This is one of the main reasons I decided to focus on writing YA novels. I read and enjoy YA yes, but I also read and enjoy literary and commercial fiction, as well as non-fiction. But after spending 5 years getting multiple non-fiction pieces published online and still failing to find an agent or publisher for my…

My name was something like “raging rat in a cage” Pumpkins dude... Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness double album... *sigh*

Ohhhhhhhhhhkay. So, I can totally get behind careful consideration of the ethics of the food and products we consume. I am all about this. But I am not a vegetarian, and I am not a vegetarian, in part, because of ethical concerns. 1) Our entire food system is fucked up. A lot of human labor is involved in the…

Agreed times a billion. Have you seen this!?

Because I am going to keep saying it until this bullshit stops:

Exactly. I’ve been divorced for 5 years now, and people still ask me when I’m getting married again. Oh fuck that nope. I’m not bitter, I enjoy relationships with men, I just don’t want to be married. I have different life goals now. Sometimes my life goals include lying around in my pajamas alone all day.

Yeah, problem is when the idolising and fawning comes first then the backlash is natural. It's perfectly acceptable to think some of her gender jokes are brilliant, and that some of her stand up is racist. Problem is the over praise that White people get in the media and then the super defensiveness to any critique.

I take the admiration and the backlash with a massive grain of salt. Roxanne Gay’s Bad Feminist is the first and final word on how we treat public women, particularly women who publicly identify as feminist. So. Schumer was never my great hope and she’s not my great disappointment. She sure as hell isn’t perfect and I…

My awesome Women Studies professor in college, when faced with the abortion question, just smiled at the token troll and said “If you want there to be fewer pregnancy terminations, then you should advocate for free childcare and work towards reducing the stigma on un-wed mothers.” mic drop. Love you, Prof. Roy!

As someone who has actually lived (worked, paid taxes, learned language, earned pension, etc) in almost a dozen countries, I beg of you not to compare your year abroad with my experiences. I empathise that it was perhaps challenging for you, but this is like telling George Clooney you know what stardom is like because…

We try to travel internationally at least once a year at this point but I don’t generally talk about my experiences unless asked directly and I don’t share anything on social media. Most people don’t seem to be very interested in it and the people who are will bring it up. I think people make a lot of incorrect…

I hesitate to pipe up because I live in Europe and it seems that the American way to view travel, as evidenced in this post and some of the comments, is different... Basically my friends and I all travel because we like it. We travel together and alone; and we travel often. We talk about our trips, check-in and post…

Adding this because this really bugged me: If your friends are “alienated” by you posting pictures of your travels, that says a lot more about the friends than it does about the person posting them. For heaven’s sake, the majority of my friends proudly post baby picture after baby picture after baby picture, or travel…

Restaurant bills? Hotel bills? Do they have to be in your name? You could generate a bill in a shared apartment after a month, but you can’t say “I lived in New York city for a month”. I stick by my tourist visa statement. There are so many other verbs! Stayed, visited, studied, traveled, or my personal favorite…

Can I throw in an addendum that says you can’t say you “lived”somewhere for 3 months? I don’t know what the cut off should be, but if you were on a tourist visa you probably didn’t live there. I have heard people say they “lived” in Spain for 3 weeks! 3 weeks! You were on vacation! Just say you went on vacation! Ok,…

Saying that women make 77% is literally forgetting that all non-white people exist. It was a great way to argue for feminist action, in the 1950s, when we only cared about white-people-wages. Now, it’s an embarrassing artifact of a type feminism we should now see as myopic. The statistic is presented with the flavor of…

My heart stops beating when I get a phone call. Like, haven't I let it be known I loathe talking on the phone?

I agree. The text needs polishing. Maybe a native speaker of Spanish who knows how to write correctly in Spanish should edit it.

Just as native speakers of English still manage to write lots of errors, so do native Spanish speakers. A trained translator is not the same as a native speaker. Nice snark though.

Being a native speaker doesn’t mean that person is formally educated in the Spanish language.