fit to be printed 🫨🫨🫨🫨

“What began as a lovesick exercise became an opportunity to reflect on my broader reality,” writes Alex Maroño Porto. “Writing a diary in my second language, I came to learn, makes me an outside observer of my own emotions, providing a clarity that is lost in the proximity of my native tongue.”

Un tema que me obsesiona: ¿cómo cambiamos en las diferentes lenguas que hablamos? ¿Cómo afecta nuestro nivel de familiaridad con una lengua al uso que le damos? @alexmaronho.bsky.social se estrena en el New York Times y yo pienso celebrarlo toda la semana. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/o...

@alexmaronho.bsky.social escribe para el @nytimes.com un artículo de opinión sobre las escrituras de los que vivimos entre lenguas...

wrote an essay about writing in english, my first for @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/o...

I think the role of culture / art to make you uncomfortable and change your mind and change your life is under extreme threat from the tidal wave of entertainment and the late-capitalist condition of artists having to commodify themselves to the hilt to survive at all

“was this not what i wanted? sex was the thing i had craved most all these years, thinking it would fix all my problems, rescue me. of course, this solved nothing. the only difference was that now i was an incel who happened to be having sex.”

last august, i went to agrocuir, a rural queer festival in monterroso, spain. here's a dispatch i wrote about it for @huffpost.com www.huffpost.com/entry/agrocu...

january

so snubbed

mi análisis sobre el futuro del partido demócrata en @elordenmundial.bsky.social elordenmundial.com/partido-demo...

I've seen people dismiss the Pornhub bans, sometimes couching their dismissal in an anti-porn stance. What I don't think they realize is that the people pushing this stuff conflate porn with LGBTQ people and sex education and are part of Project 2025 mashable.com/article/free...

first day at @theatlantic.com

better late than never ✨ here are 25 essays i loved last year — not an exhaustive list, just some of the pieces that stayed with me, like the sound lingering in the air after a bell rings 🧵

new year, new me!!! starting on january 6, i’ll be joining @theatlantic.com as an associate editor. can’t believe i’m going to work for the magazine i used to read constantly before moving to new york.

por qué ver los años nuevos cuando puedes seguir la historia de una neoyorquina y una barcelonesa que quedan cada fin de año en la frontera de sus galicia y asturias natales para prometerse visitas a sus respectivos lugares de residencia que jamás ocurrirán. @alexmaronho.bsky.social

“few tongues exemplify the ever-evolving nature of language better than so-called Standard English, which, after millennia of conquest, conversion, and commerce, has acquired a vocabulary that is roughly seventy per cent non-Germanic” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

"Thirty per cent of Americans read at a level that you would expect from a 10-year-old child” … “Every third person you meet on the street has difficulties reading simple things” Sobre el impacto en la comprensión lectora que tienen las tecnologías y las redes, por @sarahoconnorft.bsky.social

“Callers seem to think their predicament is extraordinary when, of course, most calls are essentially the same. This dynamic crops up in lots of life’s fears and I think it’s just another expression of feeling, briefly, a bit alone in the world.” www.ft.com/content/2a32...

love this initiative t.co/k0VoOXdP05

"queer people the world over have found ways to create spaces where they can survive, and sometimes even thrive, in the unlikeliest contexts" www.thenation.com/article/soci...

what a story www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/m...

qué orgullo haber contribuido a una sección que admiro elpais.com/ideas/2024-1...

The only way to end up in a situation where a C.E.O. of a health-insurance company is reflexively viewed as a dictatorial purveyor of suffering is through a history of socially sanctioned death www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

"Es imposible no tener nostalgia de la juventud propia, de un momento en que podías sufrir mucho o pasarlo muy mal, pero tenías todo el mundo por delante". Llevo tiempo pensando que Alana Portero es una de las mentes más brillantes de este pais. Me reafirmo👇 elpais.com/icon/cultura...

Ha salido mucha gente escandalizada en Twitter (y un poco en Instagram) por un detalle de esta entrevista a Samantha Hudson, el único sacado una entrevista previa, también mía, publicada en 2021. Entonces no pasó nada, ahora es el fin del mundo. Buena medida de la involución en las redes españolas

good day to read this story about willow, a trans teen escaping tennessee www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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¿Por qué nos importa más quien adopta que quien es adoptado? Yo tampoco lo sé pero @begogomezurzaiz.bsky.social se lo preguntó y se ha marcado tremendo reportaje sobre las adopciones de niñas chinas en España (2º país más adoptador después de EE.UU). www.lavanguardia.com/vivo/2024120...

Whenever I choose a book to read, I remember that I can only choose to do so in certain languages...There are multiple political, historical, economic, and social factors that feed into the possibility of books being printed in a given language. www.thedial.world/articles/new...

Seems like people wanna talk about all the locked-up stuff at chain pharmacies and big box stores today. Here’s a gift link to a feature I published a few months ago about why retailers started putting so much stuff behind plexiglass and how badly it’s backfired. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

“It’s never enough,” she said. “People have different ideas of what you should be, of what success is.” www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

a discovery, five years later

a queer on queer

“I’ve done all the work, I know this character,” she says. “I’ve worked on the emotionality of it, the physicality, every possible part of her 🔥🔥🔥 www.dazeddigital.com/film-tv/arti...

I have written about my own experiences of having my gender (cis but non-conforming) policed in bathrooms. The only goal here is humiliation of someone who is different. www.nytimes.com/2023/05/19/o...

En nuestro último episodio, Stranger Danger, hablamos sobre el miedo al otro, Errejón, el terror sexual y Trump. Vuelve Marcos Bartolomé más magnético que nunca con su alegato de las tres cosas que valen la pena en la vida: el cruising, el autostop y el nudismo @bartoleiros.bsky.social

The latest Pew Research report on news content creators paints a damning picture of our skewed information ecosystem. 
I went deep into the 122 page report and broke down the key findings and what they mean www.usermag.co/p/the-majori...

Una adolescente de 16 años cuenta en este artículo que, el día después de las elecciones, todas las chicas llegaron deshechas al instituto y se encontraron a los chicos jugando al Minecraft como si nada. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/16/o...

andrew and i had been doing drugs for different reasons…i took them to psychically rearrange a world i understood to be so deeply corrupted by moral hypocrisy and the profit motive that i sought a chemical window to see outside of it (also for pleasure, for fun)

a piece i wrote before the election about the queer americans who fled this country for @huffpost.bsky.social t.co/5Q2Hsy23Bg