Child Beauty Pageant Makes Contestants Prove They're Actually Latina
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 —…
Lest We Forget, Brown Kids Absolutely Deserve More Brown Superheroes
As great as Andrew Garfield was in The Amazing Spider-Man, do you guys remember that major Twitter petition to get Community actor-cum-rapper Childish Gambino Donald Glover in as Peter Parker? Even Stan Lee was down with the idea. Even as the idea of canon superheroes widens to fit more archetypes of girls and women…
Casting Call For 'Hot Blooded' Latina Moms Makes My Blood Boil
A new reality show being produced by DaM Legacy Entertainment is casting hot Latina mamis. I am not making this up!
Latinos No Les Gusta Mitt Romney, Any Republican
Poor Mittens Romneybot. All his boyish heart wants and desires is simply to be the leader of the free world, elected President of the United States as God and nature and that lush head of hair intended. But no matter how hard he tries, no one seems to like him. Not far right social conservatives. Not female moderates.…
Why Latinas Aren't Allowed to Get Angry
In a few very tangible ways, Latinas have it rougher than other folks. Not only do we often find ourselves in an ethnic/cultural/linguistic/racial minority, cuing others to pile on stereotypical expectations, but we're also female. Often we might be the only woman in the room, and so we also bear the brunt of an…
Arizona Politician Proposes a Special Holiday for White People
When it comes to holidays, the theory is generally that you can never have enough of them. Though one Arizona lawmaker might be pushing the limits of that rule. During a conversation on the floor of the Arizona House Rep. Richard Miranda proposed a Latino American Day in Arizona, to celebrate the accomplishments of…

