Netflix is rebooting One Day at a Time, the quintessential ‘70s Norman Lear show about a single mom raising her two daughters with a distinctly feminist slant, in a time that showing both those things on television was a little revolutionary. This time around, though, the family will be Cuban-American, with the god…
Soon-to-be two-time grandma MVP and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has posted a list to her campaign site entitled “7 Ways Hillary Clinton is Just Like Your Abuela.” Apparently targeted towards Latinas (y’know, because “abuela” means “grandma” in Spanish), the #totally #shareable list of .gifs talked a lot…
I feel slightly bad for snickering at Will Smith’s verse on Bomba Estéreo’s “Fiesta,” because I don’t think I fully grasped the magnitude of it. In theory, one of the world’s most famous actors collaborating with a beloved Colombian electronic tropical group was cool, but my skepticism hackles were up. Seeing the…
I’ve been loving Becky G’s run on Empire as Valentina Galindo, the lead singer of hilariously-named trio “Mirage A Trois” who’s been using her wiles on Hakeem to ramp up her stature. (She says she’s not, but we know the drill.) In part because Becky from the Block is all of 18 now, and it’s nice to see her taking on…
For Latinas of Mexican descent, a few women have reached saint-like status. There’s Selena, obviously, but for the bookish among us, Sandra Cisneros is the Patron Saint of Chingonas. Widely known as the author of The House on Mango Street, which tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, a young Mexican girl growing up in…
Will Smith has excellent taste. One of the biggest superstars in the entire world was in Colombia recently and stumbled upon the music of heroes Bomba Estéreo, a group we also love here at Jezebel. The difference between Will and us, though, is that he rapped on it.
A couple days ago, Billy Eichner posted an “On the Street” in which he asked “LaTina Fey” to name 20 Latino performers in one minute. Not only did she call queen Gina Rodriguez “the woman from Jane the Virgin,” she named Lou Diamond Phillips who, while great, is not Latino.
Ana Tijoux, the powerhouse French-Chilean diva who is one of the most recognizable and important rappers in Latin America, has just released the video for “Antipatriarca,” one of the more explicitly feminist songs in her repertoire. It’s glorious.
Jane the Virgin has quickly become one of the most beloved new shows on television in its first season, both for its deeply enjoyable telenovela narration style, and the way Gina Rodriguez's Jane contains multitudes. But on last night's episode, Jane the Virgin had a frank, very real, very emotional discussion about…
About eight years ago, mainstream companies suddenly realized that there are a lot of Latinas in the United States and oh my god, we actually buy shit. Though we are a vast and deeply complicated bunch who cannot be easily enticed—more complex than a Rubik's Cube or Sudoku—marketers continue to attempt to crack the…
Jennifer Lopez and Ryan Guzman cover Latina's February 2015 issue to promote The Boy Next Door, a 2015 film about a woman who falls for a younger man who eventually reveals himself to be a maniacal stalker. Fun!
This fall, two television shows starring Latinas, and featuring American Latina culture, made it to primetime. In Cristela, we've seen a milestone: it's the first-ever primetime sitcom not only starring a Latina (any Latina!) but also created, written, and produced by her as well. Cristela Alonzo, a 35-year-old,…
Everyone says Cristela Alonzo, in her eponymous new sitcom Cristela, is "charming," and that is true: she has mischief in her eyes and a dimple in one cheek and she smiles very naturally, a lot more than the deceptively maudlin laughtrack drones populating the majority of primetime sitcoms these days. She seems…
Tonight's the debut of the sitcom Cristela, the first-ever primetime show created, written, produced by and starring a Latina—Tejas-born, Mexican-American comedian Cristela Alonzo. Cristela is about an aspiring lawyer on her hustle who lives with her family, who seem from the trailer to be both loving and…
Raquel Berrios and Luis Alfredo Del Valle make up the Brooklyn-via-Trujillo Alto duo Buscabulla, a name which means "troublemaker" in Puerto Rican slang. Earlier this year, they won a weird contest put on by Guitar Center and Converse; the prize included the opportunity to record at the latter corporation's Rubber…
In yet another suit since the Mexican-American banda superstar Jenni Rivera died in a 2012 plane crash, now there's further dispute over who owns—and who even wrote—her posthumous 2013 autobiography, Unbreakable: My Story, My Way.
