La Bestia: Helping migrants in Mexico
Mary Mata July 9, 2013
By Cassie Price, Latina Voiecs We started the day being introduced to Las Patronas. This small group of women grew up watching increasing numbers of people traveling from Central America and […]
A Latina mom: We must open the doors for our gay children
Mary Mata July 2, 2013
By Queta Rodriguez Bauer, Latina Voices When my daughter came out, some 15 years ago (she is 32 now), I didn’t know what to do, what to say or how […]
Latina Blues Machine
Mary Mata
By Cristina Correa, Latina Voices Outside of the Golly Box Co. on this otherwise quiet and factory-laden block of the Chicago neighborhood known as Back of the Yards, a guitar […]
One poet who won’t be boxed in
Mary Mata
By Jenny Patiño, Latina Voices According to Cuban-American poet Rita María Martínez, if you attend one of her readings “expecting that every poem is going to have coconuts in it, or […]