Tag Archives: beauty
The Dress: What an Indigenous Woman’s Gown Tells Us About Sofía Vergara’s Golden Globe Pick
January 14, 2013
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Magdalena Quinilla Batz is not Sofía Vergara. Odds are she will never strut down the Golden Globes red carpet wearing a Gucci gown. When you look at Magdalena you can almost convince yourself that the red carpet is part of Read More...
TWLC’s Viviana Hurtado Interviews Mary Mary or How I Added Reality Star to My Resume
June 5, 2012
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“Are you in DC this weekend? Urgent call me back.” ¡Ay! This text came on Friday which is my busiest day of the week since it’s when I publish The Wise Latina Club‘s weekly newsletter. Plus it was the last day Read More...
Beauty: Skin (Soul & Brains & Heart) Deep
May 28, 2012
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In the confessional: This is different for me to write and for you to read. No politics. No Election 2012. No civic engagement. The side you know all too well, as my heart beats in every post that aims to Read More...
Medieval Instruments of Tortura?
February 15, 2011
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Like our African-American, African, Mediterranean, and Middle Eastern sisters, curly-topped Latinas follow the humidity index like entry-level CIA analysts are monitoring the revolutions in the Middle East. Mami has light brown, fine, straight hair, and struggled with not one unruly Read More...
J-LO: Gillette Gams of Gold
February 5, 2011
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Jennifer Lopez is likely the first chica to get insurance on her headline-making bootay (which is something Latinas, particularly Caribeñas never understood. J-LO’s tush is no fuss for us. It’s normál-sized). Now, she’s the first Hispana to be the face Read More...
Globe Is Golden, Lovely Ladies are Latinas
January 17, 2011
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I would need hours of plastic surgery, power yoga, and makeup to look like JLO, Eva Longoria, Sofía Vergara, or Naya Rivera. But it sure is nice to see women who look more like me than most of the ladies Read More...
The Wise Latina Club: The Manifesto
January 17, 2011
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Manifesto: A public declaration of principles and intentions. Could have political or religious connotations. A life stance. From the Latin “manifestare”: to make public. Related to the verb “manifest”: to display or show; appear; become apparent; prove. The Wise Latina Read More...
