Kamala Harris is running for Barbara Boxer’s Senate seat (“Hmph. I wanted her to be governor” – Jasmine). I find this news to be CHILL and GOOD.
But maybe I should give myself more credit. I didn’t just pitch. I had damn good ideas and I can follow through with writing of equal quality. I pitch about 10 articles a week. Sometimes I pitch at 5 am when an idea hits me or secretly in church when my mom isn’t looking over at me in the midst of an ongoing sermon.
I’m contributing at all these places and it feels good that people are interested in what I have to say. I’m still getting used to it, to be honest.
Right now, I’m in Vermont for my writer’s residency. It’s cold, snowy, and windy, and the weather is having an effect on my body. I feel tired all day but God, am I happy.
Joshunda Sanders on Janet Mock’s new talk show:
Janet Mock, author of Redefining Realness and one of our country’s most visible trans women of color, is now a talk-show host on what MSNBC is calling its “new video experience”: Shift, a series of 14 online-only shows the cable channel launched in December. The shows are meant to appeal to 16-to-34 year-olds, whose TV viewership has been dropping off.
Mock’s show, So Popular, is about popular culture. This is exciting particularly because Mock mentioned to Bitch that pop culture was a big part of her groundbreaking memoir—making the most of her platform as one of the few voices for trans women of color includes getting people into the spotlight who usually are ignored.
Mock describes her mission in the inaugural episode of So Popular perfectly: “Here to cover all things culture, from art and entertainment to literature and anything trending in the zeitgeist. Our goal is to discuss the things you pretend you’re too smart to like, in an effort to expand the idea of what is considered political and worthy of analysis. Every Friday, we will have fun, we will be cheeky, we will mine the nuggets of truth from the cultural topics and experiences that consume our time and I will mess up the teleprompter often.”
OH MAN “the things you pretend you’re too smart to like” ARE MY FAVORITE THINGS
I’m like four choices into this Twitter game and I’m already kind of scared. [clicks with hands over my eyes]
The URL for this includes “compound eyes” and “giving birth to parasite” so if that is going to be a problem for you, go ahead and do yourself a favor and don’t click.
“A full-lipped, cheek-chiseled man in Ancient Greece knew two things – that his beauty was a blessing (a gift of the gods no less) and that his perfect exterior hid an inner perfection. For the Greeks a beautiful body was considered direct evidence of a beautiful mind. They even had a word for it – kaloskagathos – which meant being gorgeous to look at, and hence being a good person.”
100% of articles should be like this. All I ever want to read about is MALE VANITY and LONG-VANISHED STANDARDS OF BEAUTY. (Also, I definitely would have been considered a beauty. My #1 skill is believing that in any period in history I would have been considered extremely desirable for no real reason. I have an enormous amount of faith in my universal appeal, despite the fact that I almost certainly would be burned as a witch for a solid 300 years of European history.)
IT’S THE SECOND AGE OF ULTRON TRAILER
On the one hand: this is a real person’s real life, and divorce is always a sad thing, regardless of the particulars. On the other hand: I love Food Network gossip more than anything in the world and have VERY STRONG OPINIONS about which FN celebrity marriages are staged.
3 Tips for Designing an Invoice That Gets You Paid Promptly
Mmm ACTUALLY I feel like this headline and this article have very little to do with each other (“1. Establish rapport” isn’t something you can actually PUT in an invoice??), but this seems like as good a reason as any to swap freelancer tips in the comments (not just writers! Freelance anybodies!).
