My iPhone Is My Child And My Email Is My Identity
My iPhone Is My Child And My Email Is My Identity
By Amalia Deloney, Grassroots Policy Director at the Center for Media Justice Holidays are always fun, if for no other reason than you get to see your family and old […]
My Daughter Likes Women: How Can I Cure Her?
Dear Martha: I’m a mother who suspects that her daughter likes women. What type of specialist can you recommend that I can send her to in order to be cured? […]
How “Yo’ Momma’s So Fat” Jokes Made Me A Better Person
I think I grew up within the generation that had it socially tougher than my parents, but not as easy as our children. Sure, my parents had to cross a […]
The Pocho Ocho Secrets Of Your Average Latino Family
8. Uncle Wilfredo from South America is a Nazi 7. The real reason your brother looks like Vicente Fernandez 6. La Otra Familia 5. Tia Choncha’s moustache 4. Coca Cola boycott exemption for Cuba Libres […]
The New Year’s Grapes Of Hope
By La Cosmopolatina One of the most widely spread traditions in Latin America is that of eating 12 grapes at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve. We’ve all […]
This New Year Propose, Don’t Resolve
In Spanish we don’t make New Year’s resolutions, we make propositions, and that just seems like a much healthier way to go about it. There’s no such thing as a […]
In Panama, New Year’s Is All About The Fireworks
By Silvio Sirias And on that dark, bitter Christmas night, as yet another round of fireworks shattered the still, tropical sky with bright, thunderous explosions . . . So begins the […]
It’s Not Fair To Shame People For Not Speaking Spanish
There is a particular shame associated with being a Latino in the United States: you may not speak Spanish, and if you do, you will never speak it well enough. I […]
The Recipe For A Healthy Relationship
There are no perfect relationships. What exists are couples that are healthy, or couples that are conflict–laden. What makes the two different is the commitment they have to making the relationship work. If you have a partner […]
My Mean Aunt Socorro Ruled With A Mix Of Fear And Shame
There is one person I always feared when I went to visit relatives in Mexico – my Aunt Socorro. She is married to my father’s brother, Rafael, and always insisted […]