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Wellness + Self-Care contributor, Tamaya Garcia, Founder, Spanglish Vegan Kitchen Shifting Food Culture for Latino Families. I Share Life + Home Cooked Plant Based Dishes Using Healthy Latino-Centric Ingredients. All Vegan! I’m feeling really good about 39! I think it has a lot to do with my own acceptance
Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez Contributing Writer I was recently talking to a friend, he is an immigrant and from Mexico and he said something that I resounded with my being so intensely that I went home and had some wine and let that ruminate a bit before I came to
One of the toughest conversations to have is about, you guessed it: M-O-N-E-Y! Whether it is with your familia or your employer, business partner, and yes, FRIENDS – the topic of money is tough. Ask yourself, do you ever talk about money with your dearest friends, your
The Struggle is Real. Financial Struggles While In College…Are Real. Earlier this year, The Flama published a piece by Barbara Gonzalez on the struggles of 4 Latinas while in college trying to make financial ends meet. “It’s no wonder than many Latinos cite the main reason for going
Dear [American] white people traveling to Latin America and the Caribbean, I think too often trips are booked to “exotic” locations without any real understanding of what those trips mean to people living in these countries and how damaging it has all actually be to the communities. So if you
“In-a-world” (?? our bad ‘movie’ voice impression) of sensory overload and ‘screen’ distractions from ‘cat vids’ or reality shows on our mobile to desktop to our television sets (do we have any, anymore?) we are always ‘watching’ something. That’s why we found it so refreshing to be introduced
Being brown, and being very aware of how people react to your brownness is both a gift and a curse. I’ve had some brown friends who often times confused racism with lighthearted sarcasm. I stay away from these brown friends because they become defenders of White supremacy in a
Starting a business from scratch is one of the most challenging things on earth to do! Luckily, there is help and resources more than ever to meet the needs of Latina business owners or entrepreneurs building innovative products. First and foremost, Latinas WIN at beauty product purchasing and experimentation – spending
Credit: Artist – San Siguenza Truth is, Selena is timeless. So the announcement that a Selena Hollywood Star will forever live in Los Angeles/Hollywood is amazing. Her iconic style, beauty and talent are still so relevant to us all, Latinx. She will forever be one of us. Do we rock
In my early twenties I lost my first pregnancy. I was a young bride, and trying to become this thing that was scripted onto my body without my consent: a mom. With that in mind, after my first miscarriage, I lost it. People began to tell me the most inappropriate
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