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DJ Riobamba Spins Music, Politics and Community Together

DJ Riobamba Spins Music, Politics and Community Together

If you live in New York and enjoy its endless and eclectic nightlife, chances are, you know DJ Riobamba. Sara Skolnick, the Ecuadorian-Lithuanian DJ, and producer has been a staple in the nightlife scene and music industry for the past eight years — in recent years, she has started to

Woman Are Talking About Their Abortions And It Is Empowering

Woman Are Talking About Their Abortions And It Is Empowering

When I was 19 years old I had an abortion. Very few people know. Now you know too. I was in a college psychology class when I got the call. I remember my world spinning out of control, as if all the things that mattered to me was no longer

Latinx Artist Criselda Vasquez Paints A Dedication To La Lucha

Latinx Artist Criselda Vasquez Paints A Dedication To La Lucha

Criselda Vasquez paints her familia as they’ve never been seen - powerful, dignified, and front and center. Her large-scale portraits celebrate Latinx identity, reclaim space in the art world, and challenge cultural erasure with every brushstroke.

The Supreme Court is Making Moves That Impact Women of Color

The Supreme Court is Making Moves That Impact Women of Color

If there is anything women should be informed about is the Supreme Court or SCOTUS decisions that could potential impact or threaten our quality of life. For women of color, the threat is deeper especially when access to reproductive health care, fair pay, workplace protections and union benefits, can be

Stop Feeding Us Heteronormativity: El Futuro Es Queer

Stop Feeding Us Heteronormativity: El Futuro Es Queer

Pride can be so intimidating, loud, and appear to be something so fearless, yet some of us are not there yet, are not in a safe space to “come out”, or did not always feel this way. When we think about pride, it has lost its meaning from what it

The Future Of The Party Are Women of Color And They Are Coming For Your Congressional Seats

The Future Of The Party Are Women of Color And They Are Coming For Your Congressional Seats

Step aside, women of color aren’t waiting ‘for our turn’ to take over the archaic, ‘grey suited’ seats that are no longer working for the United States. The political courage to step up and take over are definitely within our reach and trailblazers like Shirley Chrisholm, the first African

Here Are Ways To Help Immigrant Families Being Separated At The Border

Here Are Ways To Help Immigrant Families Being Separated At The Border

By now you have seen the photograph of a two-year old immigrant, Honduran asylum seeker crying hysterically as the toddler and her mother were taken into custody at the US-Mexico border. The heart-wrenching image taken by John Moore, a special correspondent and senior staff photographer for Getty

An Ode To Mi Pa - To My Father

An Ode To Mi Pa - To My Father

I sat in my apartment “studying” for finals listening to music and drinking tequila with friends when someone played, “Que falta me hace mi padre” on Youtube Cómo lo voy a olvidar Siempre lo tengo en mi mente El me enseño a trabajar Me aconsejó a ser decente After a

The Old Threadbare Lie - How Rape And Race Are Interlinked Still In Time of Trump

The Old Threadbare Lie - How Rape And Race Are Interlinked Still In Time of Trump

“Well, somebody’s doing the raping, Don! I mean somebody’s doing it! Who’s doing the raping? Who’s doing the raping?” Trump exclaimed on CNN while being interviewed by Don Lemon. Trump elaborated further, “Well if you look at the statistics of people coming, you look at the

Afro-Latina Artist Harmonia Rosales Painted God As a Black Woman And People Lost Their Collective Shit

Afro-Latina Artist Harmonia Rosales Painted God As a Black Woman And People Lost Their Collective Shit

Harmonia Rosales is an Afro-Latina artist who does one thing we can totally get behind – she ‘flips the art canvas script’ literally, by doing her own take of the world’s most renowned works of art (with male subjects, white males) with Black women/ women of color as the

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