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marjua estevez

POPSUGAR Contributor

Marjua is an afrocaribbean writer building on the legacy of her predecessors.

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Latest Posts From marjua

The Commodification of Basquiat, and His Middle Finger to the White Gaze

02/15/2022

The Commodification of Basquiat, and His Middle Finger to the White Gaze

A look back at a 1983 Jean-Michel Basquiat interview forced me to once again consider Toni Morrison's reverberating words.

This Roe v. Wade Anniversary, We Must Consider Race

01/22/2022

This Roe v. Wade Anniversary, We Must Consider Race

On Sept. 1, 2021, the state of Texas passed a new abortion ban, threatening the foundation of the landmark Supreme Court decision for 1973's Roe v Wade.

Meet Red 6xteen: The Dominican Drill Rapper Coming For Her Crown

01/12/2022

Meet Red 6xteen: The Dominican Drill Rapper Coming For Her Crown

Some would argue hip-hop had many beginnings.

Stay Healthy All Winter With This Dominican Red Onion Tea Remedy

12/22/2021

Stay Healthy All Winter With This Dominican Red Onion Tea Remedy

From Washington Heights to Santo Domingo, Dominicans love to use the best of herbs and spices when cooking meals and concocting beverages.

Dominican Potato Salad: Make Your Holiday Spread Pop With Ensalada Rusa

12/01/2021

Dominican Potato Salad: Make Your Holiday Spread Pop With Ensalada Rusa

The treasured potato salad and notorious subject of POC debate takes culinary form differently across many cultures and communities.

Bad Bunny Is Nominated For 4 Latin Grammys This Year – Here's Why This Matters

11/18/2021

Bad Bunny Is Nominated For 4 Latin Grammys This Year – Here's Why This Matters

At the onset of a global pandemic in February 2020, Bad Bunny — né Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio — released his second studio album, YHLQMDLG, an acronym that would spell out his definitive musical ethos and life mantra: "Yo Hago Lo Que Me Da La Gana," which translates to "I do what I want."

Canceling J Balvin or Tokischa Isn't Going to Solve Reggaeton's Anti-Black Issues

11/08/2021

Canceling J Balvin or Tokischa Isn't Going to Solve Reggaeton's Anti-Black Issues

When I first saw J Balvin and Tokischa's "Perra" video after they premiered it in September, the cynic in me couldn't help but simultaneously lament over and be impressed by a contemporary reggaeton number with all the nuts and bolts of a 2000s perreo track.

Eunice Levis: Meet the Director Putting on For Afrofuturism in Spanish

10/27/2021

Eunice Levis: Meet the Director Putting on For Afrofuturism in Spanish

At 32, I learned my mother's deepest aspiration was to study psychology.

For Latinx Heritage Month to Mean Anything, Let Black People Take the Stage

10/25/2021

For Latinx Heritage Month to Mean Anything, Let Black People Take the Stage

Another so-called Hispanic Heritage Month, now referred to as Latinx Heritage Month, has come and gone, and were it not for social media, I honestly wouldn't have noticed.

5 Ways to Decolonize Your Diet and Embrace Latinx Ancestral Foodways

10/19/2021

5 Ways to Decolonize Your Diet and Embrace Latinx Ancestral Foodways

A lot of things have happened, historically speaking, to distort and traumatize Black and Brown people's relationship to food and food accessibility.

Why Infertility Still Isn't Talked About Enough in Latinx Communities

09/24/2021

Why Infertility Still Isn't Talked About Enough in Latinx Communities

Not until I began working as a features editor at BET.com did I actually meet a Black woman seeking fertility treatments to freeze her eggs for a later date, when she'd be less busy fashioning a career in media and entertainment.

How Doulas and Midwives Can Help Combat the Racial Biases of Western Medicine

05/28/2021

How Doulas and Midwives Can Help Combat the Racial Biases of Western Medicine

American mothers die in childbirth at a greater rate than mothers in all other "developed" countries — three times more than in Britain and Canada, for instance, according to a 2018 report by NPR and ProPublica.