*Mild spoilers ahead* “Olga/ dies dreaming of a five-dollar raise…” is a line from Pedro Pietri’s poem, Puerto Rican Obituary, and is the inspiration for Xochitl Gonzalez’s bestseller, Olga Dies Dreaming. The book follows Olga and Prieto, Brooklynites of Puerto-Rican descent as they try to understand who they are, what liberation means, and engage in …
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“Small business is the backbone of the economy.” If I had a dollar for the number of times I’ve heard this parroted from the mouths of politicians I’d be channeling my inner Margot Robbie in the Big Short, sitting in a bubble bath, with a glass of champagne telling you about how my small business …
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For as long as I remember, self-worth has been an intangible and elusive thing. The experience of being a woman is that your self-worth lies in some hidden, secret place and you spend your life like Indiana fricking Jones, looking for it. We throw spaghetti at the wall, hoping something will stick, the treasure map …
In second grade I came home from school with an A on a math test. Math was a subject I struggled with as a young child, needing extra help and even tutoring in the subject from an early age. What can I say, my brain is just more wired towards words I guess? So, getting …
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On Sunday night, time stood still for just a moment as Michaela Coel gathered herself to collect her Emmy for limited series writing. The following moments were filled with the most powerful words of the evening (girl just won an Emmy for her writing after all) and a message to her audience outside of the …
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The policing and critique of influential women’s sartorial choices to discredit them has long been a favorite activity of conservative media. The 2021 Met Gala serves as perfect fodder, because democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, better known as AOC, scored an invite. AOC attended the glitzy event in a white, form-fitting sheath dress with the words …
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