Latinx Pop Lab

10/09/2026

Happy Friday everyone! This week we asked students what is a word or phrase in another language that they love and why? Comment yours down below! 💥

10/08/2026

Hi everyone! The Latinx Pop Lab has another exciting event coming: Día De Los Mu***os Crafting!!! Come to RLP 4.102 on Monday, November 2 from 11:30-1PM for crafting/altar making! We hope to see everyone there. 🌼

10/07/2026

How do we question the forces that make us silent? How do we challenge the idea that self-censorship will let others rebuild and take our place? See how Erika Abad's walkthrough of the Nevada Museum of Art's Into the Time Horizon exhibit gives some answers: https://wix.to/5xmsUHW

Here's hoping that, amid everything we work to preserve, the suffocating silence of censorship isn't one of them

10/05/2026

Do we get a say in what we inherit from our mamas? How do we decide what to pass on and what to leave behind? Check out Cordelia McDonald's review of Peggy Robles-Alvarado's Burn Me Back: https://wix.to/wJYF6Jc

What happens when a mother looks at her daughter and realizes she is repeating the very thing she once promised herself she would never do? What if the behaviors we inherit from our mothers are not always ones we would be proud to show off?

10/02/2026

Happy Friday from the LPL! This week we asked students what food from their culture they want more people to know about and try. If you feel inspired, try out some new foods and explore different cultures!

Comment down below a food from your culture that you love! 💥

09/30/2026

Edgar Gomez’s Alligator Tears is an exploration of leaving, healing, and coming home on your own terms. In our latest piece, Erika Abad reflects alongside Gomez on what it means to return to a changed place. Read the full review: https://wix.to/BrsfE7z

Gomez’s book shows us that we can leave, heal, grow, and come back: come back on our terms, and come back to test the air that time and space have changed.

09/29/2026

Hello everyone! Exactly one week from today the Latinx Pop Lab will be hosting another video game night! Our video game nights are great places to meet other students at UT, so stop by and take a break from classes with free snacks & drinks and video games! 🎮

When: October 6, 5:30-7PM
Where: RLP 4.102
Who: Everyone is welcome!

09/28/2026

Where Dreams Cross Borders: a thoughtful review of Rudy Ruiz’s coming-of-age novel that treats the border as metaphor and reality and its people as fully human. Read more: https://wix.to/YyEvSL8

a story where the border is simply home, and the people who live there are fully human—complex, contradictory, and achingly real.

09/27/2026

Latinx Pop Takes is hitting the Forty Acres for Hispanic Heritage Month. We asked UT students what culture, community, and celebration mean to them. Watch what they had to say, and come by the Latinx Pop Lab at RLP 4.102 to keep the conversation going. 💥💥💥

09/23/2026

Hot off the press!! Dive into Monica Gomez-Hira’s debut YA novel Once Upon a Quinceañera — a fierce, funny look at coming of age, family, and reclaiming your story. Read our interview and piece on how tradition, Latinidad, and rage collide amid Miami’s vibrant quince scene. Read more: https://wix.to/kjztlbg

In her debut YA novel, Once Upon a Quinceañera, Monica Gomez-Hira takes on coming of age, tradition, Latinidad, and patriarchal family structures through the lens of the quince. Her protagonist, Carmen Aguilar, ends up working as a hired performer at the quinceañera of her cousin Ariana, the same ...