Writer and filmmaker. Author of four books, including FRIDAY I'M IN LOVE and THE FORGOTTEN SUMMER OF SENECA (Abrams 2025). She/her. Repped by
@beth_phelan
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These random boys added me to a group chat for people named Garrett and I get to stay bc they’re being very kind and it’s probably the best thing that’s happened all day
imagine you're in class and a girl starts reading a poem clearly directed at another guy in your class and she starts crying and they're having intense eye contact and you're just sitting there like..... anyways...
Stop doing this 2020. Stop acting like white women don't have the privilege of being white. Stop acting like men of color winning awards isn't a big deal. Stop acting like men of color are the same as white men, because they are not. Just stop with all of it.
The Academy overlooks Greta Gerwig (again!) as Taika Waititi wins Best Adapted Screenplay.
Why Gerwig's stunning
#LittleWomen
adaptation deserved an Oscar:
thinking about how the first To All the Boys movie was directed by a woman and the second two are directed by men; thinking about how, after the industry is surprised by a woman's film doing well, they react by handing the reins to a man (Twilight, Fifty Shades, etc)
I don't wanna wax poetic about a white dude, but Brad Pitt has produced BEALE STREET, SELMA, 12 YEARS A SLAVE, MOONLIGHT, and will be producing THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. You never see him out bragging about what an amazing ALLY he is. He just champions amazing black stories.
i will delete this later but I guess it’s wild to see so many people talk about like teen breakups and heartbreaks involved bc many of my black girl friends and I did not have these experiences in high school — we were not asked out or invited to prom
Say Her Name was started because Black women are left out of conversations about police brutality and act like Black men are the only ones killed by cops. So to see people saying “Say His Name” or “Say Their Names” is even more erasure of Black women, especially trans women.
well so someone used my picture in this tiktok that went viral and all of my friends reported it because they're really nice but this is kind of the cruelest thing that has happened to me ever (and i have a dead dad!)
This reminds me of that quote from Priscilla Presley, “He taught me everything: how to dress, how to walk, how to apply makeup and wear my hair, how to behave, how to return love- his way.”
I didn’t feel powerful at 20 or 23 or even 30, didn’t really start to come into my own until 35 and only getting better from there. aging is a blessing and a privilege— what a gift to still be here
again, "Say Her Name" was created because Black women tend to be left out of conversations about police brutality, especially Black trans women, so to use "Say His Name" erases the intention behind the phrase and de-centers Black women once more!
it's so so so so crazy to have young people in this hell of a world, tell them that this is going to be -- no money, no jobs, you can't pay rent, and we're going to use your tax money for genocide -- and then punish them when they say we don't want this life
also am I allowed to say that it feels extremely racist to assume that Black people, as an entire group, hate Jewish people? This is not the first time I've seen a white woman imply that Black people are antisemitic, like, by default, and it's so so ugly.
also i'm irritated that we're just letting Awkwafina go along and talk in her "normal" voice now that she's won awards and prestige and can shed her weird Blaccent and acting style without saying anything
update: they are going to duel to the death for my hand so one will earn the honor of becoming Garrett Garrett (the weirdest but most welcome turn of events)
this is such a mind fuck. imagine everyone laughing and you go to look at what they're laughing about and it's you. over a hundred thousand people. where the fuck did you even get my picture. what a freak! what a FREAK.
Most of my friends are brown or dark skinned, we are fat... we have lots of discussions on desirability and how distanced we feel from a lot of experiences everyone seems to have had. And this is one of them
Maude Apatow to make her directorial debut with ‘POETIC LICENSE’ from a script written by Raffi Donatich.
It follows two best friends, Sam and Ari, who start to unravel as they compete for the affection of Liz, the middle-aged mom auditing their college poetry workshop.
did we ever talk about the time I got to meet Lucy Liu because of a film program I did in high school and we talked about how I want to have kids but also want to be in a demanding field and she was like, “Well, who says you can’t do it your way, Camryn?”
