Put Your Headphones on: Five Podcasts Hosted by Latinxs
There’s a lot to appreciate about podcasts. It's a great way to learn about niche topics, hear in-depth thoughts from interesting people, but most of all, podcasts provide a platform for underrepresented voices in media. The podcasts on this list cover a wide range of topics from the perspective of Latinx hosts, with the Latinx community in mind. These hosts are having conversations about navigating our emotions, our communities, and the world at large.
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PRX’s Latino USA podcast is the longest-running Latinx-focused program on U.S. radio and is executive produced and anchored by award-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa. Each episode shares the stories of Latinx communities and the intersection of cultural, political and social ideas affecting Latinxs across the U.S.
In each episode of Latina to Latina, host Alicia Mendez talks to outstanding Latinas about how they navigate the world. This light-hearted podcast discusses the challenges of existing, and then thriving, as women of color.
Alexandra Nichole Salazar-Vasquez documents the lives and experiences of LGBTQ+ people in the Rio Grande Valley while highlighting social movements and queer spaces within the area.
Lina and Estephanie are two Dominican podcasters from the Bronx and they’re the hosts of Bag Ladiez. Their podcast is about baggage and their goal is to help themselves and listeners to be vulnerable about how the world affects them and their ability to live their truest life.
HOW TO TALK TO MAMI AND PAPI ABOUT ANYTHING
Award-winning journalist Juleyka Lantigua-William offers practical advice to adult children of immigrants on talking to their parents about topics that are taboo to them in her podcast.
Written by Chantal Vaca and Aarna Dixit
