The Roots of Mental Health in Young Latinas
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2019
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The documentary “Some Girls” tackles the issue of mental health in young Latinas in America. Maria and Julio talk to ITT All-Star Raquel Cepeda, author and documentarian, about her film and how mental health is connected to beauty standards and cultural identity.
This episode was mixed by Jeanne Montalvo.
ITT Staff Picks:
- Watch Raquel’s film “Some Girls” for a look into mental health of young Latina Americans.
- This op-ed on why Latinx people need better mental health support, via Teen Vogue.
- This piece on how one woman learned to embrace her Afro-Latina identity, from HipLatina.For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
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| 0:25.0 | Hula, go, play. |
| 0:27.0 | Hey, welcome to In The Thick. |
| 0:30.0 | This is a podcast about politics, race and culture |
| 0:32.0 | from a POC perspective. I'm Maria Inuosa. |
| 0:34.6 | And I'm Julio Ricalo Barella. And today we are so happy. I'm so excited to have you |
| 0:40.4 | right here in the studio with me one of our all stars the |
| 0:43.8 | Rakesepea author documentarian all around brilliant fabulous sister all-star |
| 0:49.5 | welcome back to the show that was really really nice. Thank you for having me. |
| 0:53.0 | We're so, we're so happy that you. |
| 0:54.4 | And thank you for giving me love back. |
| 0:57.1 | And if you haven't read her book, |
| 0:58.5 | Bird of Paradise, How I Became Latina, |
| 1:01.1 | is just a beautiful, beautiful book. And some ways it leads us to why we're having you on this |
| 1:06.6 | special edition of In The Thick where it's just a one-on-one with you because we want to talk |
| 1:11.1 | about the film that you made. |
| 1:14.0 | It's called Some Girls. |
| 1:15.8 | And you know, you and I have actually been talking throughout the whole process. |
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