Then I am a unicorn.

I understand how adding a minority for the sake of adding one can lead to all sorts of problematic issues, but I'm really uncomfortable with the assumption that:

Really, Illinois? #AlwaysPays? I'd almost prefer the low, low standard of #NotADick.

Don't care, he still gives me too much anxiety:

This year's secret weapon is my baby niece, a force so powerful it finally put an end to the god-awful tradition of spending Thanksgiving with my husband's extended family. We knew it would be cruel and unusual to submit a tiny, itty-bitty baby to the passive-aggressive hellhole those gatherings are.

If there was ever a need for Luther, it was today.

There are many things I love about the USA, but a part of me keeps wondering if I royally fucked up my hypothetical offspring by moving here. Honestly, I come from a place of extreme privilege in my home country. Here, I sometimes feel like I'm just another brown person whose life is expendable.

So this is anecdotal evidence time, but I do like to share it because I think it's interesting: My mom's divorced friends have all gone on to be in a much better financial situation than their ex-husband's. It didn't matter whether they stopped working when they got married, kept working, had children, didn't have…

I don't understand those people. If they don't read, what made them compelled to write? What makes them think they can do it if they can't compare it to anything? Why do they want to write stories if they have no interest in learning new ones?

I'm a married, but I was at a house party the other day and a guy was being somewhat flirty with me. It was harmless, and I was enjoying the attention...until he mentioned how he thought "Up" was only ok. I lost all interest in talking to him after that.

How have I gone this long without knowing this was an expression???? I want to use it every day now.

Good point! She and her boyfriend have phone sex, send kinky emails, seem to um satisfy themselves through other means. She has XXX dreams, which she does feel guilty about, but that's because they involve Rafael. She doesn't feel guilty about it because the Pope says it's a sin or something.

It's true! Diane Guerrero's character is showing up more and more, and she was in the flashback of Jane's 21st birthday, which implies they've been friends for awhile. Since the set up is a bit complicated, there might not have been a narrative need for a close friend—yet.

I haven't seen Cristela, so I can't really comment on the show.

Thank you!

Mala hierba nunca muere.

So I watched this with all sorts of distractions around me, but was it ever confirmed that Sam actually killed Lila? Sure, all signs point to him, but I don't believe we ever had any slam-dunk proof, did we?

Nikki Grimes! A few of her books do touch on some race issues, but so many of them do not. "Planet Middle School" is a good example. Just a regular Black girl dealing with things like first crushes, bra, period.

As an aspiring Latina YA writer, I've been following the issues of minority representation in children's books closely. It's pretty dire. The good news is that the industry—editors, agents, authors, booksellers, librarians—are really starting to realize it's a huge problem, and I honestly believe that they are trying…

Way back when, I once gave my students the option to write a critical essay on the influence of Greek tragedies on the Harry Potter books. Good times.