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1 year

Writing is so bleak rn but for @latimes I got to follow young and “unpublishable” Angelenos staging DIY readings on roofs and street corners, creating a new lit scene in their image, and I’ve never been more excited/hopeful for LA letters:

L.A.'s guerrilla readings are invading parking lots and cemeteries

Nearly every night in L.A., literary pop-ups are taking place in unexpected spots like vacant lots, living rooms, rooftops and outside a carnicería.

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@sourhoestarter 😩😩😩

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@MariellaRudi

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MY DOG IS MISSING IN LOS ANGELES 🆘 she was last seen near Kaiser hospital on Venice Blvd. PLEASE RT for my chihuahua mix, Rosie 💔💔💔💔💔

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Wrote about Lean Cuisine and NA and mom for @healthy_ish @bonappetit . Probably the most personal thing I will ever write.

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My magnum opus is here—a deep-fried investigation into Tostitos Hint of Lime, its many class-action lawsuits, and the secrets that still enshroud the “flavored triangles” for @guardian . Your move @Tostitos

Tostitos Hint of Lime has zero lime – but it’s still the perfect chip

A suit claiming false advertising apparently forced Frito-Lay to relabel the packaging for its citrus-free chips

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@MariellaRudi

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OMG she’s home. I still can’t believe it. Can’t begin to express my love and gratitude for everyone who helped us tonight. My heart is discombobulated

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@MariellaRudi

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MY DOG IS MISSING IN LOS ANGELES 🆘 she was last seen near Kaiser hospital on Venice Blvd. PLEASE RT for my chihuahua mix, Rosie 💔💔💔💔💔

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I wrote about being 17 and working at American Apparel in West Hollywood for @LAReviewofBooks

Shopgirl Pride: On Kate Flannery’s “Strip Tees” | Los Angeles Review of Books

Mariella Rudi reviews Kate Flannery’s “Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles.”

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@MariellaRudi

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Full pager today in your Sunday @latimes !!!!!!

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@MariellaRudi

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Writing is so bleak rn but for @latimes I got to follow young and “unpublishable” Angelenos staging DIY readings on roofs and street corners, creating a new lit scene in their image, and I’ve never been more excited/hopeful for LA letters:

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When I was an “American Apparel girl”

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I wrote about a new memoir about working at American Apparel, and the seemingly impossible dream of affordable, made-in-America clothing

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It took 3 people to catch her and the whole neighborhood to keep watch. I’m in awe of humanity for once in my life. God bless dogs and the ones look out for them 🤍

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@MariellaRudi

2 years

Covered @sarahramos 's "Autograph Hound," a photo exhibit of the actor's superfan selfies, for @i_D and talked to @dylanobrien after the show since we kept getting interrupted by, you guessed it, superfan selfies💫

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A global platform for emerging talent, i-D celebrates fashion, culture, individuality and youth.

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My first for @latimes on the iconic TRASHY LINGERIE 💝 a story I was born to write for my hometown paper 🎀👙

How Trashy Lingerie stoked L.A.’s love affair with sexy Halloween costumes

Trashy Lingerie in Hollywood sparked the "sexy Halloween industry" 50 years ago. A new generation of costume shoppers flocks to the members-only store.

www.latimes.com

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@MariellaRudi

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For @NYMag 🫨 I read 3 @VenitaBlackburn books and went to Fresno to talk to the flash fiction master’s debut novel, SoCal dreamlands, grieving our moms, and soooo much more @vulture

Venita Blackburn’s First Novel Runs on Denial

With her book Dead in Long Beach, California, she takes on the kind of grief that can lead to deception.

www.vulture.com

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@MariellaRudi

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Seeing it in print never🗞️gets🗞️old🗞️ please read me in @latimes !!!

