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Suzy Exposito

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Award-winning music + culture journalist. Retired Florida goth. You can read my work in @latimes + @vogue + @rollingstone . 🇧🇿🇨🇺🏳️‍🌈

Los Angeles, CA
Joined June 2009
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
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"we will adopt your baby"
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4 years
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 😈
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I had to take on dog walking gigs to afford my first two years as a full-time employee at Rolling Stone. Unionize.
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You can donate to Nex's family here 💔 They need all the help they can get
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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.
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2 years
Here’s a list of abortion funds by state:
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THE SUPREME COURT HAS OVERTURNED ROE V. WADE, ELIMINATING THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO ABORTION.
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4 years
Ricky Martin describes him as a queer icon; I describe him as an agent of chaos. Bad Bunny is on the June cover of Rolling Stone.
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5 years
Bad Bunny calling for a general strike in Puerto Rico is the energy I need from pop stars in the States rn
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4 years
There’s a GoFundMe for Antonio here:
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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. My story @DenverChannel10 pm
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4 years
Don Omar and Romeo Santos deserve a Tony Award for this
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8 months
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.
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5 years
ATTN 2000s high school grads of the alt persuasion: where are you sitting???
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Good on Ayo for reminding people that actors are coworkers and that keeping a healthy work relationship means not indulging this kind of bullshit
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WHAT THE HELL
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4 years
Hate being forced to spend at least one (1) of my Hot Girl Years in quarantine and not at the goth clubs 😑
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3 years
my love language
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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! 🎄🧑🏼‍🎄🎄
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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! 🌞
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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. 🌴
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4 years
Dennis Rodman dribbled so Bad Bunny could run
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BTS singing along to Dolly Parton >>>>
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@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.
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4 years
Shot by Gabriela fucking Berlingeri!!! @gabs1229 🔥
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3 years
abolish the Latinx family sitcom industrial complex
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2 years
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
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5 years
This would pass for diaspora art
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1 year
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 🖤
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Resist the impulse to side with power because it’s intellectually less demanding
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“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 ✊🏼
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I, too, was psychically mauled by the Full Moon in Pisces
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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
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2 years
Somebody give this man an Oscar
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ICYMI: A vandal with a bone to pick spray-painted “Mike is a cheater” on an SUV parked in Northeast D.C. But it wasn’t Mike’s car.
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3 years
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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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👁️ Just gonna leave this here. RT as needed! 👁️
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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
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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:!
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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
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Keep your copy of Pet Sounds. That’s the vichy Beach Boys fronted by Mike Love 😬
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We are mad as hell but we will be resourceful. If you are pregnant in the United States and you don’t want to be, @AbortionFunds can help you. @ShoutYrAbortion can help you. @AidAccessUSA can help you. @Plancpills can help you.
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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.
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I sat through an hour of DJ Snake to see Cardi B, Ozuna and Selena Gomez sing “Taki Taki” — and it was better than I could’ve imagined 🔥
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So weather-wise, Los Angeles is now England and New York is now Los Angeles??
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3 years
It’s like that sometimes
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it's so sad how millions of people britney's never met are advocating for her and the people closest to her are not
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Midnights sounds like if you locked Reputation in an underground cellar and let it age for five years 🍷
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Don Draper after “Zou Bisou”
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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.
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What a king
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The way the crowd won’t stop cheering for Tracy 🥺 We missed you queen!!
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All I want in life right now is to be scooped like this gator in a t-shirt and taken to the key lime pie store
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I love Florida so much
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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.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez looking for Mitch McConnell in the cloak room
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3 years
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.
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I wish all my friends a lover who is NOT afraid of your hotness and WILL take the time to affirm it ♥️
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4 years
Another fun fact: Rolling Stone used to ask for sun, moon and rising signs in their job applications!
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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.
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I will never forget the white male j-school professor who once described my writing as “propaganda” then sent me a pitch years later 💁🏻‍♀️
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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?
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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
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This is me waiting for Fall Out Boy
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This week I took over the Latinx Files newsletter. To all the strange, moody, deadpan Latinas out there… Awaken, my sistren. This is our time. 🥀
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@jeannakadlec I get Norah Jones a lot!
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I’m 31 today 🌼
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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
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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. 🤷🏻‍♀️
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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.
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The timing lines up perfectly. I was a MM fan for most of my life but there's no question I'm with Evan now.
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Evan Rachel Wood describing the abuse she suffered when she was in a relationship with Marilyn Manson
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You know things are dire when GoFundMe has to step in and remind the government that it’s supposed to work for us
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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.
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Walter Mercado......windsexual icon
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“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.”
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Bisexuality is having its Saturn return
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Happy 28th birthday Bisexuality
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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:
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The movement to #FreeBritney from her conservatorship is part of a larger battle for disability justice. My latest for the @latimes :
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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.
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𝖗𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖊𝖑 𝖗𝖆𝖇𝖇𝖎𝖙 𝖜𝖍𝖎𝖙𝖊 🎡🎟
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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.
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I did not plan it this way but I literally brought home a black cat on Friday the 13th. 🐈‍⬛
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JOAN FUCKING JETT AND BIKINI KILL Y’ALL
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None of the people who mocked me for being a feminist at my college paper are editors at Rolling Stone 😚
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Name a time you proved someone wrong who doubted you. Be as petty as you like.
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Men like Marilyn Manson base their entire careers on avenging their high school bullies — then turn around and bully women all the same. Grow tf up.
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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!
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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.
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For @TheCut , I wrote about what it is we're avoiding as we bask in the long tail of girlhood 💫
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who is she
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Pisces risings Sagittarius risings 🤝 That natural Jupiterian cool 😎
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"Ex de Demi Lovato" is cracking me up. It's what he deserves
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Wilmer Valderrama, ex de Demi Lovato, debuta como papá
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Chilli just sang “No Scrubs” with Weezer and a kid walked by saying “Man Weezer keeps singing all this 80s stuff” #Coachella2019
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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.
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share a piece of lore about yourself
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I hate that the internet is one big Home Shopping Network now
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I have landed in Puerto Rico for the first time. And reader — I clapped! 👏🏼
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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. 🗡♥️🗡
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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.
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If you weren’t painstakingly crafting these for crushes in high school, you’re too young for me
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Today was my first day at the @latimes ! They already set me up with a cute bio page and a sparkly new email address. Now y'all can stop DMing me 😜
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3 years
Good morning! I wrote about growing up goth in Miami for Vogue 🌴🌚🌴 You can read it — or listen to me read it aloud in Cuban Daria voice!
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I personally don’t date people I wouldn’t be friends with. 🤷🏻‍♀️
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8 years
The Redemption of Florida Man
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Florida man punches George Zimmerman in the face for bragging about killing Trayvon Martin
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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.
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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 🫡
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💘 Dolly and Brandi Forever 💘 #NewportFolkFest
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What is it like to just make art? Without the often gendered/racialized expectation that you must also revolutionize the form?
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He was never the same after his mother died. I think about that a lot.
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