Identity - BESE

by Valerie Roxas on Nov 1, 2020

I am my ancestor’s dreams, dismantling and decolonizing my mind, using my privilege as...

by Jacquelinne Mejia on Oct 9, 2020

Latinx teens and young adults—whether they were born in the U.S. to immigrant parents...

by Jacquelinne Mejia on Sep 30, 2020

As industries across politics, entertainment, tech, and education are finally recognizing the need for...

by Andrea Lausell on Sep 23, 2020

Having lived with Spina Bifida Lipomyelomeningocele for the last 27 years, I spent a...

by Jacquelinne Mejia on May 25, 2020

This season marks the final chapter for the Starz show “Vida”, a drama series...

by Fabiola Lopez on May 7, 2020

As an artist, it has been a struggle to create while being in the...

by Leslie Ambriz on May 5, 2020

Elizabeth Acevedo remembers the way her mother’s childhood stories would transport her from her...

by Inez Franco on Mar 17, 2020

During the Cold War, the U.S. government partnered with the Catholic church to extract...

by BESE Staff on Mar 6, 2020

Meet Apache Skateboards—the native group that is reinventing skateboarding by infusing it with their...

by Leslie Ambriz on Feb 4, 2020

Kimberly Douglas has always wanted to be a model, but when she realized she...

by Jerry Ayodele on Jan 29, 2020

Having to constantly explain where my accent comes from, since an abrupt move to...

by BESE Staff on Dec 11, 2019

Eric Ibarra saw there was a lack of creative spaces for young women of...

by BESE Staff on Oct 20, 2019

Did you know surfing started as an Indigenous sport? After Spanish colonizers displaced Native...

by BESE Staff on Oct 17, 2019

Rita Moreno is the first and only Latina to have ever won a Peabody,...

by Sequoia Holmes on Aug 23, 2019

“I don’t think Sequoia likes me,” is something I’ve heard secondhand my entire life,...

by Leslie Ambriz on Jul 1, 2019

Ismael Loutfi has always been religious. Truth be told, he feels he’s become more...