Finally, A Twitter Party about AfroLatina Women! {Join us – March 13th}

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  Join in – A Twitter Party about AfroLatina Women! I’m co-hosting a Twitter Party with Angélica of NEW LATINA about AfroLatina women! Join us Tuesday, March 13th at 9PM EST on Twitter at hashtag #NLAfroLatina for a discussion about AfroLatina culture, heritage, self-image, identity, natural hair and more. Several other influential bloggers will be there, [...]

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For Many Latinos, Racial Identity Is More Culture Than Color {NYTimes}

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Monica Almeida/The New York Times “Believe me, I am not a confused person. I know who I am, but I don’t necessarily fit the categories well,” said Erica Lubliner, a medical school graduate of Mexican and Jewish heritage. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ A friend sent me this great article from the New York Times about how 1/3 of [...]

#MixedFam Q&A: Ruby from Growing Up Blackxican

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This post is part of a series of interviews with families like ours, who are ‘mixed’ and Latino.  Read more interviews here: MixedFam Q&A Ruby is a wife and mother to 2 little ones. She is the Blogger at growingupblackxican.com, where she blogs about raising her kids to be proud of their 2 cultures – Black and Mexican. Her family [...]

#MixedFam Q&A: Interview with Dash Harris, Journalist & Digital Strategist

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This post is part of a series of interviews with families like ours, who are ‘mixed’ and Latino.  Read more interviews here: MixedFam Q&A I’m very excited to share with you, half of my interview with Dash Harris, a journalist in NYC who is enthralled in her own personal and professional exploration of Latino identity. [...]

#MixedFam Q&A: Jonathan A. Barrera Mikulich, Latino Branding Power

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This post is part of a series of interviews with families like ours, who are ‘mixed’ and Latino.  Read more interviews here: MixedFam Q&A Jonathan A. Barrera Mikulich is the owner of Latino Branding Power, a web portál dedicated to exploring the ideas, strategies, and insights that deliver cultural value within Hispanic marketing communications and [...]

#MixedFam Q&A: Carla Molina, Mixed Mom Raising Multiracial Latina Daughters

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This post is part of a series of interviews with families like ours, who are ‘mixed’ and Latino.  Read more interviews here: MixedFam Q&A Carla Molina is a writer with a fierce curiosity and a deep desire to inspire people. She studied philosophy in college and credits it with giving her idea-itis (or being a [...]

#MixedFam Q&A: Ana María Gómez, Venezuelan Immigration Attorney

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This post is part of a series of interviews with families like ours, who are ‘mixed’ and Latino.  Read more interviews here: MixedFam Q&A #MixedVida Bio & Interview Ana María Gómez and her husband, Richard, have two boys and her lovely step-daughter. She was born in Lafayette, Louisiana and raised in Venezuela. Ana graduated from Universidad [...]

#MixedFam Q&A: Interview With Tara Villanueva, Writer & Polynesian Dancer

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This post is part of a series of interviews with families like ours, who are ‘mixed’ and Latino.  Read more interviews here: MixedFam Q&A Tara Villanueva is of Puerto-Rican, Hawaiian, and Filipina heritage.  She is a singer-songwriter, polynesian dancer and graphic designer in Washington, D.C., where she lives with her partner, Dan, and son, Kai. [...]

#MixedFam Q&A: Angélica Pérez of NewLatina.net

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This post is part of a series of interviews with families like ours, who are ‘mixed’ and Latino.  Read more interviews here: MixedFam Q&A Angélica Pérez-Litwin, PhD is best known as the creative force, Publisher and CEO, of NEW LATINA, a bicultural lifestyle online destination for today’s ambitious Latina. Angélica’s career as a Clinical Psychologist [...]