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Welcome to our digital magazine just for Latina teens! We have a section for every Latina teen’s needs from advice to fashion, college tips to entertainment, health to beauty and interviews to poetry. We are a magazine by Latina girls, for Latina girls! This is your space to express yourself. If you want to have your writing or art featured on our pages, send us your submission and get published. If you have an idea for an article, just send us a message. Check out these recent stories by teens just like you.

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Beyond High School Years

School, besides being a place to make new friends, helps develop worthwhile habits that are useful for your future plans. To know what you want to be later in life, you may have to analyze who you are now, your strengths, weaknesses, talents, and interests. Someone very wise once said, “If you love your job, you [...]

Fun Stuff

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Las Comadres and Count on Me

There are many times in a person’s life when being alone isn’t enough and a comforting ear is needed. Las Comadres is an organization that grew with women in need of a good listener. It is a national network of women who meet within their own community once a month to talk about friendship, tell [...]

Get Real

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Traditional Dating

There are common stereotypes that Mexican families have strong conservative traditions when it comes to dating. One common stereotype is dating within one’s culture. It may have been like this a long time ago specifically for our grandparents and great-grandparents during a time where things were more traditional, and the world wasn’t so modern.  As [...]

Her History

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Career Spotlight: Marketing Manager

Name: Michelle Raphael Position and Title: Associate Marketing Manager for the Power To End Stroke campaign Employer: American Heart Association in Dallas, TX What are some of your job responsibilities? I manage all of the online properties for the Power To End Stroke movement and Vida Saludable, a healthy living site for Latinos. These include [...]

Latina Beat

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Learning Latina Culture in Argentina

I grew up thinking I was a little Latina. I knew elementary Spanish, and I believed that salsa (the spicier the better) was better than sliced bread. I tried to put cilantro on everything and my skin would tan darkly under the Texas sun. When I grew old enough  to realize that I was, in [...]

Your View

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Poem: The Island Of The Free

By Ashley Paramo The first time I went to America I had high hopes for what I would see. And even though I enjoyed myself I did not enjoy how Americans treated me. “It’s because you look Puerto Rican” My aunt said to me. But Puerto Rico is a part of America! How can Americans [...]