- via The Huffington Post Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich criticized his party for failing to reach out to Latino voters in an article published Sunday, part of a somewhat contradictory approach to courting Latino voters while he also calls for English to be the official language of the United States and opposes comprehensive immigration… [Continue Reading]
Newt Gingrich courts Latino voters while calling for English-only government
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Can we ever reclaim insulting words?
10/26/2011 By 1 Comment
Apparently, a bunch of sluts were running around my city recently. I’m talking, of course, about the SlutWalk movement, which began earlier this year when a Toronto cop implied that women who dressed like “sluts” deserved to get raped. Outraged at the cop’s statement, women all over North America hit the streets both to protest… [Continue Reading]
Eye candy and breast cancer
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- via NPR There are several reasons to be ambivalent about the Your Man Reminder app, and only one of them is sexy. Released just a few days ago, the app comes from ReThink Breast Cancer, a Canadian nonprofit whose website promises it will raise “bold, relevant awareness” about breast cancer by infusing “sass and… [Continue Reading]
When is it losing our Latino?
10/26/2011 By 3 Comments
It was a peculiar feeling of bipolarity. During the day I had been consumed with worry about the fact that despite my best intentions, my children are not growing up to be seamlessly fluent in two languages. I figured it was going to be challenging, since their father is monolingual, but that day I was… [Continue Reading]
Moreno, Leguizamo talk Latin life in ‘Hollywouldn’t’
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- via NPR Rita Moreno — the only Latino performer to win an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony — is reprising some of her most memorable characters in a solo show at the Berkeley Repertory Theater. Up the coast in Los Angeles, John Leguizamo, who co-starred opposite Al Pacino in Carlito’s Way… [Continue Reading]