Latino arts, history and culture
How The Clothes We Wear Tell Us We Are Not “Normal” This weekend I had the occasion to do a lot of shopping and came back to a tired realization about who I am as a Latina in this country. According … [Read more...]
Why I Feel Kinship With Other Latinos. I’m a pocha who grew up in LA with family from Texas who speaks Spanish I learned between Monterrey and the South Texas border. If you were to put me into a … [Read more...]
My Memories Of Liza Longoria, QEPD. Sunday morning I turned on my computer to find that my friend and former colleague at The Brownsville Herald, Liza Longoria, had died at the age of 35. I was … [Read more...]
Without Technology, Latinos Are Going Nowhere. I am definitely not the smartest person I know, nor am I the most technologically savvy. And yet, oftentimes it strikes me that in the world of … [Read more...]
SANS RACKSPACE, JULIAN CASTRO, WHAT'S THE BACK-UP PLAN FOR SA? San Antonio has been booming the past few years. You see the city on all of these lists — fastest growing, booming, etc. — and for … [Read more...]
THE PRICE OF AUSTIN'S 'GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT'? CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT. Recently I was telling a friend about Austin’s “Gentleman’s Agreement” to only allow one Latino and one black … [Read more...]
FOR ME SUCCESS IS ABOUT “WE,” NOT “ME.” I always think that, together, we can do bigger things than we can as separate individuals. I believe this in the core of my being. All of my professional … [Read more...]
3 WAYS WENDY DAVIS RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR OF TEXAS WOULD AFFECT LATINOS. Wendy Davis, according to my sources and the hints she’s been dropping, is going to make a run for Texas governor. The state … [Read more...]
FORGET "DEVIOUS MAIDS" THE GLASS CEILING IS MUCH MORE COMPLICATED FOR LATINAS. “Devious Maids” seems to have captured the attention, or rather ire, of most of the people I know. There’s all kinds … [Read more...]
WALKING IN SEARCH OF CÉSAR CHÁVEZ. Jorge Chino has watched with both fear and pride over the years as Latinos in this country have risen and fallen with the tide of anti-immigrant sentiment. … [Read more...]
LATINOS, IMMIGRANTS LEAN LEFT: THE BEGINNING OF THE END FOR THE GOP? A report from the Pew Research Center shows that, without a doubt, immigrants and their children (Latino immigrants in … [Read more...]
WOULD ONLINE VOTER REGISTRATION INCREASE THE LATINO VOTE? A question that burns on every politico’s mind these days is how to engage more Latinos in the electoral process. Although we are 17% of … [Read more...]
WHERE ARE THE LATINO BLOGGERS? I live on the Internet, so, sometimes my perspective on things can be a bit warped. How some people have managed to avoid Facebook and Twitter escapes me, for … [Read more...]
I’M LATINA & PHILANTHROPY IS IMPORTANT TO ME. I don’t have a lot of money. But, with the money that I do have, I try to make a point to give back where I can. After Hurricane Sandy I donated … [Read more...]
CREATING THE FUTURE - A TO-DO LIST FOR LATINOS. Okay, big deal, Latino voters were super important in this year’s election — now what? The important thing to think about when we talk about “Latino … [Read more...]
The Latino Vote: Did the Sleeping Dragon awake? Everywhere you turn these days people are hyperventilating to “the Latino vote” and how pivotal it was during this election. Latino voters accounted … [Read more...]
Why Speaking Spanglish Is Important To Me. I find it very difficult in my personal life to complete a conversation without wanting to switch to Spanish, or to English, depending on which language I … [Read more...]
GLASS-HALF FULL OR HALF EMPTY? Two seemingly contradictory realities collided in my world recently. On the one hand, it seemed like the racists in attendance at the Republican National Convention … [Read more...]
Why I Vote. As the 2012 election approaches, all this buzz about “the Latino vote” is starting to amp up. I remember a similar buzz about this voting bloc in 2010. In that election the narrative … [Read more...]
THAT AWKWARD MOMENT WHEN I BECAME A STEREOTYPE. Recently, I was eating bean tacos for dinner when a friend of mine comically pointed out to me: “Sara, you are such a stereotype right now!” The … [Read more...]
NO LATINA IS AN ISLAND. One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned in life is that, whatever I do in life, everything I do, and am, is the result of the presence of others in my life. Which is to say, … [Read more...]
