Maya Escobar video reel on Vimeo
from Maya Escobar This video represents the complexities and profound contradictions of Latinas’ identity.
Author: Gloria Lopez-Henriquez
Growing Up Latino and Surviving to 25 on Vimeo
from The Futuro Media Group Surviving the emotional roller coaster of adolescence is a double and sometimes triple challenge for Latino/a youth. Culture and tradition complicate universal adolescent issues like anxiety, depression, peer pressure, and relationships. Youth in immigrant families often have difficulty navigating the different worlds of school and the streets, home and family. […]
Living Life With Puerto Rican Activist Lolita Lebrón
Episode: 007: A Revealing Account Of Life With Puerto Rican Activist Lolita Lebrón Irene Vilar is a Puerto Rican activist, author, founder of the Americas Latino Eco Festival, and the mother of two ñ’s. Irene’s life in a few words is the struggle for self redemption and eradication of shame. For Irene, sipping Café con leche is a […]
Depression, Suicide Rates for Young Hispanic Women Reaching Alarming Levels
Image source: https://www.lucidatreatment.com/blog/mental-health/high-level-women-hispanic-suicide/ Depression, Suicide Rates for Young Hispanic Women Reaching Alarming Levels This entry was posted in Mental Health and tagged depression, hispanic, suicide on March 17, 2014 by lucida. Facebook Twitter Google+ The campaigns by medical professionals, public health officials and former sufferers to raise awareness about the true prevalence and seriousness of […]
Cultural Displacement on Vimeo
from Luis M. Jara This short film looks to explore the most characteristic and common feelings which migrants have to go through (limbo, identity, immigration and adaptation) whilst trying to integrate into a new system and culture, which in this case it is to become a Londoner. We used contemporary dance as it is one […]
Why Has President Obama Deported More Immigrants Than Any President in US History? | The Nation
A Guatemalan undocumented immigrant prepares to board a plane at the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway airport during his deportation process in Mesa, Arizona (Reuters/Carlos Barria) Since 9/11, immigration has become increasingly tangled with criminal enforcement and national security. Source: Why Has President Obama Deported More Immigrants Than Any President in US History? | The Nation By […]
THE LATINA CRY FOR HELP: SUICIDE
SUNDAY, JULY 23, 2006 Judd: The New York Spanish language newspaper El Diario/La Prensa has just completed a remarkable series on the staggering attempted suicide rates among Latina teenagers. The series, written by Elaine Rivera, focuses on the often suffocating conditions facing Latina girls today and the findings of Dr. Luis Zayas from the Washington […]
1 out of 4 latinas in the US has a child before the age of 20
Image source: https://www.childtrends.org July 14, 2006 By Elaine Rivera http://juantornoe.blogs.com/hispanictrending/2006/07/page/6/ In a non-descript building in the South Bronx, a group of teenagers sit around a table and rattle off when they gave birth: Sixteen, says Leslie; Sixteen, as well, says Andrea; Thirteen, says Destiny, now the mother of a four-year-old son. As teenage mothers, their […]
Alarming attempted suicide rate among Hispanic teenage girls
Julio 12, 2006 By Elaine Rivera http://juantornoe.blogs.com/hispanictrending/2006/07/page/7/ Five years ago when she was 10 years old, Bronx teenager Janine was molested. As she became more depressed over the incident, her thoughts kept turning to death. “I just didn’t want to be here anymore,” Janine recalled. “I thought it would be better if I was gone.” […]
Una de cada seis jovencita latinas, intenta suicidarse en EEUU – Radio La Primerísima
Elaine Rivera, diario La Prensa de New York. | 18 agosto de 2006 Un complicado y silencioso fenómeno nacional afecta a las menores hispanas. Una de cada 6 adolescentes latinas ha intentado quitarse la vida. Hace cinco años, cuando tenía 10, Janine fue abusada sexualmente. Al deprimirse más y más por el incidente durante los […]