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Latina-American Teens With Depression Don’t Need DNA Testing, They Need Cultural Connection: “Some Girls” Documentary Review

Posted by strange on June 13, 2019
Latina-American Teens With Depression Don’t Need DNA Testing, They Need Cultural Connection: “Some Girls” Documentary Review

While scrolling through Instagram, I came across “Some Girls” documentary. I was excited to finally find a film that focused on depression in teen Latina-Americans, something I wished existed when I was in high school with depression. That day I texted Kelly Duarte, The Strange is Beautiful’s media and pop culture contributor, and we met up to watch it together for free on Kanopy, a video streaming service for public libraries. Though the documentary has a lot of great things about it, such as bringing awareness to this under represented and under researched issue, we were disappointed because it ignored many root reasons of why Latina-American teens are more likely to get depression, and disagreed with the creator’s choice to use DNA testing as a means of healing – especially because they claim it helped them, yet they never had depression.

Posted in: Kelly Duarte, Media Reviews, Self Care, Shannen | Tagged: #thestrangeisbeautiful, anti-blackness, anti-blackness in latinas, anti-blackness in latinos, chicano studies, cultural connection, dna testing, documentary latina teen depression, documentary on latina depression, kanopy, kelly duarte, Latina depression, Latina-American Teens, Latina-Americans, latinas, latinx, latinx depression, latinx teens, latinx youth, raquel cepeda, shannen roberts, some girls, some girls doc, the strange is beautiful

Chingona Fire Part 2: Self Love

Posted by strange on October 26, 2016
Chingona Fire Part 2: Self Love

Chingona Fire, a feminist poetry collective consisting of Angela Aguirre and Yesika Salgado, shares a

self love poem on body positivity

Posted in: Interviews, Interviews of Poets, Self Care | Tagged: angela aguirre, badass women, body positive, body positivity, chingona, chingona fire, cusi coyllur, express yourself, feminism, feminist, feminists, gal palace, inspiration, latina, latinas, nalgona, poetry, poets, self care, self help, self love, the strange is beautiful, yesika salgado

Self Help + Self Love with Chingona Fire: Part 1

Posted by strange on October 19, 2016
Self Help + Self Love with Chingona Fire: Part 1

Chingona Fire, a feminist poetry collective consisting of Angela Aguirre and Yesika Salgado, shares a

self help poem

Posted in: Interviews, Interviews of Poets, Self Care | Tagged: angela aguirre, chingona fire, community, da poetry lounge, feminism, feminist, feminists, gal palace, latinas, poems, poetry, self care, self help, self love, shannen roberts, the strange is beautiful, yesika salgado

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