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Ironheart is Reportedly Looking to Cast a ‘Black, Latina or Afro-Latina’ Trans Woman

Marvel Studios is reportedly looking to cast a smart, confident transgender female character in the Disney+ series Ironheart. According to POC Culture, Marvel sent out a casting call for the upcoming series for a “Black, Latina or Afro-Latina transgender” actress between 18 and 22 years old. If the studio follows through with casting a trans actor, the Ironheart actress would be the fourth trans actor to appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and third trans woman. Continue reading Ironheart is Reportedly Looking to Cast a ‘Black, Latina or Afro-Latina’ Trans Woman →

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Meet Bella Dose, the Bilingual Latina Girl Group Taking Over TikTok

By Marilyn La Jeunesse, Glamour

Sitting on the floor leaning against the edge of a bed with their eyes fastened shut, the four members of Bella Dose, the world’s first bilingual Latin pop girl group, harmonize to Billie Eilish’s song “Goldwing.” Continue reading Meet Bella Dose, the Bilingual Latina Girl Group Taking Over TikTok →

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Afro-Latinx Artist Reyna Noriega Is Using Art to Uplift Brown and Black Women

By Shayne Rodriguez Thompson, Pop Sugar

In 2017, Afro-Latinx visual artist Reyna Noriega began her career as a full-time creator. Little did she know that in just a few short years, she would have over 100,000 followers on Instagram, would be working with huge brands like Apple and Old Navy, and would design a cover for The New Yorker. Continue reading Afro-Latinx Artist Reyna Noriega Is Using Art to Uplift Brown and Black Women →

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Amaury Vidales holds a shirt with a number so viewers of her "Amaury's Accessories" livestream can comment and purchase the shirt through a Facebook Live event inside of her Eden Prairie, Minn., home on March 10.

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Latina entrepreneurs find a space online to thrive in pandemic

By Kathryn Styer Martinez

Amaury Vidales goes live weekly on her Facebook page, Amaury Accesorios, to show prospective shoppers what new things she has to sell — but it’s not just another virtual boutique.

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She was American’s first Latina to captain a flight. Now, she’s a pioneer poet, too

BY WALTER VILLA, MIAMI HERALD

In 2000, Linda Pauwels became a pioneer pilot, the first Latin woman ever to captain an American Airlines flight.

Now she’s a pioneer poet, too. Continue reading She was American’s first Latina to captain a flight. Now, she’s a pioneer poet, too →

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Sasha Calle attends the Television Academy Daytime Programming Cocktail Reception at Television Academy's Wolf Theatre at the Saban Media Center on August 28, 2019 in North Hollywood, California

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DC Universe’s Latina ‘Supergirl’ makes history

By Sonia Ramirez

Sasha Calle was in tears when she got the news from director Andy Muschietti that she had landed the coveted role of Supergirl for the upcoming DC movie “The Flash.”

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‘We Are Not The Footnote’: In Photos, Reynaldo Rivera Evokes L.A.’s Queer Latino Bohemia

Reynaldo Rivera didn’t pick up a camera with the intention of making art. The Yashica he retrieved from a pile of his father’s things was a way of bringing order to a peripatetic life that had him bouncing between the care of his mother, his grandmother and his father, between Mexicali and Los Angeles, between Stockton and San Diego de la Unión, a small, agricultural outpost in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato.

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Meet Isabel Ibañez, The Voice of a New Generation of Latinx Authors

Our Latinx community is full of talent. From musicians to writers, and everything in between, Latinx are creative minds that continue thriving in their spaces while opening paths to their audiences to do the same.

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Guillaume Kientz Named Director at Hispanic Society

The former curator at the Louvre in Paris will take on the task of reinvigorating the struggling museum, which has been closed for renovations since 2017.

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