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28 Sep

15 Latine Models Who Spoke About Their Struggles In

She told Teen Vogue, "The best way I incorporate my Latinidad in my work and advocacy is at all times ensuring that each opportunity or any work I’m in highlights me as I'm: gay, Puerto Rican, and Latino. I at all times take into account my people, and I need to be certain that I'm representing us in a light-weight of representation not only as a Latino, but a plus-size Latino. Even in a recent beauty and fragrance campaign that I just shot because the only, and perhaps the primary, plus-size male model and Latino to be in a significant beauty campaign, I wore a Latino-designed piece for it. I need to be certain that there’s...
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19 Jun

These photos explore queer Latine youth culture in LA

Jester Bulnes’ recent photo book is devoted to ‘the women, the gays, the dolls, the Latin ‘slayers’ and anyone who’s ever felt like they don’t belong’ It’s astonishing for an artist born in 2002 to not have an internet portfolio – much more so after they’re a photographer raised on the web. As a substitute, Jester Bulnes keeps their bubbly orange hard disk drive, filled with photographs which have never seen the blue light of day, near their chest. Only a number of have ever escaped, their contents hinting at a secret personal project. 4 years later, the clues have manifested as DENTRO – their self-published physical body of labor, a preview of their...
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15 Oct

Latine Female Founders Discuss Breaking Barriers, Scaling a Business

To shut out Hispanic Heritage Month, DealmakeHers, an invite-only community of influential female executives, hosted a “Celebrating Latina Disruptors” forum moderated by MSNBC’s Daniela Pierre-Bravo and Forbes’ Maggie McGrath on Friday. On the forum, six Latina founders, including Ceremonia founder Babba Rivera; Birdies cofounder Bianca Gates; Latin American Fashion Summit cofounder Estefania Lacayo; Curamia cofounder Dafna Mizrahi; Wondermind cofounder Daniella Pearson and Cuyana cofounder Karla Gallardo, spoke about their respective skilled journeys, how they've scaled their businesses despite facing higher barriers to entry and funding and the trail toward making a business ecosystem with increased racial parity.  Kicking off the discussion, Pierre-Bravo spoke with McGrath with about her recently released book, “The Other,” which goals to function a guide for navigating the...
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