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"On My Block" Star Jessica Marie Garcia Is Helping Make Netflix More Latinx
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(TV)
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... her “chonies” (Spanish for underwear) “to no phonies.”
On the show, Garcia personifies teen angst, awkwardness, and energy. But IRL, the Orlando, FL, native is actually a 33-year-old TV veteran with ...
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Created on 17 December 2020
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La Chica's "La Loba" is An Anthem for She-Wolves
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(Music)
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... l roar, while the weight of the melody is balanced by hand-claps, and sprawling lyrical Spanish.
The sensory sounds and visuals of “La Loba” are as beautiful as they are jarring, much like a bloated bel ...
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Created on 09 December 2020
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Resistance Revival Chorus’ Debut Album "This Joy" is the Perfect Antidote To Your Election Day Anxiety
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(Music)
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... people, especially people of color, through protest songs. Since their formation, they’ve backed Kesha at the Grammys, sung Spanish lullabies outside a New York holding facility to migrant children detained ...
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Created on 03 November 2020
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Mexican-American Sister Trio Tiarra Girls Talk New Cover Single "Can't Stop The World," Heritage, The Pandemic, and Proudest Moments: BUST Interview
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(Music)
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... and in Spanish even though we aren't fluent, we push ourselves to learn more words, incorporating Spanglish. We are multifaceted people, we are multifaceted Mexican-Americans. We come from very deep, pow ...
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Created on 22 September 2020
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High Number of Women in Ice Custody Are Allegedly Being Subjected To Hysterectomies
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(Feminism)
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... communicate with detained immigrants by googling Spanish or asking other detained immigrants to help interpret rather than using the provided language line.
The organization has filed reports about this cente ...
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Created on 15 September 2020
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The 100th Anniversary of (Some) Women's Suffrage: Did YOUR state support women's right to vote? Check this state-by-state history of the fight for suffrage in America
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(Feminism)
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... lved the campaign for prohibition and temperance with the Texas Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Mexican suffragist, Jovita Idar wrote pro-suffrage articles for her family's Spanish-language newspa ...
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Created on 18 August 2020
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"Mordechai" Showcases Khruangbin At Their Best
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(Music)
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... plucking, drummer DJ Johnson providing robust Spanish percussion, and the whole group honing soothing vocals. 4/5
By Kelli Ebensberger
Mordechai was released June 26, 2020. This article originally ...
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Created on 26 June 2020
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200 British Feminists Condemn Anti-Trans Rhetoric And I Am So Here For It
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(Feminism)
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... her recent murder. “Performing his song ‘Ignorantes’ with Sech and the Roots, Bad Bunny took the stage wearing a skirt and a shirt that read, in Spanish, ‘They killed Alexa, not a man in a skirt.’ The ...
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Created on 05 March 2020
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Welcome to Pulga: How One Woman Bought A Ghost Town And Turned It Into A Feminist Haven
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(Living)
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... s to hosting a huge women’s retreat called the Chairman Mom Flee (the name is a play on “flea,” which in Spanish is “pulga”). Sarah Lacy, founder of Chairman Mom—a San Francisco-based social media platfo ...
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Created on 19 February 2020
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Ani Cordero Is Mad As Hell — So She Made "El Machete"
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(Music)
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... (Sin Mantequilla)”’s chants of “Bread, bread/Without butter,” is about fighting for more than government scraps. What may be lost in translation for non-Spanish speakers is made up for in heart. You may ...
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Created on 06 February 2020
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11.
9 Things To Not Do To Your Waitress
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(Living)
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... them. Just because someone is speaking Spanish doesn’t mean they are from Mexico or want to hear about your crazy trip to Cancún.
Don’t ask me to drink with you
I don’t know how many times I need t ...
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Created on 04 February 2020
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Ecuadorian President Claims Only Ugly Men Are Accused of Harassment
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(Feminism)
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... Courtesy of Wikimedia
More on BUST
Murder Of Mexican Feminist Sparks Outrage, Reflects Deeper Issue In The Nation
Spanish Feminists Fight Government To Neutralize Bias In Gendered Language
Watc ...
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Created on 04 February 2020
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Spanish Feminists Fight Government To Neutralize Bias In Gendered Language ...
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(Feminism)
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... and leader of the socialist party Pedro Sánchez being elected as prime minister of Spain, the Royal Spanish Academy has had a pending report to alter the 1978 constitution to include inclusive gender pronouns, ...
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Created on 22 January 2020
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Watch 100 women protest at Harvey Weinstein Rape Trial
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(Feminism)
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... are the lyrics, learn them, for I’m sure there will be more of this in 2020, the fight continues.
“Un Violador En Tu Camino”
Original Spanish Text By Las Tesis
“A Rapist In Your Path”
Patriarchy ...
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Created on 10 January 2020
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6 New Books Perfect For The Coldest Winter Months
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(Books)
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... m Spanish by Megan McDowell, begins with “Humiliation.” Specifically, that of a desperate, out of work father, who loses an acting gig to his young daughters. Being unable to provide might be the highe ...
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Created on 10 January 2020
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Jaquira Díaz On "Ordinary Girls," Home, And Telling Her Story: BUST Interview
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(Books)
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... real. Black men’s and women’s bodies were considered dangerous. Even after slavery, this violence remains. Consider the deeply-ingrained myth that all Puerto Ricans are a mix of Spanish, Taíno, and African. ...
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Created on 03 January 2020
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This Chilean Song Became An International Feminist Anthem
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(Feminism)
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A protest song about rape culture, victim shaming, and femicide in Chile has become an anthem for feminists worldwide. It’s called “A Rapist In Your Way” — in Spanish, “Un violador en tu camino.” It ...
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Created on 17 December 2019
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A Feminist Report From The U.S.-Mexico Border
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(Feminism)
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... I’m called to do other tasks around the shelter. As a native Spanish speaker from Mexico, I’m pulled in many directions to translate. The question, “What are they running away from, anyway?” returns to ...
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Created on 12 December 2019
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How American Women Fell In Love With Halloween
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(Living)
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... costumes representing “Spanish dancing girls, Indian maidens, Gypsies, Turks” and other cultural or racial stereotypes. In 1934, a department store in Cicero, Illinois, even advertised a child-sized Aunt ...
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Created on 31 October 2019
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"Envejeciendo" by Maria Usbeck Is Gracefully Disorienting
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(Music)
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MARIA USBECK Envejeciendo (Cascine)
"Envejeciendo” is Spanish for “aging,” and Maria Usbeck’s album of the same name explores growing older in a youth-fixated world. From theplayful synths an ...
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Created on 30 October 2019
