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editor at @thenation . also a writer and filmmaker. writing a book about food. recently made a queer cookbook zine:
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. The return of flash mobs is perhaps the single greatest indicator of a recession
"Karma Chameleon" is taking over the New York Subways!
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is there a name for the Zola/Spring Breakers visual aesthetic?
bikini noir? tampa-core? miami vice modern?
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seems like every 26-34 year old cosmopolitan American is going to japan this year. great news for cdmx
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Yikes. Rapper
@Buddy
made transphobic comments to some trans women last night and asked if they were born men.
Then he still had the nerve to try going to the
@TELFARGLOBAL
party afterwards.
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Hey friends– I've joined
@thenation
as their new Multimedia Editor. I'll be overseeing the magazine's podcasts, videos, documentaries, and photojournalism. Excited to work with the team to continue creating compelling storytelling! :-)
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pop crave will be the last standing news organization
President Biden has signed the debt ceiling bill into law, avoiding the nation's first-ever government default, which would have caused unprecedented economic disaster.
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the bed bugs in question:
Troye Sivan, Hari Nef, Ziwe, Emily Ratajkowski, Charli XCX and Ludwig Hurtado together in Paris.
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i have not written for
@thedrift_mag
but i did play "world class sinner" at the party for their 10th issue and, to me, that is literature
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I am basically doing dry January except for whenever someone asks me to go out for a drink
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I need this on spotify. In the meantime, if you know of other artists who make music like this, please send me your recs
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happy valentines day
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A24 is adapting Ocean Vuong’s ‘On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous’ into a film directed by Bing Liu (Minding the Gap) !!!
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Horchata iced coffee—
Is it an abomination of everyone’s favorite agua fresca, or is it proof that culture is ever-evolving?
I wrote about it for
@nymag
/
@grubstreet
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all i wanted was to refill my metrocard and now I’m being confronted with one of life’s most profound existential quandaries!
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when doesn’t she? 😍
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her vape and my aesop hand balm
why do all y’all’s bisexual boyfriends carry tote bags? what are they carrying?
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For those who are in prison or jail, being a parent can feel impossible.
Thanks to some programs across the country, incarcerated parents are reading bedtime stories to their kids and finding transformation along the way.
I wrote about it for
@nytimes
:
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I spoke with
@kelelam
for
@documentjournal
. We talked about male stoicism, boundary-setting, and the omnipresence of white techno bros in the electronic music scene.
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anne hathaway fans have regained control of the house and senate
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What if public transit were free?
For my latest story, I took a trip to Kansas City to ride the bus, talk to the mayor, and see what a world with fare-free transit might look like.
watch it on
@NBCLX
:
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every morning i wake up and all you people are like wow loved this 3000 word essay that was just published 20 minutes ago
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“The anti-trans panic at the center of the Target controversy says something dark about American politics, but it says something even darker about the American landscape, about the places and ways we choose to live.”
@_pem_pem
in
@thenation
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It's easy to criticize a system. What's harder, & more important, is engaging with the system and working to improve it.
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The Biden administration has formed a task force to find and unite families that were separated under Trump’s immigration policy.
But the trauma of separation lasts long after reunification.
Check out my latest story for
@NBCNews
with
@isagutierreznbc
:
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(sorry for being corny on main but) this has been the best year of my life, and it’s hard to believe that life just keeps getting better. that’s so cool <3
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thank you
@papermagazine
for letting me go on and on about food writing, mutual aid, and the long tradition of queer zine-making. <333
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one thing caucasians don’t understand is that when i say “dude” I’m not saying it in a Bro way. I’m saying it in a Mexican way
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people will really have an MFA in literature and log onto the internet to write stuff like “Omarion is yassifying new york city”
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my friends are always talking about how they want to “move to the country and start a farm” babe you can’t even keep your snake plant alive what makes you think you can irrigate some crops
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starting to realize that if you stop trying to be a really good writer, you will write way more, which will inadvertently make you a much better writer
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i'd love to commission some data journalism for
@thenation
. pitch me at lhurtado
@thenation
.com with your data/interactive stories. bonus points for investigative reporting
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accidentally sent an email to everyone at work. having an hbomax intern moment; dont text
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media twitter right now: congrats on your award nomination! 🥳 and sorry you got laid off 😔
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media is hard! Here's a reminder that my inbox is always open to early-career journalists with industry questions. And I'm always willing to look at reels, resumes, pitches, and cover letters.
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Grey, vacant lots could easily become green, urban gardens. I wrote about why that happens less than it should:
L.A. offers a tax break for urban farming—but no one's taking it
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health tip: anything can be considered a salad if you just try hard enough
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can we call this aesthetic A-Twenty-Florida?
@a24
is there a name for the Zola/Spring Breakers visual aesthetic?
bikini noir? tampa-core? miami vice modern?
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I look forward to exchanging eye contact with (but not speaking to) my twitter mutuals tonight at
@thedrift_mag
issue release party ☻
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spoke with
@thecreativeindp
about my artistic process and how important it is to be a little delusional.
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thinking about the gay template of posting that is simply 1. say a mundane thing and 2. attach a completely irrelevant meme or reaction pic/vid to derogate it. i find it contrived and kind of sad but can also see its negotiation with the issue of gay sincerity
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what if we kissed… at the Lexus December To Remember Sales Event
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i have a new story airing tonight. first in a while since i went full-time freelance. will be fun to see my work on TV again :-)
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If companies can discriminate against sex workers based on invasive data collection, then who will they target next?
Important reporting by
@MistressSnowPhD
for
@thenation
about the implications of
@Airbnb
banning sex workers from the platform.
