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Last Chance To Get Ceremonia’s Insta-Famous Haircare For 20% Off Sitewide
Mercedes Viera
Mar 7, 2022
Somos Latinx
My Culture Taught Me Sex is for Putas — Here’s How I’m Unlearning Shame...
Jacqueline Delgad...
Mar 4, 2022
Somos Latinx
Latin American Street Art Reflects Protest & Hope for Black & Indigenous Women
Marjua Estevez
Mar 3, 2022
Somos Latinx
Susana Baca Preserves Afro-Peruvian History Through Song
Before Susana Baca became a Latin American icon, she was a young girl in Chorrillos, Peru, a district in Lima, watching her mom command every room she ente
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Brenda Barrientos
Somos Latinx
Anna Delvey’s Experiences in ICE Detention are Normal—That&...
This month’s release of Inventing Anna, Shonda Rhimes’ new Netflix miniseries about a socialite scammer running through elite circles in New York has i
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Alejandra Oliva
Somos Latinx
YEИDRY Found Herself Through Music—Now She Writes Songs That Affi...
Yendry is not concerned with the stereotypes that limit Latinx artists. Born to Dominican parents in Santo Domingo before migrating to Italy at age four, Y
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Marjua Estevez
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Latinx
Comunidad, Yailin La Más Viral Isn’t the Problem—Internaliz...
On a typical laundry day on the island, my neighbors’ teenage daughter-in-law can be heard blasting Karol G’s “Bichota” from her loudspeakers as sh
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Melania Luisa Marte
Somos Latinx
I Lost My Tía to Cancer. Running Through My Grief Helped Me Find ...
The week before Christmas of 2021, a year full of blurry political upheaval and pandemic anxieties, my aunt died of breast cancer. Christmas was her favori
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Jessica Diaz-Hurtado
Somos Latinx
Ceremonia’s New Papaya Scalp Scrub & Hair Mask Are A Much-Needed ...
If your hair care routine has been missing a nice ol’ scrub and mask, Ceremonia‘s got you covered. The Latinx-owned sustainable haircare brand
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Mercedes Viera
Somos Latinx
Zoraida Córdova’s
Reclaim the Stars
Explores Social Inju...
If books offer an escape, few genres do so more purposefully than science fiction and fantasy. The rules get thrown out the window. Characters wield imposs
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Eva Recinos
Somos Latinx
I Used to Crave a Fairytale Romance — Now I Realize Love Is All A...
As a multicultural community, Latinxs often exist in an in-between. We are “ni de aquí, ni de allá.” In many ways, this identity has shaped u
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Yesika Salgado
Somos Latinx
How Young Latine Flower Shop Owners Are Remixing Tradition
Whether you’re in a Salvadoran neighborhood in Washington, DC, a Puerto Rican barrio in Chicago, or a Peruvian ‘hood in New Jersey, there’s one shop
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Gabriela Ulloa
Somos Latinx
How Museum Curator Ariana Curtis Inserts Black Latinidad in Histo...
Once a year, the U.S. acknowledges the egregious pay gap in which Latinas earn just 67 cents for every dollar a non-Latinx white man makes. It’s time we
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Janel Martinez
Books & Art
In
No Filter and Other Lies,
Crystal Maldonado Encourage...
For her first kindergarten self-portrait, Crystal Maldonado drew herself with blond hair, blue eyes, and peachy skin—like Michelle Tanner from Full House
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Natalia M. Perez-...
Somos Latinx
I Never Felt Like My Virginity Belonged To Me—Until I Lost It
There I was, 18, and I was ready to lose it: my virginity. Legally, I was an adult, employed as a hostess at TGI Fridays, and making enough money to pay my
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Sasha Merci Medina
Somos Latinx
8 Latinx-Made Products To Set The Mood This Valentine’s Day
Setting the mood on Valentine’s Day is all about the vibes (and we’re not just talking toys) — there’s also decor, wardrobe, and (of co
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Mercedes Viera
Second Gen
6 Women On The Pressure Of Being The Eldest Kid Of Immigrants
Growing up, I constantly sought approval from my Mexican parents, even when making the tiniest decisions, like dyeing my hair. I was terrified of disappoin
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Jacqueline Delgad...
Black History Month 2022
It’s Time We Pay Due To The Black Latinx Music Artists of Yesterday
R29Unbothered continues its look at Black culture’s tangled history of Black identity, style, and contributions to the culture with ROOTS, our annual Bla
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Marjua Estevez
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Somos Latinx
In Celebration of Tatyana Ali’s ‘90s Fashion Looks
When The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air hit television screens on September 10, 1990, young viewers weren’t just howling with laughter at the smart humor of the
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Naydeline Mejia
Somos Latinx
Why Wellness Entrepreneur Cyndi Ramirez-Fulton Says Self-Care Isn...
The wellness industry, worth an estimated $1.5 trillion, is vast, but Cyndi Ramirez-Fulton stands out among the rest with Chillhouse—a spa meets nail sal
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Yara Simón
Somos Latinx
How Afrobeats Is Musically Bridging Black Latinxs and Africans
The first time I heard Colombian pop singer Maluma’s “Mama Tetema,” featuring Tanzanian singer-songwriter Rayvanny, I was writing a script for VEVO?
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Marjua Estevez
Beauty
This Afro-Latina Never Saw Herself Represented Growing Up — Here’...
Growing up in the suburbs of Detroit, Bianca Kea was acutely aware that outside of her family, there were no other Afro-Latinxs that looked like her. No on
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R29 Team
Somos Latinx
5 Latinx-Owned Stationery Brands For All Your New Year Needs
How do we want our 2022 to look like? Organizade y productive sin olvidar about our self-care, of course! Whether you’re a stationary super fan or ar
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Mercedes Viera
Dedicated Feature
How Sita Abellan Is Rethinking The Word “Influencer” For Hispanic...
Sita Abellan epitomizes “Jack of all trades.” Throughout the course of the last decade, she’s worked as a model, a designer, an Instagram Personality
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R29 Editors
Somos Latinx
Glee’s
Santana Lopez Elevated Queer Latina Represe...
Mean cheerleaders have long been staples of teen entertainment. In Glee, it was the self-proclaimed “straight-up bitch” Santana Lopez, played by th
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Gabriela Ramos Ta...
Beauty
This Latinx Designer Is Challenging Hair Stereotypes With Her T-S...
Sherly Tavarez was only six when her mom started relaxing her hair. “I remember thinking I would never know what it was like to have ‘good hair’,”
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R29 Team
Best of Netflix
Rebelde
Made Me Gay (& The Netflix Remake Is Telling Our...
The age-old proverb states: “If you were a little too obsessed with Rebelde as a nine-year-old, re-watching scenes on YouTube, concerts, and music videos
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Sofia Viera
Somos Latinx
What Latinxs Are Manifesting for 2022
With the end of yet another strange year comes the opportunity for new intentions, reinventing ourselves, and reimagining our realities. 2020 shook us to t
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Jacqueline Delgad...
Somos Latinx
With
Olga Dies Dreaming
, Xochitl Gonzalez Celebrates The...
“The telltale sign that you are at the wedding of a rich person is the napkins,” protagonist Olga Acevedo proclaims in the opening line of Olga Dies Dr
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Ruby Mora
Dedicated Feature
How Vlogging Helped This Latinx Actress Land Her First Major Gig
Often, influencer culture and envy go hand in hand: Here’s a photo of someone on a glamorous beach vacation; someone else in a designer dress; someone el
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R29 Team
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