Last month was Latin Month or #Latinidad at @TinyDeskConcerts
Two mentions that stick to me

Silvana Estrada, mexican songs from and with the heart. https://www.npr.org/2025/10/15/g-s1-92211/silvana-estrada-tiny-desk-concert

#Chuwi, Puerto Rican band that mixes a lot of styles to songs with a message. https://www.npr.org/2025/09/25/g-s1-77936/chuwi-tiny-desk-concert

At my high school, we were required to have regular meetings with the college counselor starting in junior year. They would get more intense as the clock ticked toward senior year college application season, but the first meeting was a get-to-know-you. Couselors would get a sense of your goals, and start to get the ground ready by making a connection between our current […]

https://hammerandjack.com/journal/2023/10/dia-de-los-muertos/

A new book review by a friend of mine. Worth it for the Playlist at the end.

#Latinidad #PostPunk

https://newlinesmag.com/review/how-crossing-the-texas-mexico-border-in-the-1980s-led-to-a-trans-atlantic-musical-awakening/

Should've seen the look I gave when someone who is NOT a Spanish speaker say Bad Bunny is pure vulgarity. 😑

Nena, if you don't understand what he's saying, please refrain from having an opinion. You sound like the abuelas swearing up & down que all rap music es malo.

You need to 🤫.

#Latinidad #BadBunny

My non-white family:

On the one hand, they wage a culture war against us, trying to make us disappear.

On the other, they try to appropriate our culture and our cool—and our coolness comes from being marginalized.

#Latine #Latinidad #appropriation #HotCheetoGirl #Cool #CultureWar

TikTok and popular music are co-opting Latinx culture : NPR

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/10/1135893640/how-latin-identity-became-fodder-for-content

Omar Ruiz-Lopez of Violet Bell discusses his approach to identity on episode 6 of the Rainbow Rodeo podcast.

Subscribe today!

https://directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/d6fa0f62-594e-490d-a70c-ce47b37d35c1

#queercountry #lgbtqpodcast #americana #folkmusic #musodon #podcast #nonbinary #GenderIdentity #gender #latinx #latinidad #latino

De los significados, usos y confusiones en torno a lo "latino"

https://www.lamarea.com/2020/10/14/por-supuesto-los-espanoles-y-espanolas-son-latinos-y-latinas/
#latino #hispanidad #latinidad #Latinoamérica #España #identidades #lenguaje #léxico #Europa #Historia #colonialismo #América #americano #americana https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-605f-8f04-9c97-fde775199908

i wrote about #disability, #latinidad, and #theshapeofwater yesterday! (feel free to share to support an #actuallyautistic #cripplepunk #spoonie writer!)

https://medium.com/@charlie.spiegel/disability-race-and-the-shape-of-water-108381ac0019