#latina characters

[metal-journeyentity]

[thesebright-lights]

Nobody:

Latine Characters:

[goteambrooklyn]

Barbie: Big City, Big Dreams Gift Set (product code: GXF28)

"Inspire storytelling and friendship fun with this Barbie: Big City, Big Dreams™ gift set featuring three of Barbie® doll's besties! Teresa™, Daisy and Rafa dolls are ready to explore the city in stylish fashions inspired by their onscreen looks. Each friend comes with an on-trend accessory to complete their outfit: there's a record-inspired purse for Daisy doll, a tote bag with a musical theme for Teresa™ doll and cool aviator shades for Rafa doll. With three dolls inspired by Barbie: Big City, Big Dreams™, kids ages 3 years old and up can recreate their favorite moments or dream up their own big adventures! Doll cannot stand alone. Colors and decorations may vary. Features:

This Barbie Big City Big Dreams™ gift set inspires kids to join Barbie® doll's friends on their most exciting adventure yet!

These 3 dolls are ready to explore the city in fun fashion pieces, like a rockin' t-shirt dress for Daisy doll, a neon top and starry skirt for Teresa™ doll, and a t-shirt with distressed jeans for Rafa doll.

Stylish shoes complete each look, and on-trend accessories include music-themed purses for Teresa™ and Daisy dolls and cool aviator shades for Rafa doll.

With 3 dolls featuring their signature looks and accessories, 3- to 7-year-olds can play out all kinds of stories under the city lights or the spotlight!

Kids can collect more Barbie: Big City, Big Dreams™ dolls and playsets to recreate favorite moments or dream up their own big adventures."

Barbie: Big City, Big Dreams Gift Set

The Barbie: Big City, Big Dreams Gift Set was released in 2021. The product number is GXF28 and the gift set includes the characters Teresa,

[thelgbtbookblogger]

Dear Loveable (Latina) Lesbians,

Once upon a time, back in colonial South America, there was an influential mining city called Potosí that sourced a significant portion of the world's silver. Given the degree of exploitation of the native people that kept the mine in business, the majority of the people were impoverished and crime was abundant.

Enter Ana Lezama de Urinza and Eustaquia de Souza, the Valiant Ladies of Potosí. Eustaquia was a nobleman's daughter and Ana was a street urchin eventually adopted by the family. Together, the two lovers acted as vigilantes, fighting crime and protecting the weak of Potosí.

The best part of this? Those two were real people, and this book is based on their true story. Part murder mystery, part love story, this novel is a delight to follow.

[ahb-writes]

Shipping.

(from The Owl House, S1E11: “Sense and Insensitivity”)

[stronggirlsrule]

Rosa Diaz

Brooklyn 99 is a comedy about a group of New York cops, one of my favorites being the hardcore and somewhat intimidating Rosa Diaz.

This badass bisexual Latina may seem unaproachable, but really she would go to great lengths to help those whom she considers her friends. Rosa has handled so much, from going to prison as an innocent cop, to dealing with parents who didn’t accept her. She is played by the very talented Stephanie Beatriz, who really gives this character her many dimensions and layers.

[evabellasworld]

Just a Normal Day at War

For Star Wars POC Week 2020

Day 2: Cultural Traditions

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Summary: For every Muslims in the galaxy, the celebration of Eid ul-Fitr is filled with happiness and laughter in the air. For Erina Almarez-Guttierez, on the other hand, who is on duty as a Republic admiral during the Clone Wars, Eid won’t be the same for her anymore

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Glancing at her datapad, the Republic admiral’s eyes were glued to a particular date on her calendar, which was circled in red ink. 21st of this month, which was tomorrow. That was the day Erina would be at home with her family and childhood friends, celebrating Eid ul Fitr. 

After 30 days of Ramadan, where she had to eat before dawn and abstain food and water until the sun sets, where she would take a bite of her fresh dates that she would buy at the marketplace on Coruscant from a Muslim seller like her. 

Wearing a black hijab around her head, Erina Almarez-Guttierez had brown skin and dark, amber eyes with thick, black eyebrows. A native of Lothal, her parents spoke fluently in Spanish and practiced Islam as their religion. 

