A week ago, I took ketamine for the first time. I had heard it helps with depression, which I have been struggling with my whole life but within the last three years has been especially difficult. I have credited my depression to many things: my marriage fell apart in 2019…

It has always been true that black and brown voices in the US, in order to be heard by a general audience, have to adjust their messages for white audiences. Even if an artist is being daring, their daring can only go so far. James Baldwin, for instance, never called…

We need real talk about the state of publishing, and where independent and self published writers live within that state. There are a lot of topics within the world of publishing that are not discussed, particularly issues of class and race, but even moreso, the issue of technology, and what…

In the Heights arrived with massive fanfare on social media. The adaptation of Lin Manuel Miranda’s 2009 Broadway hit has been heavily anticipated amongst Latino media, Latinx activists, and Broadway enthusiasts for two years, since the movie’s release was postponed due to the pandemic. …

Context: A Couple days ago, a Facebook friend posted this meme

— Artists are morbid creatures, when the average person sees as a city burning to the ground, they are overcome by the tragedy, while the artist sees the basis for their next masterpiece. An Instagram story posted soon after quarantines started to take effect 17 MARCH TODD: I’m a little…

When I look at your posts I feel disgust that grows the more I scroll down the page and see so many of you on vacation, attending conferences, events, visiting theme parks, the beach, spending the day with family or friends — don’t any of you motherfuckers have jobs? Rent…

I have never wanted to attend a writer’s conference. In fact, I have always felt like I didn’t fit in with the desperate, self-absorbed, insecure, and obnoxious world of writers in general, probably due the sentiments of the first half of this sentence. I started off life in theatre and…