Since I mostly talk about animation over on my other site, Animation Complex, I forgot to post on here that I started producing a podcast for the animation news site, Cartoon Brew. The second episode launched today! In it, I interviewed the director and animation sup–Tony Cervone and Bill Haller–of the newest US animated feature, […]
There was some recent twitter drama surrounding a woman who said some uncalled for things about some other women that you can read about here. Read it or don’t, it, the article sums up the larger, more culturally pervasive issues regarding the specific people involved. I’m just gonna rant about a small part of that. […]
I am Latina. I’m half Dominican. I’m not Mexican, but every year I bristle a bit at Cinco de Mayo. Mostly at white people, the other half of my biracial identity. When it comes to events like this…it leaves me feeling mixed.
Environmentalism rarely has those big flash-point moments we can use to talk about change. The destruction is a literal slow burn. Forest fires, hurricanes, even oil spills, are often framed as one-off incidents that just can’t be helped, ‘thoughts and prayers’ are vaguely sent (much like other preventable yet recurring catastrophes) and people move on. […]
There are four vaguely similar self-indulgent blog posts sitting in the drafts about the end of 2019 and the start of 2020 and my existential dread as a 30-year-old who fears that growing happiness and stability must be counter-balanced by equally Bad Things. While that sounds like a segue for Covid-19, it isn’t. I may […]