About
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VivirLatino is a daily publication, featuring news, analysis and opinions about Latino politics and culture created for the diverse and influential Latino and Latina community in the U.S by Latinas.
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.
Why a Blog for the Latino Community 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, and one other country, Spain.
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.
VivirLatino is the debut blog for Blogs Media.
Managing Editors
Jennifer Woodard Maderazo
Jennifer is a communications and marketing consultant, blogger and amateur photographer.
Born in Baton Rouge and transplanted to Houston, Jennifer later ventured off to film school in Mexico City, where she lived five happy years, only to cruzar el charco to Spain to finish off her studies with a Masters in Documentary from the University of Barcelona.
Both as a blogger and a consultant, Jennifer’s opinions have been featured in Business Week, The New York Times, The Huffington Post, among other publications, on topics related to the Latino community, technology and marketing.
In addition to VivirLatino, she also blogs about new media and the Internet on PBS MediaShift, a blog which tracks the way technology is changing the face of media.
Maegan “la Mamita Mala” Ortiz
Maegan is a Queens born and bred Nuyorican 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, and radical mamihood.
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.
