Carys Douglas

Since his initial foray into the realm of biographical films with 2014’s Million Dollar Arm, the true story of an American sports agent who turned two exceptionally talented cricket bowlers into Major League Baseball pitchers, director Craig Gillespie has made it his mission to reinvent the biopic. After getting his feet wet with Disney’s tried-and-true sports biopic formula, Gillespie went on to forge a path of his own, wholly disinterested […]

So what really goes on inside a girls’ room? Through photographer Thalía Gochez’s lens, you’ll find a delicate world of frills, fishnets, and cheetos. In her latest photo series “Baile,” Gochez drew inspiration from late 90s and early 2000s’ disposable film photographs of girls getting ready in their rooms. “I love the energy: the sacred moments before going to a party with your homegirls. It’s almost ritualistic, figuring out whose […]

Tucked away in the far right corner of my bathroom sits the last tube of ointment prescribed by my dermatologist to soothe my eczema. That was over a year ago, marking the longest period of time I have gone without a flare-up. My skin has been thriving despite the twenty-something years that I’ve had eczema. Yet now there’s a fresh itch on my left finger I just can’t get to […]

Welcome to LATINA’s weekly roundup of the best new music. This week’s list includes Shakira’s diss track about her ex Gerard Piqué, Jessie Reyez’s epic collaboration with Sam Smith and Koffee, and Kany García’s new video with Abel Pintos. Also on the list: Tini teams up with La Joaqui and Steve Aoki, María Becerra goes soulful in “Desafiando El Destino,” and Chesca drops a dreamy duet with Dalex. Plus, Matisse’s […]

To those familiar with the history of labor rights in the United States, Dolores Huerta needs no introduction. The legendary labor leader, famed for founding the United Farm Workers of America alongside Cesar Chavez in 1962 and coming up with the rallying cry “si se puede” (yes we can), had her work introduced to a wider audience by way of appearing in Gutsy, the new Apple TV+ docuseries based off […]

What happens when you mix your love for soccer and your love for photography? You create your own World Cup players cards! Or at least that’s what Monica Zulema did. The idea came to the 23-year-old LA-based photographer about a year and half ago, when she was working a retail job and searching for soccer posters to decorate her bedroom. She found vintage images of women in soccer jerseys, which […]

Mo Amer and Teresa Ruiz, the romantic duo at the center of Netflix’s newest original series “Mo,” have known for a long time that there are cultural parallels between them. Mo, who immigrated from Palestine, and Teresa, who immigrated from Mexico, are no strangers to the fact that, when all is said and done, the narratives surrounding two vastly different parts of the world have more commonalities than they do […]