Chisme: An Ancestral Language
When Elisa Baena and Monica Morales-Garc\xeda first met on their first day as Latino USA fellows, they realized they were speaking a shared language \u2014 an ancestral tongue. They were chismeando!
\n\nChisme is the Spanish word for gossip. It happens when you speak about someone in their absence, sharing information that\u2019s supposed to be private and not necessarily factual.
\n\nIn this episode of Latino USA, Elisa and Monica travel deep into a chismosa\u2019s universe. They talk to professional chismosas from reality TV, entertainment news and academia to understand why chisme is so central in the lives of Latinas and Latinos.