One of the holiest months for Muslims was Ramadan, where every Muslims would abstain from meals from dawn till dusk and would walk to the mosque nearby their homes for Tarawih prayers for at least 16 times the maximum. Her legs might ache but at least Erina knows that she will get virtues from Allah and enter into Heaven’s gate in the afterlife, where she will be welcomed by angels.

As a Muslim, Erina prays five times a day and reads the Quran at least once a week, hoping to get guidance from Allah in life. Every single day, when the Clone Wars begin, she would pray that the clones would be protected from further harm and hope that their souls would be in a better place.

Every year, while she was working for the Republic, she would take a leave for two days and fly back to Lothal, where she reunites with her parents and her siblings. She would always be assigned to cooking duty in the kitchen, where she and her sisters, Hidayah, Faten, and Umairah, would help their mother to make empanadas, which were puff pastries that had beef and potato stuffings inside.

It may look like a simple dish, but Erina felt that nobody can replicate her mami’s empanadas, ever. She tried many of them whenever she craved for them, but the empanadas back home were made with love and compassion. She wishes that she can make the exact empanadas like her mami’s.

But abuela, on the other hand, is an expert at making the hardest dish for Eid, which was the tamales. It was so difficult that it will take the entire day to actually get them right. One slip up, and the tamales won't be good at all.

Erina's abuela would always make her do the fillings, which consist of chicken, carrots, chickpeas, red potatoes, parsley, and sausages while her sisters get to work together and make the marinades and cut the banana leaves into small pieces. Her mami and abuela, on the other hand, does the mass, which pieces the tamales together in harmony.

Meanwhile, her papa and abuelo clean the entire house by replacing old curtains with the new ones that they bought at the store and set the fairy lights, brightening the entire house.

The day before Eid, Erina and her younger sisters were so excited that they couldn't sleep at all, looking forward to the next day. Adults, on the other hand, wept at the mosque, praying that they could enjoy the sweetness of the next Ramadan.

According to the speaker at the mosque, Ramadan is where the devils would be chained in hell, thus preventing them from influencing mortals to commit sins, thus making the month much more peaceful for all Muslims to perform their deeds for Allah, such as donating to the less fortunate.

Unfortunately for Erina, Ramadan doesn’t seem to be peaceful anymore, now that the galaxy is in war between the Republic and the Separatists. From what she was told by the Supreme Chancellor of the Republic, Chancellor Palpatine proclaimed that the Separatist had provoked an attack and that he had no other choice but to proclaim emergency power in order to increase military forces for the Republic.

On one hand, Erina was ranked up as the admiral of the Dawnseeker, under the command of Jedi General Erhan Wuxar and Dahlia Valentinia. Even though she had worked for the military for 15 years, she was grateful to Allah that at least the people above her actually promoted her based on her achievements alone, rather than her connections.

Both her parents were shopkeepers on Lothal, which sold confectionaries such as that mysterious strawberry sweets that somehow popped up in every drawer, brevas con arequipe, roscon, cocadas, obleas, arequipe, and many, many more that Erina couldn’t remember. It’s been a while since she hasn’t returned to her family home.

With the war raging every day in different systems, it’s hard for Erina to contact her family and friends on Lothal. Since she’s always on board the Jedi Cruiser, she can only be allowed to communicate with her colleagues. Outside communications are forbidden as it makes themselves vulnerable to the Separatist army.

Fasting during the war is especially difficult for Erina, especially during Ramadan. She had to rush to her quarters every time she had to pray, she couldn’t keep herself focused on the tasks at hand, and most importantly, she gets tired too easily. Nevertheless, she hardly complained and told herself to be patient, for she believed that Allah had a plan for her.

The Battle of Quarmite had been raging for days, from dusk till dawn. According to her Jedi Generals, both of them had lost quite a number of soldiers during the brutal battle, with many more injured. The ones who survived, such as Commander Odd Eye and Commander Gowon, were pushing themselves to the limit to beat their enemies, just like their simulation on Kamino had suggested.

Meanwhile in space, the Dawnseeker are pushing back the Separatist cruisers that are firing back towards them. WIth whatever remains from their shield power, Erina hoped that the battle could end as fast as possible, so that she could return home.

