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A Fat Queer Black Girl Who Tells Stories. TV Credits: The Morning Show, Maid, Queen Sugar & more. @USCCinema Alum & Professor. Lisa & Anthony’s Difficult Child.
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Here’s an ongoing thread of all the talented, driven, charming, and intelligent Black writers I’ve been meeting with. Any writers’ room in Hollywood would be lucky to have their voices, ideas, and insights. Read them. Meet them. Hire them. Promote them.
Last week kicked off my first round of Zoom chats with Black writers working to break into Hollywood/TV/staffing. I have been SO INSPIRED and HELLA IMPRESSED by the folks I'm meeting with. Would like to shout all of them out, so y'all can follow/read/hire/staff them!
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EXCITING NEWS!!! I can officially share that I'm now a producer on
#TheMorningShow
! Working for one of my favorite people in the world, Charlotte Stoudt — who started my TV writing career by staffing me almost 3 years ago… It's all been very dreamy!
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I try so hard to mind my fucking business. HOWEVER…
There is a scammer in our midst, and y’all keep enabling him. Meanwhile there are Black women actually doing extraordinary community building work in Hollywood. And they haven’t accepted a DIME for it.
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I've avoided making this kinda announcement on social media because no one cares. Then I thought that instead of making this about ME, but I could make this about all the people who helped me realize this dream. So…
Last week, I got staffed. I am now a paid, working TV writer.
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Please do not settle for bad reps because you think a bad rep is better than no rep. I'm having the time of my life right now professionally and it's because my reps are good people who are good at their jobs and believe in me.
Wait for whoever deserves your talent.
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I can finally stop being vague… I'm a co-producer on S6 of
#QueenSugar
! It's been a wild ride. I am a supremely grateful heart, because I delight so much in telling Black stories.
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I just read
@CAMONGHNE
’s incredible profile of Simone Biles for New York Magazine and it is absolutely required reading. She is the greatest gymnast of all time. She is also a young Black woman healing from trauma and sexual abuse. Essential reading.
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I struggle with thinking I have anything of value to offer. But I’ve staffed consistently since last May. I’m an ESE-level TV writer & with *some* (tho not much) experience pitching. If you’re a BLACK WRITER hoping to work in TV, DM me. Let’s chat. Priority to women/LGBTQ folks.
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@abedelrey
@sammhuisache
OMG. Why did homegirl even try to start talking after she said rhinestones and polyester?
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I'm hearing from a lot of friends who are either trying to staff for the first time or trying to get their second staffing job that they're not even able to submitted because shows are now only hiring upper-level writers (OR my other big gripe, not hiring staffs at all).
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It’s October 1. The strike is over. I have two scripts to write, so my reps don’t know I spent most of the summer playing The Sims and watching reality TV. It’s time for me to get off this goddamn app. Drink ya water. Mind ya business. And support LL and Pre-WGA writers! ✌🏾
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I have time today:
#Hollywood
, the answer to your anti-Blackness is not another crop of “diversity mentorship initiatives” to spring up in which Black folks are required to do additional labor and pimp out our traumas for the same opportunities our white peers auto-quality for.
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A BIG shout out to the UL writers & showrunners who've spearheaded
#WGAStaffingBoost
and
#WGASolidarityChallenge
. As a baby writer and QWOC hustling for my first staffing job, this dream often feels impossible. I've felt more possible in the past 2 weeks than in the past 4 years.
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LA is God’s city.
Fight ya mama about it. Mines an Angeleno too.
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I took some time away from social media, but this happened and it's just too good for me not to share with Twitter. This week, my first episode of TV to air dropped on
@hbomax
.
#GENERATION
Ep. 111. I am a supremely grateful heart.
#Griley
4eva. 💜
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In my experience, white folks really don't like being talked to in a certain "tone" by Black women… That "tone" simply being assertive, direct, etc. But they have no problem talking (down) to us in that same tone.
And y'all… I. Am. Tired.
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1. Read
@imanicezanne
's experience w/
@AmericanAir
. 2. RETWEET. 3. Boycott them forever & tell everyone you know to.
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This year has taken so much away from us, so many of ours from us. But what it has rooted even deeper is my Supreme Love for Black people — here in the U.S. and across the globe. I spent so much of my childhood hating my Blackness, but now it is the thing I thank God for most.
