The following is my talk from the Latism 2011 panel titled Social Media Disruption: Finding Your Voice.  It was my pleasure and honor to be with panel leader Julio Ricardo Varela of Latino Rebels, Lisa Stone, co-founder and CEO of Blogher and Catherine Connors of Her Bad Mother and Babble.  If you attended, you’ll see some words and [...]

Have you watched CNN’s Latino in America? What did you think? I watched it, and along with some other big mouths on the bilingual webosphere, I feel it focused too narrowly on Latinos in dire straights. I would have called the two-part series “Some Latinos in America.” For reaction, you can watch the comic Mike [...]

Last month, I wondered aloud where all the Latina bloggers are hiding and introduced a round-up that unveiled some awesomeness. Well, now some ladies in Atlanta are planning a gathering for women of color who blog. Blogalicious will be held in October. Atlanta is just four hours from Nashville, so I’m planning to be there. Ven [...]

The cover story in USA Today yesterday was about the escalating stress Americans are dealing with — stress due to the recession and uncertainty. What caught my attention most was this passage about how Hispanics deal with “el ehstress.” Hispanics take it hard The particularly poor emotional health of Hispanics may be caused by cultural [...]

The Latina blogger link list up, down there to the right. You’ll notice my Cubana friends have their own separate category and so some of them are blog linked twice. Cubanitas,  I may edit you out of the Latina list and leave you in your own little space. Not sure.  But anyway, it has been [...]

I found this story as my morning coffee brewed and cracked up in the kitchen all by myself. Florida Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Cuban-American and a Republican, twice hung up on the President-Elect. She thought it was a Miami radio station pranking her.  Those guys in Canada who punked Candidate 2012 apparently left their mark [...]

Via a favorite site, Hispanic Trending, I found this column “Is the Latino Community Losing its Identity?”  by Zayda Rivera. A Puerto Rican by descent, she didn’t grow up speaking Spanish, but made the effort to better understand the language and her culture. She’s now making the effort with her 1-year-old. Part of the reason I want [...]

Butaca = easy chair. At my grandparents’ house there were two butacas. If they wanted in, you got out. Pronto. My grandmother’s butaca spun and rocked and if you tipped yourself back too far, you risked death by head smashing on the Terrazzo. Word is Butaca TV soon will be launching a beta version to [...]

Those who believe they love America more because they were here first and because they only speak English have been all about Barack Obama’s comment last week that we should teach our children to speak another language, namely Spanish. (Some discussions on Technorati here.) The blah and the plah of it makes me think about [...]

I made myself watch Cane again. Que paquete. I’m not even going to get into the fact the main character (Jimmy Smits) is a murderer, or that the balsero sounds like he has marbles in his mouth, or that ew, the main Cubanita marries her adopted brother. I just want to let the Cane writers [...]