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/
www.MyLatinitas.com
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Denisse Rauda, Multimedia Designer
Latinitas Magazine http://www.mylatinitas.com/profiles/blog/list?user=0zzl2cbxbeq12
denisserauda@gmail.com
What is your blog about?
Initially my intent with my blog was to document the trials and tribulations that come with the actual act of graduating from college. As it were, my intent failed me because graduation went off pretty much without any major hitch. The process was so that even classmates I spoke about the process with had no complaints.
At that point I decided it would instead document my graduation and still occasionally veer off to topics I felt would be good for me to cover for practice purposes. After graduation, my blog sort of transformed into this post-grad struggles diary.
In other words, my blog is about my graduation and where that pivotal moment has taken me.
What motivated you to do your blog?
My major (journalism) is what motivated me. I want to be a serious journalist, starting a blog was just a natural step as I progress in my field and of course I don’t want to lose my writing style or technique; blogging prevents rusting.
What do you offer your visitors to your blog?
What I would like to think I offer visitors to my blog is an honest, well though-out account of what I’m going through and hopefully help them get through their post-college woes too. It was a shocker and I still feel like I’m going through a bit of an identity-crisis now that I am no longer a college student. Being a student is the only life I’ve known and now I’m expected to go out into the world and making something of myself. Not only do I want others to know the difficulty college graduates are facing today, but also highlight a few of the positive things that have happened.
Denisse Rauda, Multimedia Designer
Latinitas Magazine http://www.mylatinitas.com/profiles/blog/list?user=0zzl2cbxbeq12
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