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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