, in a predominantly white city, in the middle of white America. My husband is white, nearly all the friends I’ve made in town are white, and 99% of my son’s school is white. My son is half-white, but he’s also half-Latino and I want]]></description>
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							<title>9 Latinas Who&#8217;ve Clapped Back When Told They&#8217;re Not &#8216;Latina Enough’</title>
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							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Irina Gonzalez]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2017 17:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[If you grew up as a young Latina immigrant in the U.S. or are a U.S.-born Latina, then you’ve probably heard at one time or another that you are not “Latina enough.” We’re all honestly tired of hearing that but some Latina actresses are here to tell haters to back off. Most recently, Fifth Harmony’s]]></description>
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							<title>What Does Identifying as Afro-Latina Really Mean?</title>
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							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Johanna Ferreira]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2017 17:06:39 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[Racial identity for a lot of U.S. born Latinos, is a very complex, multi-dimensional, and multi-faceted thing. As a Dominican-American woman born and raised in Queens, New York, I can attest to that. All I have to do is take a good look in the mirror to know that aside from being a Latina, I]]></description>
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