Category: Women
Latinas and black women contract AIDS more from sexual networks and less through risky behaviors
LatinaLista — Once upon a time, AIDS/HIV was considered as dangerous, contagious and prevalent as the H1N1 virus. There used to be massive public service campaign commercials instructing people on how to avoid getting infected with HIV. A month didn’t go by that AIDS/HIV wasn’t mentioned in the news or the subject of an in-depth [...]
Actor Edward James Olmos spearheads donations request to help “Stand and Deliver” teacher Jaime Escalante
LatinaLista If we were to name the top five all-time family favorite Latino films, a list might include: La Bamba, Real Women Have Curves, Mi Familia, Selena and — Stand and Deliver. Who could forget the teacher Jaime Escalante, played by Edward James Olmos, who inspired a classroom full of East LA kids to believe [...]
Guest Voz: Esther Chavez Cano Added Up the Devastation of Gender Violence
By Theresa Braine Esther Chavez Cano died in Juarez, Mexico in December 2009 after losing a battle with cancer, but Esther fought another battle that to many seemed like she was losing but had achieved a victory to the dismay of her critics — international attention to the murders of women in Juarez. Just because [...]
Bilingual wedding planning site caters to the “new Latina”
LatinaLista February is National Wedding Month. Not too hard to guess why — the 2009 American Wedding Study released by Brides.com found that 10 percent of proposals take place on Valentine’s Day. The survey also found that 86 percent of brides-to-be followed the “something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue tradition.” But what [...]
When it comes to Latina teen pregnancies, California’s doing something right
LatinaLista Something good is happening in California. For a state more accustomed to bad news — a broke state economy, a slashing of public services, an increase in health premiums by the state’s largest health insurer, rising college tuition rates, escalating home foreclosures, crime, etc. — today’s news that the state’s Latina teens are having [...]
Avon survey finds uninsured women victims of new breast cancer screening recommendations
LatinaLista Remember when the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) released their controversial recommendations last November for how often women should be screened for breast cancer? They recommended against routine mammography screening for women aged 40 to 49 years and recommended screening every other year between the ages of 50 and 74 years, but didn’t [...]
Latina boxer creates a get-fit routine that packs a punch!
By Jo Ann Hernandez LatinaLista — Two-time WBC boxing champion Mia Rosales- St. John is one of the most famous and popular competitors in women’s boxing today. Now, in her first book, The Knockout Workout: 3 Winning Steps to Improve Your Body and Your Life, Mia reveals how she overcame racism, alcoholism and an eating disorder [...]
Balancing family expectations with personal destiny creates a new identity
By Jo Ann Hernandez LatinaLista — In Evenings at the Argentine Club, writer Julia Amante introduces readers to the Argentine Club, a place where families meet on Sundays for entertainment and as a place of refuge to preserve their traditions. In the close-knit Argentine-American community of Burbank, California, there are rules about marriage, family, money, and [...]
Feeding the hunger to know her herself sends one Latina on a delicious journey
By Jo Ann Hernandez LatinaLista — Josefina Lopez, the acclaimed playwright of the hit play-turned-into-movie “Real Women have Curves,” does it again with her debut novel published in 2009 titled “Hungry Woman in Paris.” It’s a tale of a woman discovering ‘herself.’ Everyone who reads this book will rock with laughter as twenty-nine-year-old, Canela, relates [...]
USA: A way out for undocumented victims of domestic violence
By Almudena Toral LatinaLista NEW YORK CITY — Graciela Beines is a survivor. She arrived in the United States from Argentina 10 years ago. She was undocumented, unmarried, had no children in the country and barely spoke English. In 2002, Beines, 50, was victim of brutal domestic violence. Many undocumented women like Beines don’t know [...]
