Vanessa Saenz

It’s been a while since I’ve written about fashion on my lachurrosstories… I figured why not bring it back before the semester ends…  We all know luxury bags by their name, however, sometimes we don’t know how those names came to be. I’m not sure if the average person thinks about this kind of stuff, but if you were to be curious, I am here to share the story of the one and only iconic bag, Hermés Birkin .  via: @Culturall.com Before getting into the details of the story on the bag name,...

In honor of UIC Radio's Week of Love, I decided to switch it up from the blog I did a few years ago where I showed, happier love films, this time it's all about the sad and realistic kind of love... I specifically talk about the film, Blue Valentine (2010). Summary: In this film, starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams, we get the sense from the beginning that the highs and the lows of a long relationship will start to unravel. It’s not a sort of “time travel” film, but the couple goes...

At the end of the month of September, it was announced that Bad Bunny will be performing for the Super Bowl LX Halftime Show. It was unreal how much controversy, debate, and backlash came up because of this announcement. It definitely had to do with the fact that during this time and months prior, public discourse was heavily focused on political tensions surrounding Latino belonging/identity in real life and mainstream media.  via YouTube: @NFL Apart from that point in time, all that was...