Hisplaining the Latino Approach to Food: Not Always Fast, but Often Fresh!

Yehudit Mam hisplains the difference between popular cuisines in the US and Latin America, which boils down to culture and cost

Hisplaining How to Make New Friends in Adulthood

Jessica Solt knows that making friends can be a tough skill. In her latest column, she details the unique ways she’s expanded her social circle.

Hisplaining Why It’s So Hard to Raise a Fully Bilingual Child

Jessica Solt hisplains the woes of watching your carefully laid plans for a bilingual child go out the window once they hit grade school

Hisplaining Why a Professional Creative Has to Make Tamales

In her inaugural column, writer Jessica Solt hisplains how an impulse to cook tamales gave her a new creative outlet while her advertising career takes an unexpected hiatus

Hisplaining Why Latin America Has Female Presidents

How come machista Latin American countries have had several female heads of state but the US has none? Yehudit Mam Hisplains this headscratcher.

Hisplaining Crypto—It’s Not as Scary as It Seems

In her inaugural column, Yehudit Mam breaks down the world of crypto, how it works, and when it’s time for skepticism

Hisplaining Latino Wealth—or Rather, Our Lack Thereof

Laura Martínez shares her family’s philosophy on financial savings, what puts Latinos on the wrong side of the wealth gap, and how it’s time for a change

Hisplaining September in Mexico and Its American “Primo” Hispanic Heritage Month

Laura Martinez celebrates this year’s Hispanic Heritage Month from Mexico and breaks down the order of festivities as well as what’s actually being celebrated in her home country

Hisplaining Why Nobody Should Freak Out about Multiracial People

Laura Martinez solves the “mystery” of VP Kamala Harris’s ethnic background, clears up what it actually means to be multiracial, and explains why racist haters should give it a rest

Hisplaining the Power of “La Chancla” as Feature of Latino Culture

To celebrate the warm weather season, Laura Martínez breaks down the multipurpose chancla, beloved by fashionistas and angry mom alike

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Hisplaining the Quadrennial Rediscovery of the Latino Vote

It’s that time again—Democrats and Republicans alike are rediscovering that Latinos hold the key to winning the White House for the next four years

Hisplaining Mexican Mother’s Day: Why ‘Madres’ Is Such a Great Word

A pocket guide to the colorful—and complex—uses of the word madre in Mexican Spanish. ¡Ándale!

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Hisplaining My Very Own Gender Pay Gap

Confessions of a self-sabotaging Latina writer. Laura Martínez unpacks the lack of female empowerment amidst the growing gender pay gap.

Hisplaining WhatsApp: Latin America’s Finest Source of (Mis)Information

In which Laura Martínez navigates how to keep up—and debunk—the fake news in (the many) family WhatsApp chats

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Hisplaining Navidad: How Latinos Celebrate Christmas with Posadas, Ponche & Piñatas

With Christmas just around the corner, Laura Martínez would like to remind you that the real Navidad happens on December 24

Hisplaining: Hispandering, or How Not to Get the Latino Vote

With the 2024 US general election in full swing, candidates on both sides of the political aisle courting the Latino vote would be well advised to read this column

Hisplaining: To Spanish or Not to Spanish

Does not knowing Spanish make you less Latino? Laura Martinez tackles this question while dreaming up a future where everyone is forced to speak Spanish—even the gringos

Latinos don't trust banks
Hisplaining: Why Latinos Don’t Plan for the Future or Trust Banks

After a decade in the US, humorist Laura Martinez has not adopted the American penchant for planning. This includes financial planning, educational planning, and funeral planning.

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Hisplaining: Summer in America

In this special summer segment, Laura Martínez hisplains vacation in different continents and why there is no time off for the overworked American employee

Hisplaining Drinking Alone in Mexico
Hisplaining: Going Out for a Drink in Mexico? Bring a Man

Laura Martinez warns American businesswomen visiting her country about the social (and hydration) hazards of venturing out for a drink on their own

About

Founding Hisplainer Laura Martínez is bilingual writer and editor with over twenty-five years of experience writing about business, media, technology, and pop culture in Latin America and the US. As a journalist working in Mexico, Chile, Argentina, and now the US, she has helped launch—and grow—several publications, both in print and digital.

Throughout her journalistic career, Martínez has worked as a reporter, writer, and editor in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Panama, Santiago, São Paulo, and Buenos Aires. She has been a keynote speaker at major events both in Latin America and the United States.

Martínez has a soft spot for Hispanic marketing and pop culture, especially when they’re taken to laughable extremes (something that is behind her fourteen-year-old blog). A native of Mexico City, she likes to call herself a “grammar nerd” and was able to combine her passion for language and humor in a book, Talk Dirty Spanish, cowritten with Alexis Munier.

Martínez is currently on hiatus. You can always find her on her blog, Blue Sky, and Instagram.