Everyone has a podcast. Even your dog has a podcast. But when it comes to diversity, it’s no surprise that white people dominate the platform. According to 2018 data from Edison Research, 59 percent of U.S. podcast listeners were white—only 12 percent were Black and 11 percent were Latinx. While podcasting continues to rapidly grow, its diversity and accessibility are slowly catching up.
“[Being Latinx] doesn’t mean that you need to be fluent. It doesn’t mean that you need to be born in your country,” she says. “There’s so many different meanings and takes to what being a Latino is. And so that’s where we wanted to go and just have real conversations about what it actually is to be a person in this time.”
“If we were to have the name how it was, we would be taking away that part of every person to tell their own identity and you never want to strip that away from anyone,” Moreno says. “Let someone say who they are before you even say it for them because as Latinos, we are constantly told who we are.”