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@MariellaRudi

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For @latimes I stumbled on an underground poker ring made up of L.A.’s most and least powerful artists, galleries, and collectors who face-off once a year for Frieze at Jonas Wood’s World Series of Art Poker (also feat: Leo+Tobey, Benny Blanco, Jack Black)

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@MariellaRudi

3 years

“My Dinner With Andre” turns 40 today and I convinced @nytimes to let me write about how it was actually the first recorded podcast in history:

‘My Dinner With André’ at 40: Still Serving Hot Takes (Published 2021)

The film was a feature-length conversation. And it is still stirring up plenty of chatter today.

www.nytimes.com

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@MariellaRudi

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For @latimes I wrote about L.A.’s residential gallery renaissance, it’s 100-year-history, and the coolest exhibits you can find in backyards and laundry rooms:

Looking for L.A.'s art cool kids? They're hosting exhibits in laundry rooms and garages

The most exciting exhibit spaces in L.A. have gone in-house, popping up in unlikely homes, empty pools, laundry rooms and beyond.

www.latimes.com

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@MariellaRudi

4 years

Ya girl's first for @nytimes (!!) writing about the singer/model/sage Mallory Merk. Check her out and show some love🧸🗞

Mallory Merk’s Music Feels Different Now (Published 2020)

The 20-year-old singer and model writes about rehab and addiction, but her lyrics describing isolation have taken on new meaning during the pandemic

www.nytimes.com

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@MariellaRudi

2 years

These photos of himbos past and present will make you feel some type of way 🥵 My @i_D piece on LA photog Doug Inglish’s moving exhibit “Then & Now”

i-D

A global platform for emerging talent, i-D celebrates fashion, culture, individuality and youth.

i-d.co

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@MariellaRudi

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A dream 8-pages in the new @doubleblindmag where I wrote about Richard Fariña and the greatest psychedelic campus novel you’ve never heard of 🍄 special thx to @davidhajdu_ who opened my world to Fariña’s short life with Pynchon, Dylan, and the Baez sisters 🌀

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@MariellaRudi

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For @latimes I stumbled on an underground poker ring made up of L.A.’s most and least powerful artists, galleries, and collectors who face-off once a year for Frieze at Jonas Wood’s World Series of Art Poker (also feat: Leo+Tobey, Benny Blanco, Jack Black)

Inside the secret poker games opening doors in L.A.'s art scene

Poker-playing artists have let the cigar smoke out and opened up the tables to a more diverse, inclusive and female-friendly pool of players.

www.latimes.com

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@MariellaRudi

2 years

@kelsaywhat Like when Nicole kidman’s Lucille Ball says “don’t gaslight me” 🤢

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@MariellaRudi

9 years

I'll tell you one thing I don't need and its Snapchat telling me when someone is typing.

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@MariellaRudi

1 year

For @doubleblindmag I wrote about Richard Fariña, the fabulist and rising folk star who died two days after his debut novel’s release:

The Greatest Psychedelic Novel You've Never Heard Of

Counterculture rebel Richard Fariña died on the cusp of fame. His novel lives on—and it's absurd as hell

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@MariellaRudi

4 years

Anti-Semetite living in his car yelling “f*ck the Jews” in front of First Methodist Church in Santa Monica for the last hour. @SMMirror @SantaMonicaProb

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@MariellaRudi

4 years

My mom died unexpectedly last month. Death is super awkward, and most of the time people don’t know what to say to the bereaved. COVID has rewritten all the rules, maybe most of all for grief. Here’s a list of what people did or said that helped me the most:

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@MariellaRudi

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Struggling to find the point in writing/posting about anything other than mass death, fear, grief and anger. But whatever here’s my latest: a guerilla art residency that’s taken over Ikea Burbank aka LA’s best kept secret coworking space for @latimes

Why so many L.A. creatives meet up at a secret, underground spot: Ikea

Ikea Residency, an unofficial (and unsanctioned) collective of artists, writers and makers in Los Angeles, belongs to a growing creative scene remaking 'third spaces.'

www.latimes.com

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@MGMTease @sourhoestarter Respectfully

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@MariellaRudi

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This was hard to write

After my mom’s death, I sold her clothes on Depop

It’s helped me process my grief — and reconnect with what made her so special.

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@MariellaRudi

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One year ago I published this piece that I’m pretty sure changed my writing life 🩶

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@MariellaRudi

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Writing is so bleak rn but for @latimes I got to follow young and “unpublishable” Angelenos staging DIY readings on roofs and street corners, creating a new lit scene in their image, and I’ve never been more excited/hopeful for LA letters:

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My journalism major/film studies minor staring at me today like: 👁👄👁

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@MariellaRudi

7 years

“You should tweet that” is the highest form of compliment.