Then, she felt a rumble in her cruiser, causing her to grab the edge of the holotable, preventing her from falling. The lights flickered as the ship was almost tilting to the right side, making her grip tighter.

“Admiral,” one of the clone officers called her from below the walkway. “We’ve lost our shields.”

“Reroute our power to the shields,” Erina ordered him. “We are left exposed dead in space.”

“Yes, sir.”

Is this the day I’m going to see the end of my life? She thought, noticing her comrades around her. Is my time up?

She doesn’t fear death, of course. Since the day the war had started, she knew that death is inevitable and that eventually, Azrael would pay her a visit. However, she fears not saying a proper goodbye to someone she loved dearly, and dying in a slow manner. 

Mami, Papa, whatever sin I have committed against you, I am truly sorry. I sincerely hope you forgive me and pray that I’ll be in a better place after death.

“Sir,” another clone officer summoned her. “Our fighters managed to intercept the vulture droids.”

Her lips curved into a smile. “That’s good to hear, officer. Did you manage to get the shields back up?”

“Working on it,” his sister informed her. “Our technicians are fixing the problem right now.”

“Good work, officer. Update me on the maintenance of the shield, alright?”

“Yes, sir, admiral.”

As she glued her eyes to the hologram, she received a transmission from General Wuxar, prompting her to answer it. “General, what is your status currently?”

“We’ve managed to take down our enemies, but there will be more coming, unfortunately,” the Jedi gave his report. “We must be ready for Separatist reinforcements, or we risk losing more troops in battle.”

“Noted with thanks, General Wuxar,” she replied, before disconnecting their comlink. 

She turned to her datapad and erased the red circles around tomorrow’s date. I guess there won’t be coming home after all. Oh well, back to work.

Instead of fairy lights, she was treated to a dim light above the ceiling. Instead of abuela’s tamales, she dines on bland, tasteless rations. Instead of a dress that she got sewn from a local tailor, she wears an olive green military uniform and badge that is provided by her superiors. And instead of children screaming in joy, she hears the cries of children who were caught in a war between the Republic and the Separatist. 

There was no glorious feast, nor gifts, nor chatter and gossip between families. Instead, Erina’s Eid ul Fitr was filled with gloominess, death, blood, and gunshots in the air. 

But it’s just a normal day at war, where she had to give her report to the Chancellor about the progress of the battle so far, that’s all. Just like any other day. After all, war is more important than peace and prosperity. 

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Erina Almarez-Guttierez

[profeminist]

Why Are Latinx Stories Still So Rare on TV?

The showrunners of One Day at a Time and Vida talk Hollywood, Latinx representation, and the “alchemy” of seeing yourself on TV.

“If the Latinx community comprises 18 percent of the U.S. population — and 25 percent of 6-to-21-year-olds in the nation are Latinx, according to Pew Research Center — why are Latinx stories so hard to find on television, especially considering the record volume of shows made in the Peak TV era?

That is the question Latinx Hollywood has been asking more and more in recent years, and perhaps most loudly in the wake of the recent cancellation of One Day at a Time, a Netflix critical darling and Norman Lear reboot about a Cuban-American family living in Los Angeles. The departure of the show from the TV landscape leaves only three shows on the air centered on Latinx families that do not delve in criminal or gangster stereotypes: Netflix’s On My Block, which launched its second season on Friday; the CW’s Jane the Virgin, currently in its final season; and Starz’s Vida, which drops its second season on demand on May 23 (and premieres on the cable network May 26). That’s three of 495 scripted series produced in 2018. (ABC will premiere Grand Hotel, executive-produced by Eva Longoria, on June 17.)

Last week, One Day at a Time co-showrunner Gloria Calderón Kellett, who loosely based her sitcom on her life as a Cuban-American, and her friend Tanya Saracho, creator and showrunner of Vida, participated in a conversation about Latinx representation on television at the Riveter’s L.A. co-working space. The highlights of their hour-long discussion, led by Lindsay Scola, director of strategic communication and social impact at Friends at Work, have been edited and condensed below.”

Read the full piece here