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VivirLatino is a daily publication, featuring news, analysis and opinions about Latino politics and culture created for the Latin@ diasporic community in the U.S. by Latin@s.

This site was publicly launched on October 12, 2005, Día de la Raza (Día de la Hispanidad) by Blogs Media, a company specializing in nanopublications, blog services and blog consulting. In 2008, publication of the site was taken over by 2 Mujeres Media, a partnership between two of the original editors of the site, Jennifer Woodard Maderazo and Maegan Ortiz. In 2011, Maegan Ortiz took over leadership, connecting it to her longstanding work as Mamita Mala Media.

Why a Blog for the Latin@ Disapora in the U.S?

VivirLatino was created for and is written with second and third generation Latinos in the U.S. in mind who, regardless of their country of origin, have shared visions, languages, goals, and struggles that have made them the one of the most dynamic demographic groups in the country.

VivirLatino covers a broad spectrum of Latino life in the U.S. with editors in two states: Michigan and New York.

The editors of VivirLatino contribute a modern Latino vision. With their own unique voices and a touch of Spanglish, the editors claim their own individual identities, while recognizing and reaffirming, without exclusions, the multitude of cultures, aspirations, and dreams that exist within the larger community.

In contrast to the growing trend, this is not about marketing. Rather it is about reflecting developing a collective vision for what Latinidad means in action.

Publisher & Managing Editor

Maegan “la Mamita Mala” Ortiz

Maegan is a Queens born and bred Nuyorican single mami, Espanglish poeta, freelance writer, blogger, and all
around rabble rouser.

La Mala has traveled between Puerto Rico and New York City her entire life, stopping for a brief time to live in Chile. She’s spent many years working on grassroots activist campaigns around such issues as police brutality, racial violence,  radical mamihood, and radical independent media making.

Her words and opinions have been featured in the Washington Post, Latina Magazine, Make/Shift Magazine, The New York Daily News, and on National Public Radio.

When she’s not blogging here, she’s shamelessly exhibiting herself on her personal blog Mamita Mala, writing for magazines/websites, working on a book or two, and spitting poesia in clubs in NYC, dragging her daughters behind her.

Editors

La Macha

La Macha is a blogger, una mujerista, and a queer chicana. She has blogged at multiple political sites for the past three years, and remains committed to community driven social justice centered media. La Macha blogs about everything from revolution in Oaxaca to women of color led movement making to Salma Hayek.

In La Macha’s spare time, she is an amateur photographer, an academic, and twitter addict.

Bianca Laureano

Bianca I. Laureano is the daughter of an artist and educator. As a first generation Puerto Rican sexologist living in NYC, she was raised in the Washington, DC area in an activist environment and is a product of the public school system. In the field of sexuality for over a decade, Bianca has worked with and taught youth of Color, working class communities, national and international organizations advocating sex-positive social justice agendas. She has presented both locally and internationally on various topics concerning activism, Latino sexual health, feminisms, youth and hip-hop culture, Latinos and race, curriculum development, and teaching popular culture.

Bianca is an instructor with CUNY and a freelance writer with Amplify Your Voice as the Media Justice columnist. She hosts the website LatinoSexuality.com and identifies as a LatiNegra, activist, sex-positive, pro-choice femme. Find out more about Bianca by visiting her website www.BiancaLaureano.com

Other Mentions

The VL team would like to send special thanks to Rebecca Carter who was an initial VL editor and to Gustavo Rojo, Amaury Nora, Marco F. Navarro, Cindy Mosqueda, and Estevan Montemayor who acted as guest editors.  VL is a team effort and we couldn’t have done it without them.