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A simple Google search of “the best rom-coms of all time” will take you down a nostalgic hole of ’90s and early-’00s movies like “10 Things I Hate About You,” “While You Were Sleeping,” and “P.S. I Love You.” These classics, among many others, have shaped how we view love on screen. But through these films, we’ve learned what love looks like through white protagonists; many BIPOC communities have failed to see themselves reflected. While we saw Latine actresses like … Continue reading “Camila Mendes on Why We Need More Latine Representation in Rom-Coms”

I’ve always been obsessed with horror. From childhood, when I bunked with my siblings and primas, we told each other spooky stories in the middle of the night to rock ourselves to sleep. Every evening we would take turns telling stories, and the stories seemed to get scarier and scarier. When it was my night to tell a story to the group, I knew I had to bring the best jump scares. I’d find myself spinning stories until my sisters’ … Continue reading “Saraciea Fennell: “The Black Girl Survives in This One” Is the Representation I Didn’t See in Horror Books”

In the music video for her piano-driven interlude “Bambi,” Bodine poses in the middle of a dense forest, artistically garbed in assorted animal bones as she croons over the black and white footage with an ear-catching voice that straddles mezzo and alto ranges. The visual doubled as an announcement video for her sophomore EP, “Quemo Lento,” which dropped last month. Still, if anyone got the impression the project would hinge on somber instrumentals, her other tracks quickly proved them wrong. … Continue reading “Tell Me Más: Bodine Talks New Album “Quemo Lento” and Growing From Hardships”