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The BoldLatina Latinx Gift Guide

The BoldLatina Latinx Gift Guide

Don’t just talk about supporting the Latinx community–BE about it! All of the items in our rad holiday gift guide are from Latinx-owned business, and are fabulous items you would want to buy regardless of who made them. The ultimate win-win situation.   Photo Courtesy of Lil’

Karina Luna:  Actress, Comedian...And Chingona

Karina Luna: Actress, Comedian...And Chingona

A few months ago we got the news that SNL had casted its first Latina lead, Melissa Villaseñor. But Melissa is not the only outstanding Latinx comedian. She is part of a group of comediantes chingonas that have been hustling in the competitive world of entertainment. Image Credit: Instagram – Karina

Students of Color In Elite Institutions

Students of Color In Elite Institutions

Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez, Contributing Writer When you enter spaces meant for the elites, when you enter spaces meant for that small percentage of the population, when you enter spaces spaces that have almost exclusively been dominated and ran by white people YOU begin to change.  When you enter institutions

Not Cultural Brownness

Not Cultural Brownness

Latinidad is an ethnicity, it is a name given to people from an ancestral line that is traced to the Caribbean and/or Latin America. It is a descriptor, a check in a box; it is something that is not up for debate, you’re either Latinx or you’re

Undocumented, Educated and Unafraid

Undocumented, Educated and Unafraid

Gloria Rinconi Within a few weeks, my time as an intern with My (Un)documented life blog will come to an end. Yet it has given me the opportunity to be a voice for a community that is 11 million strong, hard working immigrants that are in search of the

Today We Mourn, Tomorrow We Fight

Today We Mourn, Tomorrow We Fight

“When do we have to leave before we get kicked out…” those were the words that my Abuelita uttered mere minutes after CNN announced that Trump had secured way above the 270 electoral votes needed to become the next President. Sitting in her wheelchair, and through her impaired speech (she

#Hence Is A Thing

#Hence Is A Thing

Here, at SupaDaily we were absolutely appalled (<—yes, it’s a ‘scholarly’ word, we use) to learn that a fellow woman of color was disrespected and falsely called out for plagiarism because a word, a word – ‘HENCE’ did not sound like a word she would say?! Tiffany Corin Martínez,

The Power of Your Vote

The Power of Your Vote

By the time you read this, the election will be TODAY. The phrases that resonate in your head go from “You’re a nasty woman!” “Build The Wall!” “Make America Great Again.” To more empowering like “When they go low, we go high!” “Don’t Boo, Vote!” “America Is Already

Guilty of Being Colombian

Guilty of Being Colombian

I was really excited to write about Phoenix for BoldLatina. The fry bread was off the hook, I went to great little stores, the vibe was great, and I had zero Arpaio-ish moments of discrimination. I had just wrapped up a great trip with my mother, where we visited

Gus. That Guy. - A Personal Essay

Gus. That Guy. - A Personal Essay

Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez Contributing Writer This is for those moments of dissonance.  This is for those moments that you cannot name what bugged you about someone’s statement, but you know it was not right.  This is for those moments that leave you silent, when you’re that person

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