7:28 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Arts| Magazines| Media| New York City · 1 Comment
11 Oct 2009
Started by amiga Elizabeth Torres, the virtual revista features all art forms from visual art to music, film, performance and literature.
While not a Latino/Latin American magazine per se, the premiere issue features many Latino and Latin American artists including Excusado Printsystem (*Frente gráfico independiente) from Colombia and Costa Rican Poet, Jose Maria Zonta.
Red Door NY has been born, finally.
The initiative was created as an independent door to connect the community and to serve as a space for free expression in any field. To allow each and everyone of you to become the protagonists and the creators of opportunities, threading waters between New York and the world, in a timeless manner. Our goal? Rebuilding present. Leaving a footprint in the city and causing reactions. Wake up. It is time to exist. Reaffirm your origins, be proud of your culture, of your talent, of your fears, doubts, and emotions. Share them.
Urban intervention, poetry in everything we see and do, no dress code. The proposal of RDNY has been created as an approach of interaction. Information and rebirth through culture and technology, in each page, in each segment.
Take this space as an invitation to step out of the box, break the format and the royal run around, and take some action. Show us what you’re made of, how your life is changing others, give everyone a chance to come in and be a part of your projects, your dreams, your story.
The time has come to quit complaining about the big charade of past-due concepts, useless policies, traditions, formality, square fairy-tales. Throw them out the window and walk inside the red door. Undress code exposed.
Give us raw, fresh, clean, simple truth. Question identity. Intrepid Self Expression. Reinvention. Rebellion. Recklessness. Conscience. Visual Eloquence. (and all that good stuff). All we ask for is to finally see art frolicking in reality. We exist.
Elizabeth Torres.
6:00 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Controversia| Magazines| Media| Politics| Women| race · 5 Comments
7 Jun 2009The attacks on Obama’s Supreme Court Nominee, Sonia Sotomayor, haven’t let up.
Newt Gingrich, everyone’s favorite oppressed white man, took a step back from the assertion that Sotomayor claiming her identity equals racism.
Then we have Pat Buchanan talking about Sotomayor and that Puerto Rican group (cuz you know there is only ONE Puerto Rican group).
11:25 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities| Fashion| Magazines| Movies · Comments Off
23 Mar 2009
JLo participated in Vanity Fair’s photo homage to classic Broadway musical made Hollywood classic movie West Side Story. Who was she? Well, Anita no less!
Posing for a glossy, starlet-studded photoshoot with Vanity Fair, Lopez admits, “I never wanted to be that wimpy Maria, who sits around pining for her guy. I wanted to be Anita, who danced her way to the top.” That’s because it’s almost how J.Lo’s career happened, except with more spray-tan and highlights.
Well put! I wonder what Rita Moreno would think. More importantly, what do you think?
Check out the whole series (featuring a ton of B-list actors) at Vanity Fair.
Via / Socialite Life
Photo: Mark Seliger for Vanity Fair
5:17 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities| Chismes| GLBT| Magazines| Media| Sports · 2 Comments
17 Mar 2009
A-Rod might be yesterday’s news for Madonna (who is allegedly now living with her Latin lover Brasileiro Jesus Luz), but Madge’s ex-lover doesn’t look like he’s sulking. In the photo above, A-Rod loses all inhibitions to appeal to Details magazine’s main demographic: gay guys.
But wait, who’s that hot guy A-Rod is getting all kissy with? Oh, it’s…his own reflection! WTF?
I like the photography, and you gotta hand it to A-Rod for being bold enough to do a shoot like this. Baseball is a man’s game and it takes some guts to shake off all that machismo. Way to go, A-Rod!
Via / Details
9:30 am By Maegan La Mala · Internet| Magazines| VivirLatino · Comments Off
13 Jan 2009
Because we are a multi-talented groups of mujeres here at VivirLatino, we represent our skills in many places.
la Macha is writing some guest posts over at Bitch magazine’s blog.
Go over and represent and support independent Latina voices. Her latest post is on nationalism and sports.
12:45 pm By Maegan La Mala · Events| Magazines| New York City| VivirLatino · Comments Off
9 Jan 2009
Yours truly will be trekking into Brooklyn, NYC tomorrow nite, to lend her words and support to the amazing magazine make/shift.
EVENT: MAKE/SHIFT IN BROOKLYN
Saturday, January 10, 2009, 6:30 p.m.
Fort Green , Brooklyn — RSVP to info@makeshiftmag.com for address
Coeditors/copublishers Jessica Hoffmann and Daria Yudacufski are heading east for a house party hosted by marvelous make/shift supporters Mariana Ruiz Firmat and Chad Jones. Join us for an evening of readings, food, and good company at a party to build community and benefit make/shift. Readings by Jen Benka, Blackamazon, Mariana Ruiz Firmat, Maegan “la Mala” Ortiz, and Masha Tupitsyn. Suggested donation of $5+ at the door. No one will be turned away for lack of funds, and those who donate $20 or more will receive a subscription to make/shift.
I can’t say enough wonderful things about the whole make/shift crew and the amazing work they all do. So if you can come, represent, and support.
7:22 am By Maegan La Mala · Controversia| Magazines| Religion| Women| mexico · Comments Off
17 Dec 2008
Mexico’s Playboy magazine decided that December, the same month that it’s own Virgen de Guadalupe is honored, the same month that people all over the world celebrate the biblical story of a virgin birthing a messiah, would be a great time to put a naked mujer posing like the Virgen Maria on it’s cover.
Claro, it’s Playboy, not a magazine known for taste or respect except when compared to Penthouse, for example, and it’s pretty obvious that this was a stunt meant to get attention and stir things up. What interests me is the why people are so mad.
12:27 pm By Maegan La Mala · Activism| Blogs| Internet| Magazines| Women| media justice · Comments Off
21 Oct 2008UTNE Reader released a list of 50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World and VivirLatino is proud that some dear amigas of ours are included.
brownfemipower, whom I consider an hermana on the blogosphere:
brownfemipower, whose inimitable blog is the anchor of the pulsing women-of-color blogosphere, began posting three years ago. She writes emotionally and radiantly about gender violence, immigration raids, public housing demolition in New Orleans, sexuality (a recent post on this topic included a video of Aerosmith’s “Crying”), and other “out of bounds” issues, morphing feminism back into a force for social change—for everyone—rather than an “exclusive networking club.”“Feminists can’t seem to figure out why their movement isn’t growing,” she wrote in June. “Could the fact that feminism uses universities as its major site of recruitment rather than jails, halfway houses, day care centers, churches, restaurants, the streets, mommy blog communities . . . have something to do with it?”
Felicidades mujer!
Other amigas and people who should be amigas after the jump…
11:07 am By Maegan La Mala · Magazines| New York City| Politics| language · Comments Off
24 Sep 2008
NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg is taking Spanish classes, with a Colombian tutor. Does this mean he speaks with a Colombian accent?
The men sat at opposite ends of a coffee table speckled with a half-dozen books — on the history of New York’s municipal lawyers, on the subway system’s rich architecture. Their legs stretched out, left foot resting on the right, they were mirror images of disparate worlds: the tutor, an immigrant from Colombia, with his student, the mayor of New York, face to face for 90 minutes in an elegant chamber at City Hall.
In an interview in Vanity Fair magazine, el alcalde says he wishes his Español was better
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
My Spanish. I’ve been studying for seven years and I still speak como un novato.
In New York City, it should be a requirement to speak Spanish and I mean that in the best way.
Via / Mi Blog es tu Blog, NYT, Vanity Fair
Image Via / NYT
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