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You wanna hire and advance Black folks? Hire and advance us. Period. And make sure to pay us the same amount of money that our white peers make when you do it. You don’t need to create extra programs and hoops for us to jump through.
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I know y’all SICK of me tweeting about my shows, but I WROTE NEXT WEEK’S EPISODE OF
#QUEENSUGAR
!!! 🙌🏾Director Bertha Pan was so lovely and generous. I know
@seanlinal
edited it to beauty. Grateful to
@SparksAnthony
and
@ava
for the opportunity! See y’all next week! 💜
Next week's episode of
@QueenSugarOWN
is next level! Directed with such care by Bertha Pan and written by the uber talented
@MichelleJigga
!
Y'all it's soo good. I know I say this every week but I really mean it you don't want to miss this one!
#QueenSugar
#GimmieSugar
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This is really how I know so many of the gatekeepers — many of them white — in this industry were not serious about making things better after the reckoning this summer. POC, disabled, LGBTQ+, women writers are woefully underrepresented at all levels of the industry.
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The WGA should also rethink its stance on not providing more coverage and support to pre-WGA writers and support staff who work in WGA signatory rooms. Your writers' PA, writers' assistant, showrunners' assistant, researcher, and script coordinator want to be STAFFED.
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In every single room I've worked in, the majority of support staff were either POC, women, or some other marginalized group. Often all three! The message this sends is: We're good enough to support your rooms, but we're not good enough to write in them. Like… Come on.
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I have never felt so alone in my life, and I would not wish it on my worst enemy.
My professional success has quite honestly been isolating, but no one ever wants to hear that.
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Your mentorship programs. Your diversity initiatives. Your tweets. They all mean nothing if you are not willing to PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOU SAY YOUR POLITICS LIVE. If we can't even get into the rooms for staffing & unable to launch our careers… How are y'all helping us?
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The root: We are not given opportunities to staff and promoted at the same rate as our white (straight abled male) counterparts. How can an industry become more inclusive and diverse if y'all are LITERALLY barring marginalized/underrepresented writers from the room?
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Today is the last day of the
#QueenSugar
S6 writers’ room and the day of the S5 finale! What an incredible journey we’ve been on… Please watch tonight! The finale won’t disappoint and neither will S6 when it airs later this year! Onward, always. 🙌🏾🖤
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I cannot believe I have to live the rest of my life in a world where Cicely Tyson doesn't pop up as a surprise in some of my favorite shows and movies, making her scene partners work damn hard to keep up with her brilliance.
RIP to one of the very best we had.
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I don’t know if anyone really wants their own house. I think most of us just don’t want upstairs neighbors.
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I really hope the WGA plans to address this in its next negotiations with the studios. To me, every WGA signatory writers' room should be REQUIRED to hire a SW (& SE if we're really 'bout it). SWs are the LEAST expensive writer in the room. I'm tired of budget being the excuse.
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I just watched the
#AbbottElementary
pilot. All I can say is WOW, what a special show. As the daughter of LAUSD public educators, it made me laugh and cry. Bowing down to
@quintabrunson
& everyone else involved with the show for their heart, humor & brilliance! WATCH THIS SHOW!!!
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Last week kicked off my first round of Zoom chats with Black writers working to break into Hollywood/TV/staffing. I have been SO INSPIRED and HELLA IMPRESSED by the folks I'm meeting with. Would like to shout all of them out, so y'all can follow/read/hire/staff them!
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If we are unable to get that first staffing job, it means we're not able to begin working our way up the room hierarchy from LL to ML to UL. This means that the writers who are also being hired at the UL ranks are also white (straight abled dudes).
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How is this acceptable to showrunners who claim to support more inclusive writers' rooms? How is this acceptable to studios who make a big public show of saying they're supporting efforts to make their shows more inclusive and diverse?
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I do a good job of sharing my wins and flexes on here. So today, I’m sharing a loss.
I didn’t get an opportunity that I really really really wanted. I’ve faced many rejections on this path, and will continue to. Nothing you can do but keep pushing. But this one still hurts.
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I've been cackling alone in my apartment for the last 5 or 10 minutes.
It's not even joy. It is my last iota of sanity leaving my body as I finally accept that 2020 is just the most absurd year any of us will ever live* through.
(A lot of us died/will die because of that POS.)
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*Sings* Every white writer and showrunner I know is about to be mad as hell when I hit them with a spreadsheet with the names, e-mails, and loglines of all the Black women DMing me, so they ain't got no excuuuuuuuse anymooooore! LOL.
