How The Coronavirus Pandemic Is Being Used To Restrict Abortion Access
No one leads the same life they did two weeks ago. Under this pandemic, millions have lost work, retreated from public spaces, and canceled all outings deemed non-essential in order to flatten the curve of COVID-19. Time will tell the long-term effects of these restrictions intended to impede the virus’s spread, but already there have […]
Painter Patssi Valdez, Founding Member of ASCO
In the 1970s, East Los Angeles was placed under excessive police control that bordered on militant occupation. It was under these strained conditions that Patssi Valdez, the feminist Latinx painter, was born and raised. Surrounded by the police brutality, poor education system, and racism that plagued the Latinx community, Valdez began making art with her […]
A War of Words: How COVID-19 Placed A Target on Chinese-Americans’ Backs
I should probably get used to people roaming around with cameras, I thought, as I passed another white man on the street photographing our fruit stands like they were exotica. I was accustomed to this sight wandering Chinatown, but not Flushing. My Fǎlāshèng (法拉盛) is now famous for Anthony Bourdain’s praise of our food culture, […]
Rita Moreno on the Return of ‘One Day at a Time’ and Why It’s More Timely Now Than Ever
‘One Day at a Time’ is back! The fourth season of the reimagined Norman Lear comedy-drama will premiere tonight on its new home of Pop TV—just over a year after Netflix pulled the plug on it. Last year, when news came out that ODAAT was not renewed by Netflix, fans took to Twitter to express […]
How The Coronavirus Pandemic Is Being Used To Restrict Abortion Access
No one leads the same life they did two weeks ago. Under this pandemic, millions have lost work, retreated from public spaces, and canceled all outings deemed non-essential in order to flatten the curve of COVID-19. Time will tell the long-term effects of these restrictions intended to impede the virus’s spread, but already there have […]
Painter Patssi Valdez, Founding Member of ASCO
In the 1970s, East Los Angeles was placed under excessive police control that bordered on militant occupation. It was under these strained conditions that Patssi Valdez, the feminist Latinx painter, was born and raised. Surrounded by the police brutality, poor education system, and racism that plagued the Latinx community, Valdez began making art with her […]
A War of Words: How COVID-19 Placed A Target on Chinese-Americans’ Backs
I should probably get used to people roaming around with cameras, I thought, as I passed another white man on the street photographing our fruit stands like they were exotica. I was accustomed to this sight wandering Chinatown, but not Flushing. My Fǎlāshèng (法拉盛) is now famous for Anthony Bourdain’s praise of our food culture, […]
Rita Moreno on the Return of ‘One Day at a Time’ and Why It’s More Timely Now Than Ever
‘One Day at a Time’ is back! The fourth season of the reimagined Norman Lear comedy-drama will premiere tonight on its new home of Pop TV—just over a year after Netflix pulled the plug on it. Last year, when news came out that ODAAT was not renewed by Netflix, fans took to Twitter to express […]
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How The Coronavirus Pandemic Is Being Used To Restrict Abortion Access
No one leads the same life they did two weeks ago. Under this pandemic, millions have lost work, retreated from...
Painter Patssi Valdez, Founding Member of ASCO
In the 1970s, East Los Angeles was placed under excessive police control that bordered on militant occupation. It was under...
A War of Words: How COVID-19 Placed A Target on Chinese-Americans’ Backs
I should probably get used to people roaming around with cameras, I thought, as I passed another white man on...
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‘One Day at a Time’ is back! The fourth season of the reimagined Norman Lear comedy-drama will premiere tonight on...
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