Mothers of Invention

It's Women's History Month, again. What's there to celebrate: The "Cuernos Sisterhood"? Lip plumpers?
Read my NY Daily News column of March 12, 2008, Mothers of Invention.

Political pundits need new playbook

We're in the middle of a truly historic presidential campaign. Yet most of the media panels of pundits and "experts" consist of white males, with a pundette or two thrown in to play Kemo Sabe to their Lone Rangers. I get palpitations every time a group of opinionistas discusses the Latino vote and rehashes the platitude du jour: Brown people don't vote for black people. . .
Op-ed piece NY Daily News, March 12, 2008 Pundits Need a New Playbbok When it Comes to Latino Voters

Super Tuesday Latino Vote

"Ugly Betty" may have trumped Oprah in the California primaries, but the power of celebrity endorsements was not what was at stake on February 5.
Read my February 13, 2008 Daily News column Rockeando the Vote

Hillary or Obama?

Minority boomerettes face an historical dilemma this primary season: Hillary or Obama. Whose dream shall be deferred? Check out my NY Daily News column, Political Wrinkles

Si Spika da Inglish

When having a “funny accent” can get you deported it's no laughing matter

Since Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney defended himself by asking whether he should check the immigration status of anyone speaking with a “funny accent,” I’ve been taking my passport with me whenever I go out, even to the bodega around the corner.See, I’m one of those American citizens who speaks with a “funny accent.” No, I didn’t grow up in Brooklyn, New Orleans or Dallas. Although people from those places, and many others, do speak with an accent, it’s never called “funny.”

Read full NY Daily News column

Let my people vote!

The anti-immigration hysteria is keeping 17 million Latino voters hostage. We're caught in a one-issue steel cage we need to get out of so we can address other issues affecting our community. Read my NY Daily News column of November 7, 2007, Let my people go!

Machismo vs. Manliness

Many men--and, sadly, quite a few women--are confused as to what makes a man, a man.
Read my VIVA/NY Daily News column on the misguided efforts to bring back a "new machismo"--including comments on the new book "Huevos y la Mujer Latina: The De-masculization of the Macho" by Julian Camacho Segura.