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This year has been dark, but today is only light.
#MrsAmerica
is Emmy nominated. Tanya Barfield, one of the kindest and most talented writers I've ever worked with, is Emmy nominated. For bringing Shirley Chisholm's incredible story to mainstream TV. Only light today.
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If shows are not hiring staff writers, you block the industry from becoming more inclusive and diverse. And only hiring UL — again, when many POC, disabled, women & other underrepresented writers don't get the chance to even staff — to work in your rooms also prevents this.
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On the first day of the S6 writers' room,
@ava
and
@SparksAnthony
walked us through Season 5. I'll never forget Ava saying that she wanted folks to look back on
#QueenSugar
S5 and see it was a definitive portrait of the Black experience in 2020. It all begins Tues 2/16 at 8pm!
.
@Ava
DuVernay Opens Up About How
#QueenSugar
Season 5 Became a Time Capsule for Black People in 2020
#BlackAndBold
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I have been so lucky: When I was a LL writer, my showrunners fought to hire me and they fought to promote me. This should NOT be the exception to the rule. Every talented, hard-working, intelligent writer with something to say deserves the opportunity to staff. Period.
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ONLY hiring UL writers is exclusionary, lol. It's literally the exact opposite of inclusive.
We don't move forward and we don't do better by employing the same tactics that got us here in the first place. It's time to do better. /fin
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Six days left. I hope all my California homies — especially you transplants gentrifying neighborhoods that were historically POC and working class 🙃 — vote NO in the recall election. Send those ballots in early, friends.
#VoteNoOnRecall
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I'm not big on these kind of tweets. I find them annoying & often willfully ignorant of the realities of how challenging it is to break into this industry AND sustain both a career & yourself, but alas…
If you are doubting whether you'll make it you, you will. Keep striving.
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11 months and one week in, and I feel absolutely dead inside. 🙃
Still COVID-free though!!!
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On Friday, October 1, all 10 episodes of MAID drop on
@Netflix
. I grew so much as a writer. I loved working on this show so dearly. I hope y’all love it too. 💛
Inspired by the New York Times Best-selling memoir, Margaret Qualley, Andie MacDowell, Nick Robinson, Billy Burke, and Anika Noni Rose star in Maid — one woman's inspiring story of motherhood, survival and resilience.
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1. Charlotte Stoudt is my showrunner (
#PiecesofHer
upcoming next year on Netflix). She's a 1st time SR who's fought for EVERY success she's had. She's also the 1st SR I've worked for as an assistant who treated me like a writer.
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IDK who needs to hear this, but… Go to therapy. Just had the session with my therapist that I've been working toward for years. And it feels great.
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I hope one day Hollywood learns to be appalled by an individual's abusive and virulent behavior while also being honest about how at some point, the whole system was complicit in allowing these "individuals" to remain successful and in positions of power…
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Y'all,
#QueenSugar
is back with S5, babyyy! As a true fan, I'm SO excited to watch it starting on Feb. 16th! This trailer gave me CHILLS. And I'm even more excited to continue telling the stories of the Bordelon family for S6.
"We've been through more storms than most have ever seen. But we're still here."
#QUEENSUGAR
returns Tuesday, February 16 at 8|7c
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Immensely grateful to be in this room, with these writers, telling the stories of the Bordelon family — and thus, Black folks in America during this time.
For those of y'all familiar with The Sweatshirt, that's two names down… Three more to go, lol.
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1. Two folks have told me about this tweet because it’s
#MAIDNetflix
x
#QueenSugar
hive all day over here.
2. Nothing I love more than my former boss loving the other show I worked on before.
3. I wrote Ep. 6 of Maid and Ep. 6 of this season of Queen Sugar. Full circle much?
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All this Sansa slander is not necessary, y’all.
Especially because her sister fights.
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“I told you I’d be here.”
And that’s the end of
#QueenSugar
606. Thank y’all for watching and tweeting and loving this show so much. When the show first aired, I was just a huge fan. And now, I’ve written an episode. It means the world to me. Tonight, I’m a grateful heart. 🙌🏾
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Y’all gotta stop being alarmed when a bitch says she was crying. I’m a human being. We cry. I cry when I’m happy, when I’m sad, when I’m mad, when I’m frustrated. I just cry. It’s OK. You’re allowed to cry too.
