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 […]
I’ve got a fun existential piece in the draft pile brain-dumping my thoughts about turning thirty and how it simultaneously doesn’t matter and IS EVERYTHING, but this is a much more basic post for the sake of getting something out there as it’s been a minute since I posted. Damn, that sentence was too long. […]
I’ve been wanting to do a series about my personal finance journey. I have a few posts planned that track my relationship with money growing up, my progress thus far, and new endeavors I have planned. For a hot second I wanted to start a separate finance blog called ‘Jen and the Bens’ but someone else has a similar name and it’s hard enough running two sites. But as I’ve gotten older and my interests have expanded, I’ve realized how important it is […]