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I’m a huge fan of board games. I still have my original Guess Who?, Monopoly, and Clue in my garage, though I woefully am unsure of what happened to my Ask Zandar. So when I saw this video about a new board game that’s meant to piss off little girls, I was, well, curious. Presenting,…
Last night, Pearl Jam returned to South Florida (at the BB&T Center in Sunrise), twenty years since they’d played Broward County, and twenty-two since their first Miami performance (a show that included personal favorites like “Once,” and closed out with the ever-so-crowd-pleasing cover of Neil Young’s “Rockin’ In The Free World”). It was the kick off to their 2016…
This past weekend, I attended a Feminist Zine Making Workshop And Pizza Party at HistoryMiami, our local historical museum (which I worked for once upon a time–they are awesome and you should totally visit, FYI). The workshop was part of EXILE Book’s Artist In Residence partnership with the museum. I made plans with my friend Jenny…
I think it’s safe to say that most folks don’t see abortion as this wonderful experience they’re going to go and enjoy. For many of us, it’s an incredibly difficult and complex issue, and a choice that is never made lightly. And the reasons behind wanting or needing an abortion are as varied as the…
Insomina’s got the best of me tonight. I haven’t written a very candid blog post in a while (never on this blog, actually), so let’s see how this goes. Things have been pretty rough this past month. It more or less started at the start of the month, when one of my very best friend’s…
It’s Twitter’s 10th anniversary! Or tweeteversary! Birthtweet? Tweetbirth? Whatever, the point is, they’ve been around for 10 whole years. That’s mindboggling to me. Feels like only yesterday I was traipsing around AOL chat rooms looking for other friends who shared my love of Marilyn Manson (my screen name then was zim96zum, btw). Anyway, thought I’d…
This morning I woke up to this story on my feed about Saturday Night Live covering the topic of feminism. The sketch, which featured Ariana Grande and most if not all the women on SNL, was about how the group wanted to write a feminist song but how it got a bit problematic on the…
After watching last week’s Oscars, I decided to look into how many of my fellow Latinas have actually won the supposedly prestigious award. According to Wikipedia, NO LATINAS HAVE EVER WON FOR BEST ACTRESS. None. Zero. Zip. Do you hear me, chavalas? That means any of us right now could technically start acting tomorrow and…
NOTE: I’d like to preface this by stating that I have yet to read Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, so I’m unsure of how much the film adaptation veers from the original story. Also, there WILL be spoilers. You’ve been warned. Anna Karenina is the tragic story of what happens when a woman is not allowed…
Earlier this year, we took a little day trip to Biscayne National Park in Homestead. The park is just a few minutes from our house and instead of being bummed about the lack of cold weather in Miami (it was in the upper 70s/low 80s the first weekend of January), we decided to embrace our…