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Between Two Cultures: The Highs & Lows of Growing Up Latino & Asian in the US

Jessica N Diaz-Hurtado — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 21:45:03 +0000

Belonging to an immigrant community in the United States is hard enough as it is. Between not seeing accurate or positive portrayals of yourself in the media and not necessarily fitting in with your peers, you become filled with questions about identity. Now, imagine being a part of two separate immigrant communities – that is,

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This Queer Mexican Danza Group is Redefining Tradition While Being Fly AF

Jessica N Diaz-Hurtado — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 18:15:11 +0000

Whatever comes to mind when you think of Mexican folclor, Mexico de Colores is here to turn that on its head. The Mexico City-based, all-male dance group blends ballet folclor inspirations with queer themes, upending expectations for an art form that is typically danced by a woman and a man. Donning makeup and cross-dressing in

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Inside the Complex Race and Gender Politics Behind Rio’s Biggest Street Party

Jessica N Diaz-Hurtado — Fri, 12 Feb 2016 18:49:52 +0000

It is February in Rio. The streets pulsate with bateria, samba and streams of color painted across the city. People are dressed in costumes bathed in glitter and jewels. On every corner there are different blocos you run into where people are parading the streets, young and old. The city literally shuts down for it

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5 Artists & Vendors Repping for Chicago Latinidad

Jessica N Diaz-Hurtado — Wed, 10 Feb 2016 20:40:43 +0000

It’s an exciting time to be an artist of color in Chicago. While the media creates a violent narrative of the city, its underground art scene is flourishing – and collectives of musicians, visual artists, writers, nightlife movers and shakers, and more are creating work that reflects how Latino identity intersects with the larger Chicago community. Many of these creatives have been

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On His First Trip to Rio, Sango Talks Honoring Baile Funk’s Roots

Jessica N Diaz-Hurtado — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 00:41:27 +0000

Seattle beatmaker Sango just completed his first tour in Brazil, along with Joe Kay of Los Angeles beat collective Soulection. Known for his heavy funk carioca sound, Sango finally had the opportunity to showcase his work in the city that influences much of his music: Rio de Janeiro. Back in November 2015, he released Da Rocinha 3, a firestorm of baile

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When Oppression Thrives in Social Justice Spaces: How Las Cafeteras Can Teach Latinos to Speak Out

Jessica N Diaz-Hurtado — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 20:09:57 +0000

“Your silence will not protect you.” -Audre Lorde For those of us mujeres who have worked in social justice and creative spaces with cisgender men, an all-too-real pattern of silencing has taken root. From the Black Panthers to the Chicano movement, women have been shunned, interrupted, and relegated to the limelight in decision-making processes. Our struggles

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El Teatro Campesino, the Nation’s Most Important Chicano Theater Company, Celebrates 50 Years

Jessica N Diaz-Hurtado — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 19:20:56 +0000

When it began in Delano, California in the 1960s, El Teatro Campesino held its performances in flatbed trucks and told the stories of migrant workers. Born on the Delano Grape Strike picket lines of Cesar Chavez’s United Farm Workers Union, the company made a name for itself by dramatizing and contextualizing the struggles of farmworkers – and more

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10 Up and Coming Latinx Poets You Need to Know

Jessica N Diaz-Hurtado — Wed, 07 Oct 2015 18:43:41 +0000

Editor’s Note: In 2003, Newsweek proclaimed the death of poetry. “It is difficult to imagine a world without movies, plays, novels and music, but a world without poems doesn’t have to be imagined,” the author wrote. “I find it disturbing that no one I know has cracked open a book of poetry in decades and

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6 Bizarre Odes to Chikungunya, the Mosquito-Borne Virus Taking Over Latin America

Jessica N Diaz-Hurtado — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 18:49:12 +0000

Chikungunya is similar to dengue, a virus transmitted through mosquitoes that’s common throughout the Caribbean. Discovered in the Americas for the first time in 2013, it has already affected thousands of people. Chikungunya usually puts people out for a week or so, plaguing its victims with achy joint pains. Although the symptoms are painful, bizarrely enough, artists throughout Latin

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Murders, Gangs, and Hope: A Brief History of the Criminalization of Baile Funk in Brazil

Jessica N Diaz-Hurtado — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 18:36:03 +0000

From its beginnings, baile funk (more commonly known as funk in Brazil) has long been ostracized as a deviant and violent culture. Baile funk, influenced by American funk and soul, emerged in favelas during the 1980s under Brazil’s military dictatorship. Influenced by 1960s Black Rio/Black Soul, a Brazilian soul movement that enabled Brazilians to claim a

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