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
It has been twenty-one years since Selena Quintanilla; the beloved Tejano singer died, and the influence of her music, style, and overall celebrity status remain relevant today. No doubt the legacy of Selena will forever live on in our community and mainstream. Selena was known for wearing her staple
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
September 12, 2016, will go down in comedy history as the day that “Saturday Night Live” (“SNL”) woke up from a 41-year old long lasting nap. The day when they realized that the lack of diversity in the cast cost them viewership. The folks over at SNL finally came
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
Netflix has been on the forefront of original programming for some years now, and it is no surprise that the media giant is set to spend six billion dollars in original programming this year alone. It is also known for the diverse programming with series like Orange Is The New
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
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