Vanessa Saenz

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...

i was inspired by the poem, “life after you” by hayley grace . i saw her post through Instagram and realized how i too think about the...