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!

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.