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I have been writing everyday for the past week. Not nearly enough on the scripts and pitches I should be working on to pay my bills, but on "extracurricular" writing that feels truthful and urgent and healing. It's one of the best choices I've made this year.
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Twitter is convinced I want to see ~screenwriter Twitter~ tweets and I ✨absolutely don't✨!
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Today, I received a kind of rejection in two different areas of my life. And felt jealousy swell up inside of me for the first time in a long time. A year ago, this would have gutted me. Tonight, I am allowing myself to feel my feelings. And then I'm moving on. It's nice.
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I am writing my first official outline as a professional TV writer. Today, I wrote the sentence: "She runs back to chickens."
And I have no idea why.
Did I also mention I hold an MFA?
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You're all making the same Maya Rudolph joke, which means SNL needs more Black women cast members.
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I find most of “Writer Twitter ™️” borderline insufferable. There is a lot of posturing that happens on here. I believe our work and our relationships should matter most; not our social media engagement.
But still, I don’t play about my guild. Period.
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New rule: If you’ve ever sang along to Hamilton, you have to donate to bail funds.
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Lauging remembering the boldest thing I’ve ever done: Liked a guy, got rejected, wrote a web series about the experience, and then cast him to play the character based off him while I played myself… And we’re still friends.
Honestly, I’m an icon.
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Tomorrow.
@QueenSugarOWN
Season 6. Writing this show was a long-awaited dream finally fulfilled. As a girl whose family is from Louisiana, I wanted to do a good job. I believe we did. I hope y’all do too.
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It took a lot of hard work and preparation and patience on my part. (Also, complaining. I complain a lot.) But mostly, it was LUCK and having some very ride-or-die allies and advocates in this industry. I'm naming & thanking them all here. This is my
#WGAStaffingBoost
.
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PLEASE STAFF TF OUTTA JACKIE!!! Incredible writer. Incredible human being. Served as a strike captain for 146 days. Ran for the Board. Has been a champion of support staff and LL writers for years, with no agenda other than to uplift her fellow writers.
Hello Showrunners!
If you need a LL writer for your drama room 🙋🏾♀️. I was previously a SE & produced my episode. I also helped produce events for 146 days at WB 🙃. I love soap, YA, family drama, fantasy & period dramas. Oh & I’m always trying to make characters kiss 💋.
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The depth and bounty of love I currently have in my life is astounding. I still yearn for a romantic partner, but I’m so fortunate to have found so many of my soul’s best mates. 💕🙌🏾🌻✨
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In the past 2 days, I've watched all of
#IMayDestroyYou
. I just finished Ep. 5 30 minutes ago and sobbed. Sobbed for so many reasons. For so many people, most of all myself. I can't believe she was allowed to make this show, but I'm so damn grateful. So fucking grateful.
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Why come my reps made sure to congratulate me when I was nominated for a WGA Award, but not when the show I wrote on was nominated (and won) an NAACP Image Award?
(I know why. I’m just being messy. Time to go to bed. I’ve enough chaos for the day.)
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It took me such a long time to really love and fux with myself heavy. Like, too long.
But in the last six or so months, ya girl has been feeeeeeeeelin’ herself. It’s wonderful. I highly recommend adopting the attitude that you are 100% that bitch.
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Every studio/network in Hollywood should be throwing money at Charlotte to run their shows. Every writer in Hollywood should be vying to work for her. She's kind and talented and smart AF. (She'll hate me for this plug, but she wrote the most recent of episode of
#FosseVerdonFX
.)
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@cmf_egrma
As a survivor, today (and the past two weeks) have been exhausting and retraumatizing. Even if empowering for many others, which I support.
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I’m sharing this for no other reasons than (a) this room has been an absolute DREAM and (b) to be petty as hell. Y’all lucky I’m not quoting Too Short.
I cannot wait for y’all to ~experience~ this show. 🙌🏾✨
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Thank God I'm a writer. On my heaviest days, I can write my way through them.
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Queer Black Woman ESE-level (mostly) TV writer who centers stories about marginalized folks being messy while getting whole & free. I make the political deeply personal on the page. Prev. staffed: MAID (Netflix), GENERATION (HBO Max), PIECES OF HER (Netflix)
#BlackScreenwriters
Okay
#BlackScreenwriters
of all levels, pitch yourself in a tweet or thread with this hashtag.
I'll do what I can, which may not be much but it'll be something.
