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How Beauty Brand Sweet Street Cosmetics Is Celebrating LA Latina Culture & Aesthetics

Mariana Viera — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 22:18:16 +0000

Latina women and femmes have been thinking up and perfecting hyperlocal fashion and beauty trends for the better part of the last century. For years, Los Angeles born- and -raised digital creators, entrepreneurs and storytellers Natalia Durazo and LaLa Romero have been documenting and honoring that very history. And now their new makeup line, Sweet

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REVIEW: ‘In the Dream House’ Recounts a Queer Latina’s Relationship With an Abusive Partner

Mariana Viera — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 21:38:05 +0000

There’s nothing conventional about Carmen Maria Machado’s new memoir, In the Dream House. Neither its subject nor its approach is quite like anything that’s ever been published before. Through narrative tropes like erotica, lesbian pulp novel, noir and American Gothic, she recounts the years she spent in a relationship with a woman who was both

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‘Vida’s Honest Sex Scenes Honor the Multitudes of Latina Sexuality

Mariana Viera — Fri, 31 May 2019 21:27:33 +0000

The depiction of women’s sexuality and sex acts on-screen has long been the dominion of men. While a patriarchal society has often regarded women’s real-life autonomous expressions of sexuality repulsive, shameful, and wrong, men have never faltered in their fascination with displaying it in film and television. Men’s obsession with producing images of female sex

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