The unsinkable
@sanbenito
stopped by Rolling Stone today to share some songs from his new album 💜 I won’t spoil anything but there are some epic surprises in store 😈
A nonbinary student (Nex) and a trans student were attacked by a group of girls in a bathroom at a school in Oklahoma, where the governor recently signed an anti-trans bathroom bill into law. The school didn't call an ambulance + suspended Nex for 2 weeks. They died the next day.
A paleta man (ice cream man) is recovering after he was beaten until he lost consciousness.
Antonio, 64, was packing up his ice cream cart for the day when 3-4 suspects attacked him. They made off with his earnings for the day, $65.
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@DenverChannel10
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Counter to the historical revisionism by jaded millennials: It was NOT considered cool to listen to Avril, Paramore, or really any women in rock during the 2000s! Karen O would get crucified on the boards. I got hate mail for writing about Evanescence just a few years ago.
Hey Twitter! I want to bring your attention to the Trans Santa project, a campaign to send holiday gifts to trans kids who are homeless, in foster care, or otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford gifts. Click the link below to help someone in need! 🎄🧑🏼🎄🎄
I’m SO stoked to announce that I will be joining the
@latimes
as their new music reporter, starting October 5th. I do plan to move to Los Angeles in the months to come, once it’s safe to do so! 🌞
THIS COVER WAS BROUGHT TO YOU BY LATINAS. I'm the first Latina to write a Rolling Stone cover story. Bad Bunny's kick-ass partner, Gabriela Berlingeri, is the first Latina to shoot one.
@wannabedb
is the angel who transcribed and translated five hours of interviews. Dale. 🌴
@GirlsGutsGiallx
I feel you. It's like I have some socially heavy weeks, work-heavy weeks and self-management (cooking/cleaning/exercising) weeks. Never, ever at the same time. It's why a lot of successful/upwardly mobile people have help.
They found the girl behind the girlsplaining meme! Her name is Denise Sanchez and she's from Argentina.
"She wasn't explaining anything in the photo — she was actually just busy trying to sing a cumbia song to him." h/t
@knowyourmeme
Aubrey Plaza read my moody Latina story?!
“It’s important to normalize that there’s all kinds of different Latina people. I mean, all my Puerto Rican cousins are, like, morbid. Morbid shit is going on over there!”
Profile by
@jawnita
for
@VanityFair
🖤
“I’m not here to be a victim. I lived with victims my whole life when I was a child. That’s why I got out of my house and worked for 20 years. And I worked my ass off.”
“I’m here to be an advocate for people with real disabilities and illnesses.”
Go off Britney ✊🏼
I wrote about
@xlilhuddy
— the TikTok influencer and star of Machine Gun Kelly's musical film, "Downfalls High" — who spent the quarantine writing his own pop-punk record
I'm deleting this in two minutes but can we please get an investigation of men who delay having children? I assure you that successful women are not single-handedly stalling population growth
Women almost everywhere in the U.S. are delaying having children, resulting in profound changes to American motherhood.
The birthrate is falling fastest in places with the greatest job growth as women prioritize education and careers.
Hi new followers! For those who don't know me already: I'm a second-gen Cuban-Belizean, based in NYC and raised in Florida. I am currently the editor of Rolling Stone's Latin music section. I also illustrate and make music! Virgo sun/moon, Pisces rising. Se habla Spanglish.
Dating for fun and dating for a partner are two very different things. Neither is more noble than the other, but you still gotta make sure everyone’s on the same page.
I'm one of 115 who were let go from LAT today. I'm proud of what
@delosLAtimes
accomplished and thank the Guild for securing us severance. I guess now's a good time to finish my novel-slash-screenplay!
Hmu if you need an LA-based writer, singer or DJ: suzy dot exposito at gmail
It’s official: I got a promotion :~)
I am now a cultural columnist for the
@latimes
’ sparkling new Latino Initiatives team. Read the full announcement below:!
J Balvin, Bad Bunny, Mon Laferte, Rosalía, Tomasa del Real, Tucanes de Tijuana, Javiera Mena, Las Robertas, Hurray for the Riff Raff.... and Blackpink, who may not be Latina but united we stan
On the cover of today’s Sunday Calendar: I interviewed
@selenagomez
about her Tejano heritage, and how she overcame years of self-doubt to record her first EP in Spanish, Revelación.
