By: Robert Rios, News Editor My family loves to celebrate the holidays. Every year we decorate my home and yard to the proper time of celebration. For Christmas we put up lights all around the house and put different corny inflatables everywhere. For Easter we like to put colorful eggs in the yard so the […]
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Three Cultural Centers One Drag Show
By: Brenda Fernanda Verano “Three queens. Three cultural centers. Head to head, whose crew will win?,” was the subject line of a three-hour event at CSUDH. With glamorous wigs, captivating outfits, fake lashes and bright lipstick, the drag queens owned the Drag Show Battle. Tara Nova represented the Toro Dreamers Success Resource Center, whose services […]
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Costume Appropriation: Me Don’t Love You Long Time
By Jasmine Nguyen. Co-Lifestyle Editor Exotic dragon ladies. Giggling schoolgirls. Sensual geishas. For the longest time, these seemed to be the only images of Asian women that mainstream America could conjure. While those stereotypes are slowly fading away in films and on TV, they scream come Halloween season. Look around your local costume store and […]
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The Vibrant Life of the Day of the Dead
Photo by Nova Blanco-Rico By Violeta Rocha, Co-Social Media Manager Christmas, Easter and Halloween are three examples of rituals and traditions with roots reaching back more than 2,000 years that have become secularized and commercialized holidays emphasizing consumerism over culture. Is Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, next on the list? For […]
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People Just Want to Live
By: Jordan Darling, Editor-in-Chief I sat with my knees pulled up under my chin and looked up at the young woman in front of me, tall and willowy, her long patterned skirt fluttered around her ankles in the afternoon breeze. She had her back to Andartat Halalei Pe’ulot HaEiva, a memorial for victims of terrorism […]