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I genuinely get goosebumps whenever I see this Shirley Chisholm intro. "Why not?" She was before her time. We owe her so much. There'd be no Obama or Hilary without Shirley. Please, if you don't know about her, research her.
#MrsAmerica
#MrsAmericaWatchParty
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I just need everyone to see how scarily accurate my dad's Bitmoji is.
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No one is more excited about Kamala Harris being named Biden's VP pick than liberal white women, LOL.
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Singing the praises of my mentor, TV and screenwriter Sharon Hoffman (who still won't tell me her @), who sends me a postcard every other week: words of encouragement, an original portrait of Baxter, Beyoncé. SHE'S THEE BEST.
Why be a Karen when you can be a Sharon?
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A special shoutout to the leaders, readers, and participating writers of the
#WGAStaffingBoost
and
#WGASolidarityChallenge
. In April, I was a writers' assistant. On Monday, I became a full (voting!) member of the WGA. None of this would've happened without y'all.
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I'm now a co-producer on a show I hounded my manager for years to get on.
@rukayat
is officially my agent. I'm still in therapy, lol.
But also, I just… didn't give up. I wrote my way through the darkness. I fought like hell for this dream. I fought like hell for my life.
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MAID drops on
@netflix
THIS FRIDAY!!! Working in this room was foundational to and transformative for my career. I love
@stepville
’s memoir and I love the story
@SmithMetzler
created from it. I hope y’all watch. 💕
Inspired by the New York Times Best-selling memoir, Margaret Qualley, Andie MacDowell, Nick Robinson, Billy Burke, and Anika Noni Rose star in Maid — one woman's inspiring story of motherhood, survival and resilience.
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I just turned in the second episode of TV I’ve ever written. A year ago, I was an assistant. Since then, I’ve been staffed on three shows. (
#PeakTV
) I have been lucky enough to work for people I deeply respect and with people I deeply love. I’m a grateful heart.
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I have incredible respect for the production crews, editors, and writers’ room support staff (AKA WRITERS) who are willing to sacrifice to push the industry forward in terms of better wages, working conditions, and benefits. This is long overdue. Give. Them. Hell.
#IASolidarity
An IATSE Strike Would Shut Down Film and TV Production Coast to Coast
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I am what most white folks think as a “good” Black. I make most white folks who know me feel safe and good about knowing me.
I am 100% in support of Black folks fucking shit up and burning shit down in resistance to state-sanctioned violence and institutional racism.
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When I got a staffing meeting elsewhere, she said, "You're ready." So she fought with the studio to make sure that I was able to staff and write an episode of our series. She literally made my dream come true.
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Stepped back from social media, but I have a lil update.
Last year, my mentor gave me an orchid plant. For the first 6 months, she thrived. But the past 6 months, I've neglected her—to the point I thought she was a lost cause.
This week, I noticed she's growing a new leaf.🌱✨
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For the past month or so, I've been more consistent with my prayer and gratitude practices. They help center me when things get too intense/hectic. 🌻
Today, I am grateful that I get to write and tell stories for a living. Doing joyful work in this world is a privilege. 🙌🏾✨
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Because they were too cool to pre-record their speech on Zoom, here is what it looked like in REAL TIME when
@MrsAm_FXonHulu
won a WGA AWARD!!!
One day, I’ll write about everything this show gave me. Until then, I remember: “All of the future exists in the past.”
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She not only encouraged me to participate in the room on the same level as the other writers, but expected it. Noting outlines and scripts. Pitching story in the room. Drafting character and story documents. Affirmed me every step of the way.
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Tweeting
#SurvivorLoveLetter
early because I will be at work: February 14th is a loaded day for me. For many reasons. But it’s also a day that I get to remind myself that self-love and self-sustainability are a journey, not a destination.
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Since all I do is complain about dating, I guess…
#Twinder
Michelle. 32. LA. Queer. Looking for homies always, a boo thang if the vibe is right. Let’s chat about feelings, dreams & pop culture. Or go to brunch, dinner, a bookstore, a park? I honestly forgot how to be outside.
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@TheKileyDonovan
,
@JalysaConway
,
@aprilshih
and
@jajwong
wrote the blueprint on how to KILL THE GAME as staff writers/story editors. I can only hope to be half the woman/writer they all are. Seriously. They all share the 1st place title for the bad b*tch contest, lol.
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Having a cat is fun. Just a tiny predator living in your home whose only three settings are terrorist, love me, and phantom.
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