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How has nobody interviewed couch boy yet? Do I have to do all the important journalism myself? smh
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@_pem_pem
Celebrating Pitbull (mr worldwide) and Austin Powers (international man of mystery) today
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a certain nyc mayoral candidate claims to care about both bodegas and the lgbtq community and yet i have seen no mention of a committment to address the lack of chromatica oreos in nyc bodegas
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I don’t want a ‘dumbphone’ necessarily, because I still need to send a lot of emails. I think what I want to revert to is.. a blackberry
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Last year, Los Angeles sent $1,000 a month to 3,200 people.
@thenation
followed four participants throughout the duration of the program. The takeaways are eye-opening.
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still open to reported story pitches on the situation in puerto rico ––– lhurtado(at)thenation(dot)com
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California's "colonias" are unincorporated communities where some of the state's poorest residents live. They still don't have access to clean water.
(
@thenation
with support from
@econhardship
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just threw up a little bit remembering the time i went on a date with someone and his first question was "so did you google me?" because there's an article about him in the new yorker
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does w*rdle's popularity signify a desire to return to some semblance of monoculture? part of its appeal is that everyone plays the same game, one time a day. limited and forced to wait. like television before streaming, unable to binge, unable to chart our own course of viewing
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We often talk about Latinx migration *to* the U.S. but we rarely discuss migration *within* the states.
I loved this
@nbclatino
feature on the "New Latino Landscape" being formed by modern diaspora.
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"While many are warning that Guatemala is rapidly sinking back into authoritarianism, the reality is that this repression never left."
Happy to have
@m_ines_taracena
in
@thenation
, writing about Guatemala's war on press freedom.
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These days, country music is commonly associated with American nationalism, but the genre couldn’t exist if it weren’t for the transcendence of border lines.
For
@thenation
, I wrote about why country music is actually Mexican music too:
The Department of Homeland Security recruits agents at country festivals for some reason.
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It’s been 4 years since Greta Thunberg skipped school and spearheaded a global youth climate movement.
As Sweden prepares to vote again in another tense election, young activists continue mobilizing in the face of political and environmental crisis.
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the way i'm pursuing literally all three of their respective careers in media:
1. pilot series developed but never picked up
2. hosts a cancelled podcast and first book was just compilation of old articles already written
3. years working on a never-finished documentary film
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Last week, hundreds of thousands of Bolivian activists took to the streets of Santa Cruzto protest the Morales regime.
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my mom is so excited to describe me as an award winning journalist
Congrats to Kevin Urgiles, P.J. Tobia and Ludwig Hurtado of
@NBCNewsNow
for their first place in Online Video Up to 3 Minutes
@k_urgiles
@PJTobia
@ludwighurtado
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LA's street vendors are an overlooked part of its workforce. Most are undocumented, and can't work during this pandemic.
Unlike other small business owners, they can't receive federal aid.
my latest, for
@nbcnews
+
@nbclatino
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ok so the other day i pretended that airplanes in the night sky were like shooting stars. you’ll never believe what happened next. THREAD 1/X
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New York Times article on how to tell if a play is gay:
"Be suspicious of the compulsive slut..."
h/t
@jackmirkinson
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Fares are a big deal.
In Chile, mass protests erupted after students evaded fares in protest of a 4% fare hike.
In NYC, the MTA will spend $249M to combat fare evasion through policing.
But what if public transit were free?
from
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looking to commission a photo illustrator of palestinian descent. if thats you or a friend please dm :)
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the existence of a beyonce house music album implies the existence of a solange techno album
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where is she now! hopefully misusing her power at some stalwart fashion magazine
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just got offered to do a sponsored post on BeReal. nowhere is safe
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What does it mean when a community is the reason for its own economic development? The answer is complicated. I reported on "gentefication" for
@VICE
.
"Gentefication"—a combination of "gentrification" and "gente," the Spanish word for "people"—is happening all over the country.
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"I’ve always imagined you and me sitting out in the sun, hand and hand, free at last. We spoke of all the places we would go if we could. Yet you are gone now."
Despite efforts to erase their existence, queer Palestinians fight to be seen and remembered.
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Every time I have a question about something, there’s a little Gina Rodriguez voice in my head that says “Mama let’s research”
and then i google my question :-)
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you’re in her DMs. i’m in line for the monkeypox vaccine reading Nevada by Imogen Binnie
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i know nobody cares about alice and roman anymore but what if i tweeted "we're far from the shallot now" back then? would it have been funny a tweet? i just came up with this now. let me know what you think
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unfortunately i’m the type of person who updates letterboxd immediately after watching a movie and goodreads immediately after reading a book.
there is no pleasure, only data
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male privilege is me not having to worry that someone will nominate me to post a black and white photo
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In the wake of a housing affordability crisis, can cities afford to keep large swaths of land restricted from apartments and multi-family housing?
I wrote about how Seattle is among the many cities in the US grappling with exclusionary zoning.
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editors will comment "word choice" on an ambitious sentence in a draft and i'm like "yes indeed it was." 😌
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Many Californian farm workers don’t speak English or Spanish—they speak Mixteco.
For
@NBCLatino
, I spoke with some of the folks fighting to keep indigenous Mexican languages alive.
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on the bright side, some of you can finally say you're an "artist in residence"
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On Earth* We Were Briefly Gorgeous**
*payday
**had some money in bank account
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Today marks the 6 year anniversary of the tragedy at Pulse.
While honoring victims and survivors of the shooting, I also encourage us all to be critical of the institutions that capitalize on suffering.
Read this in
@thenation
by
@JustinGarciaFL
.
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excited to announce i was not nominated for an emmy this year
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