How to Support Independent Creatives While on a Budget During Social Distancing and Lockdowns (and After, Too)
Your independent creative friends need dollars much more than the Netflix C-suite right now.
What Will Happen When — Not If — I Contract Coronavirus
It’s only a matter of time before someone coughs on a one-carriage-short, standing-room-only Expo train during morning rush hour, dooming us all.
Someone Tried to Follow Me Home
He didn’t put his hands on me. If he verbally threatened me, I didn’t hear it on account of my headphones… What good would it do to file a report and start a paper trail?
Stop Telling People to #DeleteFacebook and Instead Hold Mark Zuckerberg Accountable
It will take a lot more than widespread deactivation to dethrone the king of social media.
White Privilege Masks My Ethnic Name in Plain Sight
What if my name was Rei Don? Ray’Donna? La Reida? Do those variations wave a familiar flag, something one can ethnically identify? If you could put a face to those names, would it include my fair skin, blonde hair, and blue eyes?
Let People Enjoy the In-Between of the Holidays
Some people — probably more than some considering we have entire cultural norms around it — need to prepare for changes they want to make in their lives if they want to make them at all. And some who don’t care what specific date they do that are ready to do that without waiting. Both are great approaches as long as individuals feel secure in doing it.
What Five Years in L.A. Have Taught Me
Things I couldn't have learned anywhere else.
This Is What I Mean When I Say Writing Is My Job
"Because I want to keep *this* job, and I am figuratively my own boss in most circumstances, I also grant myself the grace that I wish previous employers would have: to believe in myself and trust that I will get the work done one way or another."
Stuff No One Tells You About Dying Pets: Guilt and Relief
Your pet will always depend on you, fully, and that’s honestly a source of the joy they bring to our lives. Someone who always needs you feels so good to care for. We never stop parenting them; they never leave the nest. Despite their aging and intelligence, dogs, in particular, develop about the same mental capacity as a four-year-old. They truly are always children.
If You Like My Writing, Don’t Tell Me—Tell Everyone Else
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