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The Cheetah Girls
Gave Black Girls Like Me a Space to Dream
Zeniya Cooley
Aug 15, 2023
Somos Latinx
Why
Red, White & Royal Blue’s
Taylor Zakhar Perez Calls Alex a ...
Alicia Ramírez
Aug 10, 2023
Somos Latinx
Best Latine TV Shows of 2023
Nicole Froio
Aug 9, 2023
Entertainment
I Went To Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour As A Non-Swiftie & Left In A N...
I wouldn’t call myself a Swiftie. As an entertainment journalist, I have mad respect for Taylor Swift, the career she’s built, and the catchy bops and
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Melissah Yang
Unbothered
The Allegations Against Lizzo Are Distressing — But Never An Excu...
If you had to think of a current artist who most embodies self acceptance and self love, few seem more befitting than Lizzo. Since 2016, she’s been the p
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Banseka Kayembe
GG Good Game
This Latine Gaming Nonprofit Has One Goal: To Not Exist
Cristina Amaya has a very simple goal for Latinx in Gaming, the nonprofit she cofounded that aims to connect video game-loving Latines and help them thrive
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Patricia Karounos
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Fandemonium
The Financial Toll Of Fan Culture — Do You Have To Be Rich To Be ...
When I was 16 years old I was lucky enough to see Taylor Swift live for the first time. My sister and I pooled all our resources — birthday card cash, ba
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Esther Newman
Unbothered
Confessions From Black Women Who Sent Thirsty DMs To Their Crushes
“If you marry me, I am not against waking up at 3 am to bake scones,” reads a DM from an anonymous and evidently thirsty individual to Black Panther ac
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L'Oréal Blackett
Hot Girl Somos
Ivy Queen’s “Quiero Bailar” Is Still Essential (& Iconic) 20 Year...
Before Karol G, Natti Natasha, and Becky G, came Ivy Queen. The Puerto Rican pioneer undeniably revolutionized the reggaeton music scene when she challenge
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Victoria Leandra
GG Good Game
How To Get More Women Into Coding: Online Gaming
Game developer and Fullflower Studio founder Anne Shoemaker comes from a family of web developers, so she had some idea of what coding is well before most
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Patricia Karounos
Unbothered
The Ultimatum’s
Mal Wright Can See Your Thirsty DMs. Every...
Mal Wright refuses to wreck your home (even if you ask her nicely). The breakout star of Netflix’s The Ultimatum: Queer Love has had to deal with the “
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Kathleen Newman-B...
Fandemonium
Star Wars
& Its Fandom Made Me Question My Gender
“If all of your favorite characters, all the ones you identify with and find comfort in, are men…you should probably question your gender,” w
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Sofia Viera
Thirst Week
The Current State Of Celebrity Thirst With Bim Adewunmi & Nichole...
Naturally, the first thing you want to do when you develop a new all-consuming crush is tell a friend. From whispered confessions on the phone to passing n
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Kathleen Newman-B...
Entertainment
Concert Fashion Is A Key Part Of Fandom & Everyone’s Invited
Earlier this year my inner child was rocked to the core when I found out that RBD — the Mexican band formed out of the telenovela Rebelde — was going b
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Frances Solá-Sant...
Unbothered
Is
Barbie
Peak White Feminism? Does It Even Matter?
Even before there was a full trailer, Greta Gerwig’s third feature film Barbie has been a source of debate. In a cinematic landscape drowning in IP, woul
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Jourdain Searles
Unbothered
Ladies, Leave Your Man At Home & Go See Usher In Vegas
When we talk about music icons, no list can ever be complete without mentioning the generational talent that is Usher Raymond. Even after more than 30 year
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Ineye Komonibo
Fandemonium
Is Fandom An Obsession Or Is That The Misogyny Talking?
In the late 1990s, my mother received a phone call from a daytime talk show that wanted to do a segment on teenage girl fans. The theme? Obsession. My 13-y
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Alicia Lansom
Fandemonium
How Anime Made Me Love My Full Black Self
I grew up in Thousand Oaks, California. The palm trees were tall, Malibu was a 40-minute drive down the 101 freeway, and the population was less than 2% Bl
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Alexandra Polk
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Movies
Barbie
Is This Generation’s Feminist Movie
Spoilers ahead. Barbie is the feminist movie you’ve been waiting for. And I don’t mean that in a girl power, ultimate girlboss kind of way — even tho
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Patricia Karounos
Somos Latinx
Why the Latina
Snow White
Backlash Against Rachel Zegler M...
In July, photos of Disney’s new production of Snow White leaked, showing Rachel Zegler, the New Jersey-born actor of Colombian and Polish descent, in her
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Nicole Froio
Fandemonium
Screaming Crying Throwing Up? What Stan Culture Does To Your Brain
There are several ways to describe the outsize, almost alien reaction that stans experience when seeing their idol in person. Way back when it was attached
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Sadhbh O'Sullivan
GG Good Game
From Cowboy Hats To Summer Slides: Shop With Us On Twitch
Summer is the time for letting loose and having fun — and that includes our fashion choices. When else can you dress like a coastal cowgirl or elevate a
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Patricia Karounos
Unbothered
John Boyega And Teyonah Parris Talk
They Cloned Tyrone’s
T...
It would be easy to put They Cloned Tyrone into a neat little box alongside other Black-led sci-fi stories as of late that are also simmering with satire a
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Kathleen Newman-B...
Unbothered
Who To Watch At The 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup If You̵...
The 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup kicked off yesterday (July 20) in Australia and New Zealand, and it’s going to be the Blackest tournament yet. Wo
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Tamerra Griffin
Unbothered
Why Are We Still Policing How Black Women Dress?
If the recent online discourse has felt like déjà vu to you, reminiscent of a time when everyone had a say (except for themselves) in how women and femme
by
Shanetta McDonald
Somos Latinx
Ahead of His
La Vida Es Una
Tour, Myke Towers Preps for Hi...
If it were up to Myke Towers, he’d spend his summer like many of us: absorbing vitamin D on a sandy beach. But as much as the sunny outdoors might call t
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Brenda Barrientos
TV Shows
And Just Like That
Season 2 Is Peak Late-Stage Capitalism
Spoilers ahead. When Sex and the City premiered in 1998, it was truly revolutionary for its authentic depiction of the female experience on television (alb
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Zahra Campbell-Av...
Shopping
13 Ways To Get Into Your
Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)
Drop everything and meet us in the pouring rain. We’ve entered the Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) era aka the biggest moment of the year for the most ann
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Esther Newman
GG Good Game
For
Diablo IV
’s Tiffany Wat, Game Production Is Like Wed...
When it comes to working in the video game industry, the most obvious entry points are art and design. But, like many gamers already know, there’s a lot
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Patricia Karounos
Unbothered
Michelle Buteau’s
Survival Of The Thickest
& The Importanc...
Across literature and in television/film, the rom-com world has a bevy of tried and true cliches that fans come to be familiar with over the years. Enemies
by
Ineye Komonibo
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