Identity - BESE

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...

by BESE Staff on May 15, 2019

With Cholas x Chulas, Nydia aims to create beauty products that appeal to the...

by BESE Staff on Apr 29, 2019

Congratulations to the winner of our pilot competition, Ambar Navarro! Watch the first video...

by BESE Staff on Mar 22, 2019

Meet Jillian Mercado—one of the only professional models at the top of her industry...

by BESE Staff on Mar 6, 2019

This writer and performance artist is fighting for a world where all people are...

by BESE Staff on Feb 27, 2019

In her latest installation, Haus, multidisciplinary artist Gabriela Ruiz uses sculpture and performance to...