Tag Archives: women
VIDEO: ¿César-Chávez-Google-Doodle-Easter-Non-troversy?
April 2, 2013
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I normally stay away–far away–from “link bait“–internet stories that are so outrageous, they exist to stir up trouble and clicks, such as the current controversy over the Easter Sunday Google Doodle, not featuring a risen Jesus Christ, but César Chávez. Read More...
Career: Julie Chávez Rodríguez to Latinas, “¡Sí Se Puede!”
March 28, 2013
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When you are an ambitious and/or successful Latina, you are a role model no matter what. That’s because despite our consolidation of power as an economic and political bloc, a gap remains, especially in terms of educational and career achievement. Simply Read More...
Wordless Wednesday/Miércoles Mudo: Cuban Dissident Blogger Yoani Sánchez
March 20, 2013
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On a three month world wide tour, dissident Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez who writes Generación Y spoke at the libertarian think tank the Cato Institute in Washington, DC. For this Wordless Wednesday or Miércoles Mudo post, I show photographs snapped Read More...
The Wise Latina Club’s Viviana Hurtado Wins New Americano Award at SXSW
March 8, 2013
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When I started The Wise Latina Club more than two years ago, I never thought a blog primarily for Hispanic women to learn about politics and how to get involved in their communities would grow into a nationally recognized website, expanding Read More...
SLIDESHOW: The Faces of the Great Immigration Debate
March 4, 2013
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Great women come from every corner of the world. Fortunately for us, many brilliant ones have brought their talents to the United States. In honor of the beginning of Women’s History Month we collected photographs of female immigrants who became important figures in Read More...
Columbia Journalism Review: The Wise Latina Club “Awesome Blog”
February 27, 2013
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¡Virgen Santísima! This time my Chief Reputation Monitor, i.e. Mami (Google alerts have nothing on this lady’s internet scouring abilities), did not discover that the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) selected The Wise Latina Club as one of five “awesome blogs Read More...
UPDATED: Published in the Huffington Post! The Feminine Mystique of Beyoncé
February 26, 2013
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Click here to read The Feminine Mystique of Beyoncé published in the Huffington Post. Fifty years ago, Betty Friedan published the critically-acclaimed, ground-breaking–The Feminine Mystique. The “mother” of the second wave of American feminism sought the answer to the question: Why Read More...
Latinas for Latino Literature: Las Comadres Twitter Party
February 4, 2013
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I have some pretty amazing women in my life. From my mother, cousins, aunts (who is featured in my post “Our Beloved World: A Bronx Latina Attends Sotomayor Book Signing“), to my thesis adviser, academic program director, Honors College mentor, Read More...
