WMC IDAR/E spotlights the voices of diverse Latinas on a range of current and emerging issues.
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The nation is expected to make herstory in June when one of two leading women candidates will be elected.
Chicana and Puerto Rican women who were in the trenches of historic protests and takeovers speak on the exclusion of their activism.
Miranda Rosales and Rosa Colón Guerra cut through the noise to get at the who and why of issues like climate change, colonialism and violence.
The movie's abuela character is a nod to Latina guerreras
We should take inspiration from Jovita Idar. We should also recognize the brutality of white supremacy in the Southwest.
The news media has little love for women in the prime of their lives
In a sea of leftist groups often challenged by toxic masculinity, activist working-class women created their own space in New York.
Community leaders know how to move Puerto Rico forward. We just need government agencies to stop pretending they know better.
Tributes to Latina journalists should not glaze over the harsh truths about the racism and misogyny they faced.
Francia Márquez, the country’s first Black woman elected to the vice presidency, is part of the progressive movement taking on a right-wing elite.
A police officer ended the life of this 75-year-old great-grandmother. A district attorney has yet to present charges.
Masses of Chileans have insisted on undoing the legacy of dictatorship there and transforming the South American nation through a Constitutional Assembly
In New York State, Roe v. Wade is codified into law. This is what Democrats must move to do federally.
Daisy Auger-Domínguez is determined to show that organizations that treat Latinos as the flavor of the month will be left behind.
Working hard enough to be ‘rewarded’ isn’t the path to equitable salaries
The confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown-Jackson are drawing both ugly and inspiring memories for Latinos
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.
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.
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.
A kissing bug disproportionately affects Latin American immigrants. Author Daisy Hernández talks about the lack of urgency around diseases thought to be uncommon or eradicated in the United States.
If SB8 represents the loss of the ultimate choice over our bodies, it is the pinnacle of choices lost to Tejanas that went seemingly ignored or unconnected to reproductive rights.
Amid a state of emergency around femicide in Puerto Rico, journalists and activists are challenging the normalization of sexist news coverage
Republicans have truth-telling teachers in their crosshairs as part of a renewed campaign to whitewash U.S. history
Lola Velázquez-Aguilu answered the call to serve as a special prosecutor, while Zurizadai Balmakund-Santiago insisted on being a part of the team pursuing accountability for the murder of George Floyd
Jineth Bedoya Lima has been forced to investigate her own case and take it to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
A recent WMC-hosted panel on the legacy of U.S. violence is a deep resource for all those covering and writing about the southern border and immigration policy.
A new podcast series is pushing audiences to get to why the people of Puerto Rico are forced to grin and bear crisis after crisis.
Apologists for cultural poseurs make plain the cleavages festering in our movements because of anti-blackness, internalized colonization, machismo and elitism.
Racial and ethnic grifting is a settler-colonial tradition that’s as American as Dutch apple pie.
Will a new Netflix documentary on the history of rock in Latin America give rockeras their proper tribute?
As the United States struggles to reaffirm its raison d'être, can the prospect of transformative change in a re-invigorated South American body politic become a new beacon for democracy?
Reporters-turned-media leaders have taken the reins on creating mentorship programs, setting off national conversations and launching independent platforms.
Reporters spend a lot of time focusing on the Christian right but ignore the masses of us committed to a ministry of justice.
The Confederate soldier-turned-Union spy published her own story. The South buried it.
As some media moved to put a box around the Latino vote, activists, leaders and journalists pushed back.
As the United States creeps towards Gilead, the people of Chile voted to rewrite their constitution with the mandated participation of 50% women.
Activist Erika Andiola discusses how this response avoids fundamental change, and how a Biden/Harris administration can send the right message on immigration.
The jury is still out on the impact of his comments on the Vatican, and at a time when Senate Republicans are pushing a conservative Catholic nominee.
There has been a 52% increase of Latinas incarcerated nationally
New York State Senator Jessica Ramos and activists are pushing to restrict the NYPD's use of drones to surveil people at First Amendment protected gatherings.
Our reclaimed pride in indigenous heritage is an opportunity for Latin American immigrants and U.S. First People to work as allies.
How many killings will it take for the government there to declare a state of emergency?
If we continue to see ourselves outside of Blackness, we risk becoming the ball and chain of the anti racism movement.
Latinx journalists will continue to be left out if we don't change our tactics
The Women’s Media Center launches a new digital channel publishing original stories and commentary by progressive, feminist Latinx women in both English and Spanish.
Reporters are experiencing trauma from covering ICE’s treatment of immigrants. But who's talking about it?
The corporate sector has refused to be ahead of the curve in diversity even though we’ve been sounding the alarm all along.