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latina

latinx

pop culture fix

17 Queer and Feminist Latinx Podcasts To Get Into

These podcasts are for the chingonas, the jotxs, and the baddass Latinxs who need some audio magic in their lives.

Yvonne —

Aug 28, 2017

bisexuality

gina rodriguez

celebrities (vapid fluff)

Gina Rodriguez Is “More Bisexual Than Jane,” Which is Potentially Something Or Not, Regardless I Love Her

“Jane is the furthest from bisexual — maybe Gina’s a little closer than Jane is! — but I love that they want that. And I’m all about ‘Jetra.’I love ‘Jetra.'”

Yvonne —

Aug 1, 2017

bisexuality

Drawn to Comics

geekery

Drawn to Comics: Chicana Bisexual Maddi Gonzalez Makes Beautiful Comics About Mental Illness and Life

Maddi is doing some really brilliant art right now — she’s having a ton of fun and loosening up her style at the same time as she’s refining it and…

Mey —

Apr 4, 2017

latina

latinx

movie reviews

“Power Rangers” Gives Young Queer Latinas Hope For A Superheroic Future

Trini, the Mexican-American Yellow Ranger, tells her friends that she’s figuring out her sexuality and that she likes girls, and in the process she finds a family.

Mey —

Mar 27, 2017

donald trump is not my president

immigration

politics + activism

Young DREAMer Daniela Vargas Could Be Deported Today Without Even a Hearing

Undocumented student Daniela Vargas bravely spoke out at a news conference advocating for immigrants and was shortly detained by ICE. She’s now facing immediate deportation without a hearing. She’s lived…

Yvonne —

Mar 3, 2017

america chavez

comics/graphic novels

geekery

Gabby Rivera on Bringing Her Queer Brown Weirdo Self to Marvel’s America

“I’m a queer brown weirdo and I love every short inch of myself. I’m bringing all that round, brown, goodness to this story. All the things that make me laugh…

Mey —

Mar 3, 2017

america chavez

comics/graphic novels

geekery

America Chavez Gives Me Hope For Queers of Color Everywhere

Over the past several months, I have watched my surroundings transform into some sort of fictional dystopia. Despite this, seeing illustrations of America Chavez have filled me with hope.

Ludmila Leiva —

Mar 1, 2017

interview

latina

tv feature

Meet One Day at a Time’s Lesbian Writers, Becky Mann and Michelle Badillo

We talked to One Day at a Time writers, Becky Mann and Michelle Badillo, about gay representation on TV, how Autostraddle came to be in the script, their queer TV…

Yvonne —

Feb 27, 2017

latina

latinx

tv reviews

Netflix’s “One Day at a Time” Is the Revolutionary, Feminist Latinx Family Sitcom We Didn’t Know We Needed

One Day at a Time is so revolutionary in its depictions of what a family might actually look like in America. It’s got the same recipe of an old school…

Yvonne —

Jan 10, 2017

Daily Fix

latina

politics + activism

Finally Free! Four Wrongfully Convicted Latina Lesbians Cleared on All Charges by Texas Court

More than twenty years since they were convicted of a horrific crime, a Texas criminal appeals court declared four Latina lesbians innocent and exonerated. The San Antonio Four’s exoneration serves…

Yvonne —

Nov 23, 2016

documentaries

interview

movie reviews

Southwest of Salem: How Four Wrongfully Convicted Latina Lesbians Survived A Witch-Hunt

Southwest of Salem tells the story of four Latina lesbians who were found guilty of a crime they didn’t commit and how the legal and criminal justice systems failed them…

Yvonne —

Nov 18, 2016

latina

our pulse

first person

La India y La Negrx: Intentional, Radical Love in My Queer Interracial Relationship

“Love in partnership as colonized/racialized bodies is courageously undressing the walls we have built to survive and showing others the chaos that war has left behind.”

Edyka Chilomé —

Oct 6, 2016