Why Is It Ok To Be Gay As Long As We Don’t Talk About It?

Why Is It Ok To Be Gay As Long As We Don’t Talk About It?

Mary Mata May 25, 2011

There are lots of reasons why I simply don’t “get” homophobia. I’m not going to go into all of them, but as a Latina, one aspect of homophobia I’ve never […]

Summer Vacations, Carne Asadas And Los Tigres Del Norte

Mary Mata

Some things never change — especially in the rewarding field of education. The children I work with now can smell summer right around the corner. They talk about summer blockbusters […]

Website Aims To Be Resource For Multicultural Families

Mary Mata

Seeing as how about 15% of all marriages in the United States are between people of different races or ethnicities, and given recent Census results suggesting this trend will likely […]

Keep Your Kid Healthy WIth 20 Minutes Of Play A Day

Mary Mata

I don’t remember much from my days in elementary school, but I do fondly recall the moments I spent on the playground during recess. For 20 minutes every day I […]

Who’s Afraid Of The Big, Bad Internet?

Mary Mata May 23, 2011

Perhaps because the Internet, social media, and technology in general has given me access and opportunities I never could have hoped for, I’m kind of a fan. Nonetheless, occasionally I do come […]

All Georgia Latinos Suffer From Anti-Immigrant Efforts

Mary Mata

It doesn’t matter what your legal status is in Georgia, if you are Latino the anti-immigrant frenzy there will affect you, or so said Jerry Gonzalez, the Executive Director of […]

More Latinos Than Amish In Amish Country

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Here’s a statistic I didn’t see coming. According to a report in Pennlive.com Latinos have surpassed the Amish in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, which is considered the geographic center of the US Amish culture. […]

Latinos Say “No Way” To José As A Baby Name

Mary Mata May 20, 2011

José, what’s been one of the most popular Latino name for boys in the United States since the Social Security Administration started keeping track, has fallen off the list. When […]

Chisme Is Actually A Survival Tool, Study Finds

Mary Mata

So it turns out that chisme is actually a way that we, as human beings, mange our social lives and increase our chances of survival. A new study in the […]

People Marrying Later, Tías Everywhere Weep

Mary Mata

Census figures indicate that people are increasingly marrying later in their lives, which if your family is anything like mine, means that tías and abuelitas across the country are beginning […]