I think the worst surprise you can give me is a performance. Like you dancing or singing for me. I’m not emotionally mature enough to sit through that.
Anyone who knows anything about Latin American history — even just the number of military coups and genocides within the last 50 years alone — would NOT question a Latino embracing a fascist ideology. And it's not worth engaging people who do.
Hate to be sincere on a Friday night but: it’s only because of the federal student loan moratorium that I was finally able to pay off two credit cards and a private student loan. I work a white collar job and it took me 14 years to do that. Just
#CancelStudentDebt
already.
Ok what I find off-putting about Euphoria is not that they are teens who have sex and do drugs — it’s that none of them are goofy in the way actual kids are goofy. A show devoid of shenanigans. Lexi dressing up as Bob Ross was the closest thing we got and I loved her for that.
The
@guardian
removed this portion of Judith Butler's interview after publishing with the note, "This article was edited on 7 September 2021 to reflect developments which occurred after the interview took place." What developments? Why interview Butler at all?
They have so much original content at their disposal. MTV Diary. Cribs. Daria. Carmen: A Hip Hopera. Even old episodes of TRL. ANYTHING BUT RIDICULOUSNESS
Hot take: you can date a queer woman or person of color without it being some grand testament to your radical politics. Many of us are just trying to drink wine and watch bad movies, stop being weird
Fellow bi girls with boyfriends…..I’m begging you to speak kindly about the men you choose to date. Don’t idealize relationships with women just because yours takes work. Every relationship takes work, regardless of gender; it’s easier when you date people you actually like. 🤷🏻♀️
Olivia Rodrigo is like a theater-pop chimera of the artists I grew up listening to. I think it's cool that her music may be a gateway for younger women and girls (esp. of color!) to access the realm of rock and alternative, those who may not know where else to start.
The situation is nothing short of a national emergency.
Congress should treat it as such by quickly passing a bill whose generosity is commensurate with the need.
Read our full op-ed in
@USATODAY
from GoFundMe CEO, Tim Cadogan.
“I didn’t think I was ready to make a record in Spanish,” Selena Gomez tells the
@latimes
. “I was fluent in Spanish until I started working at 7. Then my job just kinda took over my life.”
Britney Spears' court date is today! This hearing will be closed to the public, but we may find out if Spears has permission to choose her own lawyer.
Here's how Spears' case demonstrates everyday civil rights violations of Americans living with disabilities and mental illness:
As part of their new terms of service, Instagram is now deleting the accounts of sex workers and anyone they vaguely associate with "adult content" — which can also extend to educators, artists and LGBTQ people. We should all be very worried.
Instagram deleted me, no warning.
my personal account, as a writer and poet.
I even combed closely through and deleted anything that seemed to not apply with the new extremely vague tos. This is fucked.
It’s not every day you write a story that has its own merch 🕺🏻 Rolling Stone’s Bad Bunny cover is now one of a few legendary covers (including Janis Joplin and Tupac) to be on a t-shirt!
Love this essay. Girlhood was tough for me, so I couldn't wait to be a grown woman. I was excited to tell people I was in my 30s, because I liked to imagine that more power would come with age. It feels like it hasn't though, and now I'm an adult fending off ads for Mary Janes.
I was once recruited for a role in Girls as Lena Dunham’s ethnic hipster neighbor.
I would have had to quit my job for the prospect of appearing in 1.5 episodes, non-union, so I declined.
Today is my last day at Rolling Stone! I’ll miss my coworkers and all the zany moments we shared — the nights our rock & roll heroes died, the many outdoor festivals we survived, and of course, KARAOKE. These past five years were so transformative and I’m forever grateful. 🗡♥️🗡
The post-layoff depression kicked in this morning. I'd resigned myself to rot in bed all day. Then I got up, drank a protein shake and remembered who the fuck I am.
The thing about non-Black Latines is that, regardless of how much structural racism or xenophobia we MIGHT experience here in the U.S., we’re raised to feel entitled to anti-Black racism as a consolation prize. It’s an embarrassment.
This was my official last day at the L.A. Times. I will not pitch them nor work with them for the foreseeable future. I do not care to discuss the layoffs. I’m just gonna enjoy my severance checks in peace! Thank you
@latguild
for being the realest in the biz 🫡