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@MariellaRudi

3 years

Keegan and Mama Fong for @bonappetit 💟 I talked to the mom + son duo behind Woon, LA’s fave Chinese comfort food and unwitting activist hub

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@MariellaRudi

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In print 🗞️ today @latimes

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@MariellaRudi

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For @latimes I wrote about L.A.’s residential gallery renaissance, it’s 100-year-history, and the coolest exhibits you can find in backyards and laundry rooms:

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@MariellaRudi

3 years

For @nytimes I spoke to actors Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Haylie Duff & Becca Tobin about moving their pandemic pod to the Texan capital, where home values have hit record-highs, and what that means for keeping Austin weird:

Three Hollywood Stars Recast Their Lives Deep in the Heart of Texas (Published 2021)

As the pandemic upended Tinseltown, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Haylie Duff and Becca Tobin made a pact to abandon Los Angeles and join the mass migration from California to Texas.

www.nytimes.com

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Big day for me and the alien tattoo community

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@MariellaRudi

4 years

Woke up crying for my mom, my forever Valentine. But then I saw my article next to Modern Love ❤️ on Valentine’s Day❣️and would like to think she scammed it for me. As a present. Somehow.

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Who knows if anyone listens to Venice's underground radio station, KTPC 99.1 FM, but I profiled the offbeat channel and it was everything you'd expect from a community fighting to preserve what's left of the bohemian paradise:

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@MariellaRudi

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Eeeeek. My article made it in the Sunday edition of the @nytimes 🥺❣️🗞 Print’s not dead and I guess neither is my journalism degree!

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@MariellaRudi

2 years

Fished out my copy from middle school for @lithub and talked to “Dear Diary” author @lesleyarfin about growing up and writing it all down:

The Hard Won Lessons of Lesley Arfin’s Dear Diary 15 Years Later

As a teenager, walking into American Apparel somehow always felt like an act of transgression. Never mind the sleazy ads and bandeau bras—the brand was selling forbidden fruit to the uninitiated, a…

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@MariellaRudi

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For @wmag I talked to toast of the L.A. art scene Gabriela Ruiz about Valley Excellence, rasquachismo, Latinx/body positive/queer labels, + her maze S̵̙͕̀̃ T̨͈͗̌ͥ R͉̜̎͡͠ Ḛͭ̉̇͟ A̷͙ͭͫ̕ M͉̅ͮ͒ͤ @PSArtMuseum . Read below pls!

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My mother did not emigrate (from San Francisco) for me to be enduring this kind of life (LA weather rn)

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@MariellaRudi

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FOR @WMAG ❕I wrote about AKNA🦂 the Y2K Mexican designer 🇲🇽 behind your fave Euphoria fits 💊 & their new music video 💽 But really…it’s a love story ❤️‍🔥

Meet the ‘Euphoria’ Dressmaker Marrying Mexican Pop Culture and Music

The husband-and-wife team behind AKNA embody the icons they dress—Alexa Demie, Miley Cyrus, and Kim Kardashian among them.

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Teaching my Cuban father about journalism

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For a few years growing up, Anna was like a mother to me. She fed me, housed me, lavished me with phones and money (and some other stuff I’ll save for another time). I’ve never known anyone as generous, or mercurial. My heart hurts for Kenny and the rest of her family ❤️‍🩹

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'Bling Empire' Star Anna Shay Dead at 62

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@MariellaRudi

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Ew don’t ever call it “Cali”

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@MariellaRudi

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If you work in Hollywood now might be a good time to renew your LA Times subscription to support @latguild and the role a free press played this summer of strikes

Carolina A. Miranda

@cmonstah

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@isaac32767 We definitely appreciate anyone not crossing the digital picket lines (aka, not reading or sharing LAT content) but we do not recommend cancellations or another more extreme actions. Sharing a social media post in support of the Guild is always welcome!

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@MariellaRudi

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I’m sorry but this headline formula of “[Big Name] is [passive/boring verb] to [vague cliche girlboss call to action]” really bothers me

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IS ALL OF THIS NECESSARY

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I also had no idea they were behind some of pop culture’s most enduring looks: Legally Blonde, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Austin Powers, Charlie’s Angels, Euphoria, Sopranos, Easy A, Barb Wire, the list goes on…

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3 years

I ❤️ @KCRW so had no choice but to join @RadioChio and talk about the Angeleno migration to Austin. Take a listen 🎙

Why Hollywood celebs are ditching their homes near the Hollywood sign

During the pandemic last year, a trio of actresses who are close friends decided to pack up and leave LA.

www.kcrw.com

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An unguardable hater 💀 god’s work probably

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How Long Gone #497 : @themjeans and I chat about a hoagie pop-up, Ozempic side effects, Daniel Day-Lewis, Ethel & Caroline, dessert wars, $250 honey grown at celebrity's houses, and we figure out a way to deal with the guerilla literature reading pandemic —

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New new for @nytimes on the one and only *•.¸♡ Soto ♡¸.•* 😇🌪✍️🌸💦

A Tattoo Artist Who Sketched Billie Eilish (Published 2021)

Manuela Soto Sosa is the stick-and-poke force behind the Soto Girls bikini gang.

