Our community must retake its rightful place as the driving force behind what Latinx content prevails

comments (idare@womensmediacenter.com or #wmcIDARE) is creating a space for conversation about the impact of this iconic musical, adapted as a film in 1961. We begin with three leading Latina thinkers because the memory and experience of our community matter.

Hollywood would rather produce more “ethnic” stories and sell them back to us instead of facilitating reparative measures or narrative justice. Frances Negrón-Muntaner breaks it down.

From representation to façade: Grisel Acosta takes us through how West Side Story captivated, then angered her

Little space has been offered to the voices of the real Puerto Rican migrants West Side Story was attempting to characterize. Here, Blanca Vázquez talks about the effects of this decades-old production.