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7 Latina Poets Amplifying Latinidad that You Need to Read Right Now

Pamela Avila
Poetry has the ability to challenge the status quo, to help its readers make sense of the world and their humanity, and ultimately, poetry changes the world we live in and how we view it. Latin American poets through the...
Lifestyle

5 WOC Who Have Opened Up About Their Struggles with Eating Disorders

Pamela Avila
About 29 million Americans experience a clinically significant eating disorder during their lifetime, reports The Alliance for Eating Disorders Awareness. But of that significant number of people, only one-third who struggle with eating disorders will ever receive treatment. The numbers...
Fashion

15 Body Positive Instagram Stars Proving Bikinis Are For Everyone

V. Alexandra de F. Szoenyi
Hanging out on the beach or taking a dip in the pool are just some of the things we love the most about summer. Naturally, during these months, you’ll want to head outside, catch those warm sun rays, and rock...
News and Entertainment

33 Amazing Afro-Latinxs You Should Know

V. Alexandra de F. Szoenyi
February is Black History Month. While we love to celebrate black excellence all year long, this is a special time to shout out Afro-Latinxs who have repped for the culture and accomplished and achieved so much in their given fields....
Beauty

30 Throwback and New Eyeliner Looks We Want to Recreate

V. Alexandra de F. Szoenyi
Eyeliner is a beauty product so intertwined with Latina culture, history, and identity that it has become the subject of so many Latinx memes, Instagram posts, business taglines, and products. From the days of the Chicana pachuca (the 1940s and...
News and Entertainment

27 Times Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Has Tweeted the Truth

V. Alexandra de F. Szoenyi
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez didn’t run for office to be meek and silent. She is part of the wave of Democratic politicians who decided to be the change they wanted to see in America. And change involves speaking the truth so...
News and Entertainment

Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’ Broke Box Office Record for Films Starring Black Women

Johanna Ferreira
When I first learned that Jordan Peele — the writer, director, and creative genius behind the movie Get Out — was releasing another psychological thriller this year, I was all in. Peele’s 2017 masterpiece, left so many of us shook....