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My man’s different: I took him to Pompeii and he had never heard of the place

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The most depressed you’ve ever been is also when you’re the hottest you will ever be—that’s the law right?

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I’m never going to silver lake on Halloween again

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Was Pac Hills … Euphoria High ?

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Damn this dude is super likable and cool

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Capitol Hill reporter @PabloReports ( @VanityFair and @newrepublic ) live oil painted State of the Union from a balcony in Statuary Hall ... He did two paintings ...

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Hot white women being “challenged” to post cool pics of themselves right now is.............black box behavior

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Testing how a photo of me and my curtain bangs affect the algo lmk!

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For years I’ve wondered about the Cuban apartments of Santa Monica. So I met the landlord, an 86-year-old communist who laughed when I told her that my dad "fled" Cuba at age 15. I still don't know what to think:

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@MariellaRudi

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For @i_d I talked to the man behind Hollywood’s fave photo dump account

i-D

A global platform for emerging talent, i-D celebrates fashion, culture, individuality and youth.

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Jesus I really entered another echelon with my bakes this month 🥵🍒💦

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We've traded one killer for another, shelter-in-place for a curfew, "Stay At Home" for "Black Lives Matter." Because now, people would rather risk COVID-19 than watch another innocent black person die at the hands of law enforcement.

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Been wanting to write about Crenshaw Skate Club for a minute! I caught founder Tobey McIntosh b/w classes at Stanford for @i_D to talk about his new cut-and-sew collab & growing up with the brand he started at 14

i-D

A global platform for emerging talent, i-D celebrates fashion, culture, individuality and youth.

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Thing is man, Donda is a breakup album disguised as a grief album whereas My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is a grief album dressed as a breakup album find me the lie I’ll wait Mary Jane/Peter Parker meme in this podcast I will—

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Past Lives answers the question, what if you actually answred that “I’m in your city” text from your first AIM crush?

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Obsessive fear of death and absurd quest for its cure. “Important” blonde hair. Campy sendup of gender and late capitalism inside a fantasy of a memory. Barbie was the real White Noise adaptation all along.

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Idk who they hurt but not a single soul in Los Angeles will wear a black bathing suit bra and Labucq boots with me to see HAIM tonight???

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So our little website was featured on the @WendyWilliams show 🙈🙊

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4 years

We've just witnessed the end of the coronavirus lockdown and the preamble to the Anti-Racism Movement.

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After 2 weeks of multiple health screens and asking everyone to quarantine, I surprised my closest inner circle with a trip to a private island where we could pretend things were normal just for a brief moment in time.

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Journalism 😍

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For @Dazed photographer Skyler Dahan gave me the scoop on going undercover at CatCon, Ren Faire, Gathering of the Juggalos, and more of America's craziest conventions in his new book "Unconventional"

Inside California’s most unconventional conventions

For his debut book, Unconventional, photographer Skyler Dahan disguised himself as an Area 51 survivor, a drag queen, and a Juggalo to better photograph his subcultural subjects

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POV; you’re having dinner with me at Felix

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I didn’t write much this year, but when I did it was my most challenging and fulfilling work yet. Thank you @healthy_ish for including me in your favorite essays of 2020 💛🥺🍱🌪💊🥀👩‍👧🫑💥

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No water, just Topo Chico hard seltzer exotic pineapple flavor

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I wrote about the hustlers, dreamers and freelancers who came to LA and live with nearly 100 roommates and sleep in pods—bed (or coffin) sized rooms once reserved for tipsy Japanese salarymen—for @werelosangeleno

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@MariellaRudi

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Had a dreamy interview with @SimmonsLaurie about her new film #MyArt , imprinting gender performance, and Hollywood's adoption of artists: