Alicia Rascon Co-Founder & CEO
Latinitas, Inc. – A Strong Voice for Young Latinas
http://www.latinitasmagazine.org/
www.TeenLatinitas.com
www.MyLatinitas.com
What is your blog about?
MyLatinitas.com is the blog and social network of TeenLatinitas.com – the first digital magazine by and for U.S. Latina youth. An opportunity for girls and women of all ages to collaborate, connect, and learn together, www.MyLatinitas.com serves not only as a blog host for young Latinas, but also as a social network to illuminate the paths of today’s Latina youth. Our blogs vary from books, to pop culture, to movies, fashion, interior design, and food, to the more difficult issues such as relationships, teen pregnancy, immigration and racism.
What motivated you to do this blog?
We wanted to create a space online where young Latinas could come together to express themselves and share their thoughts. We started the site in counteract the stereotypes and negative images we often see of Latinas in mainstream media. Our goals with the blog are to have Latinitas contribute and learn how to blog and express themselves, and become empowered through this medium, all the while getting encouragement, positive feedback, and advice from their peers and young Latina leaders on the site.
What do you offer the visitors to your blog?
Our site features blogs posts from our editors and readers, discussion forums, videos, photos and music. Our teen editorial advisory board and our team of teen reporters write regular blogs. We cover all topics related to Latina youth culture from entertainment to challenge teen issues. We have guest bloggers, contests, discussion questions, virtual book tours, interviews with role models and celebs, poetry and a wide range of essays written by, for and about Hispanic girls. What makes our site unique is that no boys are allowed to post or join the Latinitas web portal, and all members are allowed to post photographs, videos, comment on each others’ pages and blogs. This also allows us to offer our visitors safe places to talk and write openly without the pressure of being scrutinized or propelled in negative directions. We want visitors to go away with a sense of new-found understanding, sensitivity, and insight for new media, and Latinas and the issues we face every day.
Alicia Rascon Co-Founder & CEO
Latinitas, Inc. – A Strong Voice for Young Latinas
915.219.8554 915.219.8554
alicia@latinitasmagazine.org
http://www.latinitasmagazine.org/
http://www.teenlatinitas.com/
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Thank you Alica for sharing your site with us. Jo Ann
Great concept! I look forward to checking out Latinitas and becoming part of the network.