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There’s a New Selena y Los Dinos Documentary. Do We Need It?
I was skeptical going into the Sundance Film Festival premiere of Selena y Los Dinos, the new documentary about Selena Quintanilla directed by Isabel Castro (who also made Mija) in collaboration with the surviving Quintanilla family. At what point is it no longer about honoring the singer’s memory but profiting off Selena’s brief life? We’ve had so much posthumous content from the family’s Q Productions: the iconic 1997 movie Selena and Netflix’s underresourced 2020 Selena: The Series,...
Latines Lamented the TikTok Ban. Now Many Are Voluntarily Giving The App Up
From the so-called “spa water” videos that started a conversation on the cultural appropriation of agua fresca, to the catchy Brazilian funk snippets by MC Menor JP that got the whole world dancing, to the recent photo album collections inspired by Bad Bunny’s song “DtMF” that’s encouraging many to be present and treasure moments with their loved ones, TikTok has helped Latines learn, laugh, and build community. So when the app went dark for 12 hours in the United States on January 18 fo...