“You begin to wonder what might have been lost in translation all these years, what the unrestrained creativity of animation might have rendered... and whether superhero movies are outright better-suited for the medium they seemingly outgrew.”
but the thing is! no one has ever swiped on me on dating apps! and i guess I now know it's because over a hundred thousand people agree that I'm ugly! so that's great! i hope the person who posted this and all the people who laughed are having a great time
unpopular opinion but hamilton is so 2015 and i'm now very uncomfortable by the founding fathers rapping and being portrayed as Black or cool when many of them owned slaves
@LaNoireDe
@kassianeckles
what???? the original lyric comes from the song Supertramp by Breakfast in America so i started screeching at the idea of them writing this about Katy Perry in like the 70s
In 2014, I read an interview where
@ava
discussed directed SELMA. She was the first black woman director I'd ever seen. I didn't even think about black women directing movies. This fall, I'll be attending film school at NYU. Representation matters.
@JohnsonHildy
@niais
Omg can we please stop blaming Gen Z? It's a bunch of white kids who don't care about anyone else. It's definitely not the Gen Z people I know who are stressed about school and tuition and where they're going to go after schools have kicked them out.
Maybe this is silly but there was racism in the discord chat and the person was swiftly removed by the Garrett mods and... I didn’t have to say anything. I thought I would? So this is basic decency but I’m still impressed
I hate seeing white people go to protests and emphasize how “peaceful” they are. It’s like, “these Blacks knew how to behave, unlike the other ones.” If you’re not Black, don’t comment on how Black people are fighting against white supremacy.
Will never forget telling a bunch of students that my favorite old movie was Roman Holiday, getting blank stares, saying “it’s basically the Lizzie McGuire movie” and everyone getting excited
Can't believe I paid
@nyuniversity
30,000 dollars for this semester only to be told there aren't going to be any refunds because I'm still "learning" and professors are still "teaching," even though I'm in the film school and film cannot be taught without equipment or production.
i like her music but it's so weird that people act like taylor swift is a plucky young girl who came from nothing and is still struggling to be a serious artist and not a white millionaire businesswoman with 11 grammys
I really need people to stop equating white women to people of color. They do not face the same challenges at all. You can't compare Greta to Taika the same way you'd compare her to, say, Todd Philips. You can't. I'm tired of this.
Anyway my book actually has a Black person on the cover (and was shot by a Black photographer) and is actually about a Black girl so maybe we can buy that this Black History Month
#GoldenGlobes
winner Phoebe Waller-Bridge's advice for aspiring writers: "Find one friend that you love and you care about and write it for that person to make that person laugh, and make that person cry."
I don't mean to be disrespectful, people are saying so many lovely things, but I also just have to say he was really, really hot. Shout out to Mr. Weathers for that.
my professor was saying it's problematic to call Shakespeare characters queer because our concept of queerness didn't exist when the plays were written which i get but just... don't see the big deal with thinking Antonio and Sebastian are in love
@ all the Garretts asking to join: Twitter won’t let anyone add more people! But we started a discord for Garretts ONLY (it has to be spelled correctly or... something bad will happen)
my weird take is that filmmaking should be fun and i think there's something delightful about watching a movie and being able to tell that everyone enjoyed themselves
it's so depressing to think about how it's becoming more and more impossible to make a living in arts or media and how those who can't come from money can't work in this industries
I feel like we need a Queer Eye with a bunch of queer women because there's not a lot of visibility for women in the queer community
like
im queer and I don't know anything about queer women
recently it's gotten better -- Jennifer Lee did both Frozen 1 and 2, Patty Jenkins with Wonder Woman, Captain Marvel had women for both films... weird that those are all Disney
i'm sorry, i'm still stuck on the fact that Gina Rodriguez's excuse for saying nigga is "i was singing the song, Lauryn Hill raised me" when the line from the song is "Believe me, fronting niggas give me heebie-jeebies" and she just said "niggas give me heebie-jeebies"
Like this whole "black women saved us" thing is TRUE, but bLACK WOMEN SHOULD NOT HAVE TO SAVE YOU. BLACK WOMEN CANNOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ENTIRE ELECTIONS. BLACK WOMEN ARE NOT MULES.
Adaptations of five Emily Henry books are in the works:
• Funny Story - film adaptation
• Beach Read - film adaptation
• Book Lovers - film adaptation
• Happy Place - series adaptation
• People We Meet On Vacation - film adaptation
Give me coming of age movies where black girls get to be horrible and funny like in LADY BIRD or where they get to be weird and funny like in BOOKSMART or where they get to be cute and fall in love like in TO ALL THE BOYS I'VE LOVED BEFORE