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When I was 19 years old I had an abortion. Very few people know. Now you know too. I was in a college psychology class when I got the call. I remember my world spinning out of control, as if all the things that mattered to me was no longer
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Criselda Vasquez paints her familia as they’ve never been seen - powerful, dignified, and front and center. Her large-scale portraits celebrate Latinx identity, reclaim space in the art world, and challenge cultural erasure with every brushstroke.
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Pride can be so intimidating, loud, and appear to be something so fearless, yet some of us are not there yet, are not in a safe space to “come out”, or did not always feel this way. When we think about pride, it has lost its meaning from what it
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I sat in my apartment “studying” for finals listening to music and drinking tequila with friends when someone played, “Que falta me hace mi padre” on Youtube Cómo lo voy a olvidar Siempre lo tengo en mi mente El me enseño a trabajar Me aconsejó a ser decente After a
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“Well, somebody’s doing the raping, Don! I mean somebody’s doing it! Who’s doing the raping? Who’s doing the raping?” Trump exclaimed on CNN while being interviewed by Don Lemon. Trump elaborated further, “Well if you look at the statistics of people coming, you look at the
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Harmonia Rosales is an Afro-Latina artist who does one thing we can totally get behind – she ‘flips the art canvas script’ literally, by doing her own take of the world’s most renowned works of art (with male subjects, white males) with Black women/ women of color as the subjects
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It’s hard loving yourself when everyone is telling you otherwise. Here’s to a collective effort of trying to love your lonjitas, tú piel morena—just like I’m trying to love mine. I remember flaring up my nose in front of my mom, hoping she would flare her
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Mamá, I know that I put my life in constant danger when I go out to raise my voice. I want you to understand why I consider myself an activist, why we as a generation, are part of the fight and why I must continue fighting para nuestra gente. Mami,
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Two black men walked into a Philadelphia Starbucks store, sat down to have a conversation while waiting for a friend, without an order of coffee. Some time later, they were handcuffed and walked out by local police. National protests erupted mainly staged at Starbucks locations. The Starbucks Philadelphia store manager
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My grandmother tells me that when I was young, I used to deny being Peruvian and claim to be only American. The family used to consider my claims a cute joke, which I probably misinterpreted as reinforcement. As I got older, however, I severely struggled with identifying my culture- where
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Now That I Have Found Myself I Have Also Found My Voice. Here lately I have been talking a lot about the AfroLatina experience. Not just any experience. My experience. Someone from my past asked me when did I become an Afro-Latina? Was that a real question? Did they really
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A New Film Sheds Light On Dolores Huerta’s Significant Untold Contribution From Creating ‘Si Se Puede’ Message to Organizing One of the nation’s most important of activists, a feminist, a mother to eleven (ay Dios mio what a super woman) and co-founder of the first farm workers union