For the last three months, I’ve been busy dreaming, brainstorming, planning and writing with the fabulous Carrie, Marta, and Carla on this fantastic project- the Tiki Tiki. I’m super ilusionada to launch today!
The Tiki Tiki is a magazine-style website aiming to capture the “cultura, color and sabor” of living Latino in the United States through essays, recipes, contests, giveaways, photos, videos and a special feature we call “del alma.” It’s entertainment, information, and inspiration. For Latinas of every background, I guarantee you’ll recognize yourself, and your friends and familia in our features, and find yourself at home in the comunidad.
Where did the name Tiki Tiki come from? Carrie explains it best:
In Spanish — particularly Cuban Spanish — Tiki Tiki is a funny saying meaning constant conversation, constant habla habla, the kind of noise that would make non-Latinos a little crazy. It is talking fast, hands in constant motion about 17 subjects and somebodies all at once.
We adopted Tiki Tiki as our name because we plan on doing a lot of talking here, a lot of back and forth, about a lot of subjects and definitely all at once.
And also because it is the sound of a Spanish heartbeat – tiki-tiki-tiki-tak tiki-tiki-tiki-tak.
Go over there now and take a look! We’re hosting a Latino Book Month giveaway of five great books. (I would have entered it if I could have…instead I just bought 3/5 books). Head over, por favor, and leave a comment about the site on the contest post to be eligible to win. And tell all your friends!
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15 June 2009 at 9:46 pm
I recently discovered Tiki Tiki. Great job. I know I’ll be visiting the site every day. And yes, I will also be passing it on to friends and family and even talk about it in my blog. How can I not? I love it!
Thank you.