a terrible shame, for many reasons. and the job market is so bloated with culture reporters with no places to write www.thewrap.com/paste-layoff...

"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read." - James Baldwin

Marianne Jean-Baptiste: ‘I’d work for Mike Leigh again in a heartbeat – in fact, I’ll pay him!’

sorry i still think it's funny that he's Nora Ephron's son

I’ll say this much: This reads exactly like what it is: people who discovered romance five years ago and decided they had all kinds of amazing new ideas to “fix” it. Connections between books? That feel kind of cozy to the reader? How did no one ever think of that?? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/b...

Romance should evolve, but its so clear when people want the shine and financial benefit of Romance without respecting the genre, its conventions, or the readers. It's disturbing, but not surprising that we've arrived in a place where CRAFT DOESNT MATTER is a thing people believe.

'Instead of “How are our attitudes being reflected in TV and film?” I think the better question is “How is pop culture attempting to shape and mold attitudes?”' -- @ninametz.bsky.social

Since the Goodreads Choice Awards were posted last night, here's a reminder of how white these awards are (& why): bookriot.com/the-unbearab...

Podcasting’s Diversity Problem: 64% of Hosts Are Male, 77% Are White, USC Study Finds www.thewrap.com/usc-study-po...

"The young staffers at Teen Vogue took a magazine that had been cute and commercial before 2016, and wrestled it into the flagship publication of feminist Gen Z politics." Such a nice piece from Sarah Leonard. www.cjr.org/feature/the-...

all i do is tweet about how scared i am about the economy and paying for health insurance lmao

thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

“According to Gaza’s media office, since the ceasefire, Israeli forces have killed nearly a hundred Palestinians in Gaza.” www.newyorker.com/news/essay/t...

Wrote about Condé ending Teen Vogue as we knew it. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/what-we...

They just want us to be in a perpetual cycle of gofundme links instead of raising wages, making housing, healthcare, groceries and everything else affordable.

It’s truly scary how few mainstream publications are willing to publish working class voices and perspectives (let alone leftist ones), and every one we lose is yet another blow to the fragile hope for a better world

I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members. At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

On Teen Vogue: It's an amazing publication full of talented journalists. It offers so much value. It's clear the monied interests in media aren't interested in preserving that value, especially if it threatens the status quo that undergirds their wealth. Capitalism and journalism are enemies.

“there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.”

They had been doing such great work and really changing the game. This is awful.

it does worry me constantly how we're regressing as such a crazy speed

honestly pretty miserable about the Teen Vogue news

I'm seeing a whole lot less outrage for the journalists of color who have been systematically discarded at places like NBC and CBS (and across journalism, really) than the response to Jimmy Kimmel's 5-day suspension.

“By and large, the growing universe of Black celebrities who are at the top of their game has had a muted response to these widening attacks on Black America.” www.salon.com/2025/10/18/t...

www.thewrap.com/nbc-news-div... It's been so infuriatingly obvious.

300,000+ black women are unemployed and without SNAP as an option.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/n... The Slow Death of the New York City Public Bench

The aesthetic of women in Hollywood has quietly reverted to the heroin chic look of the '90s and not enough folks talk about or know how to talk about that in a real way.

“We’ve reached the point in history where the robots are no longer satisfied with taking our jobs; they also want to prevent us from getting new ones.” slate.com/technology/2...

Seriously, my friends, go and get a hobby that isn't perennially online! I cannot tell you how immeasurably better my life is thanks to stuff like reading, crochet, learning languages, ice hockey, and live music.

While writing this piece, what made me sad was seeing how many people of all ages, but especially Gen Z-ers and my fellow millennials, were lamenting that they didn't have any hobbies aside from browsing social media. The algorithm really wants us to be boring as all hell, doesn't it?

Absolutely shameful

really enjoyed this. tackles my issues with the film and unearths a couple others. I wrote in my review that the depiction of this character is racist, and I'm surprised more critics have not mentioned that in their praise of the film! open.substack.com/pub/blackgir...

Wrote about All About Eve for its 75th anniversary this week!

There are so many Diane Keaton performances to remember, but a lot of people haven't seen Reds, and A) my God, see it, it is a masterpiece and B) her performance as Louise Bryant is one of the bravest, toughest, least sympathy-courting pieces of work by an American actress in the last 50 years.

me but about white people tbh

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Just a reminder that Banned Books Week isn’t about selling more copies of 1984. It’s about keeping authors and teachers and librarians safe and making sure all of us have the freedom to read widely. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

For The AV Club, I wrote about how the film industry's response to #MeToo evolved from searing and optimistic to a mealy-mouthed return to the status quo. www.avclub.com/me-too-cinem...

Good for them variety.com/2025/tv/news...

A surprising upside to Taylor Swift's very mid new album: Galvanizing thousands of extremely online Swifties to campaign against the use of generative AI for creative work.

No One Was Helping Black Transgender Youth. So These Parents Stepped In. capitalbnews.org/black-parent...

“Bad Bunny is more American than the first lady!” “Here’s what Chuck Schumer can learn from Bad Bunny!” “Puerto Rico is the U.S!” My kingdom for liberals to stop using Puerto Ricans as a rhetorical device and actually engage with the uncomfortable fact that we are colonized subjects.

this should be concerning thegrio.com/2025/10/02/i...

So many movies and TV shows that are ~made by studios/streamers (aka the big shots)~ never get seen by a sizable audience (the same is true of individual journalism stories from just about any outlet) because it's incredibly hard to cut thru the noise and get stuff in front of people

Sometimes I see posts where people advocate for creative folks or journalists to divest from the larger systems of employment and "start your own!" and I understand the sentiment! But then there's never any discussion of the logistics (which are a *substantial* challenge even for existing entities)

One thing this article doesn't cover is that most books don't "earn out" their advances, true--but that the magic of publisher accounting is a large component of why that's so, and an author not earning out does NOT mean the publisher didn't profit extensively. Far from.