In a riveting new excerpt from A Cup of Water Under My Bed, the memoir by former New York Times writer Daisy Hernández, she writes about what it was like for her to be a sole Latina in a sea of white men—old-boys who crack hilarious jokes about super-fund stories and subtly undermine her pitches about Colombian…

Directed by Diego Luna — whom you may remember as one of the stars of Y Tu Mamá También — Cesar Chavez, a biopic about the farm worker turned civil rights activist, hits theaters Friday. It is this year's only major studio release about (or starring) Latinos.

Child beauty pageants are fucked up enough without adding a weird racial dimension to them, but if you're going to be terrible, you might as well be all-the-way terrible, right? The Little Miss Hispanic Delaware pageant — which exists because apparently the world doesn't mess with little girls' brains enough as-is —…

"I want to make furniture. I want to complete the album, go on tour. I have a documentary that I've been filming secretly […] I've really gotten into entomology… If I were to write out a to-do list, it would fill the entire wall." Tattoo artist, cosmetics enthusiast and multi-tasker Kat Von D in November's Latina.

In college there was no doubt in my mind that I would marry a Mexican. I didn't want my culture to be diluted. I wanted to live in a Spanish-speaking household. I wore Ché Guevara berets with rebozos and Tehuana blouses. I just stopped short of wearing a poncho and purchasing a donkey just to really make a point. I…

On Friday Monica Marquez became the first openly gay and first female Hispanic Colorado Supreme Court justice. After being sworn in by her father, a retired judge, Marquez noted, "My allegiance is to the law, not to any particular constituency."

A study shows doctors recommend IUDs less frequently to poor white women than to wealthier white women, or poor black or Latina women. One author says doctors must consider "how their patients' characteristics may influence the care they provide."

Lila Downs is an extraordinary Mixteca/American (Scottish) singer. She has thick Frida Kahlo-like natural brows, a pale olive-tinted complexion, long black braids, and the fashion sense of an old-world, beautiful Mexican woman. Well, she used to have all those things.

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Mimi Valdés (editor of Latina magazine) and Gloria J. Baily (director of Diversity at a university) agree in Forbes Woman that Sotomayor's nail polish color choice stems from ethnic pride. [Forbes Woman]

Sonia Sotomayor has turned down almost every interview request since being appointed to the Supreme Court. But that didn't stop the former editor of Latina from drawing on her history with the Justice in a new piece.

"My father loved women. And my mom, like a smart Dominican woman, used to smell his underwear when he came home to make sure he hadn't been with someone else." — Michelle Rodriguez. [Latina]

Possibly-awesome show alert: HBO Latino is launching a new original series set in a fictional Mexican women's prison. The drama, titled Capadocia, will begin airing on September 10th and focuses on the corruption and abuse within women's prisons and the tensions between a prison rights attorney (Dolores Heredia) and a…