Sep 22, 2020Member-onlyAt the Point to Give Life“No one leaves home unless / Home is the mouth of a shark…/You have to understand,/ That no one puts their children in a boat/ Unless the water is safer than the land… — “Home”, Warsan Shire For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the…Reproductive Justice7 min readReproductive Justice7 min read
Aug 24, 2020Member-onlyThe Bad News: 2020 is Just the BeginningThe year 2020 seemed to start off marked by misfortune — a freak helicopter accident killed Kobe Bryant, his daughter, and four others, knocking the collective wind out of the nation, Los Angeles, especially. An impeached president narrowly avoided removal after a Senate vote was crudely split down party lines…Green New Deal6 min readGreen New Deal6 min read
Jun 19, 2020Member-onlyProtesters Don’t Owe You Peace“If we don’t have it, you aint gonna have it either, ‘cause we gonna tear it up…I don’t see why they don’t understand that. This flag is drenched in our blood — they know what they’ve done to us…” — Fannie Lou Hamer “Lock us behind gates, but can’t tame…Juneteenth4 min readJuneteenth4 min read
Apr 22, 2020Member-onlyEnough is Enough“Omulu sent the black pox in the city. But the rich people up above got vaccinated and the smallpox descended to the poor people’s city and made people sick, laid black people full of sores onto their beds. Then the men from public health came, put the sick people into…Politics12 min readPolitics12 min read
Feb 24, 2020Member-onlyAll Billionaires are Morally Unfit to Be President“I object to people who are rich in politics. I don’t think they should be allowed to be in politics. It is bad that rich people are in politics, it is bad for everybody but rich people. Whenever people say, “Oh, he earned his money himself,” I always say the…Billionaires6 min readBillionaires6 min read
Jan 7, 2020Member-onlyI Fought A Parking Ticket & Won: On Tickets & TaxationThis fall I purchased my first car. It was a gorgeous, rugged, perfectly Californian little truck, and sadly, a piece of shit. After a handful of late-summer drives up the PCH to and from Malibu, it was revealed to be wrought with mechanical issues and constantly pegged with parking tickets…Economics8 min readEconomics8 min read
Published inThe Startup·Nov 4, 2019Member-onlyPaid Parental Leave Would Change Society: We Just Don’t Want It ToEvery year, the World Economic Forum produces their Global Gender Gap Report, which analyzes and ranks 149 countries on the basis of four dimensions critical to equality: economic participation and opportunity (earned-income and labor-force rates, gender ratios in professional work), educational attainment, health and survival and political empowerment. A “global…Parenting4 min readParenting4 min read
Oct 14, 2019Member-onlySobre La Sujeto de las MujeresHasta el 21 de octubre, una selección de 450 obras de más de 200 artistas se exhibieron en el Museo de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), desde el siglo XVI hasta nuestros días, en una exposición llamada: “Afroatlantic Histories”. La exposición se centra en la experiencia de la diáspora africana…Arte Negra7 min readArte Negra7 min read
Sep 27, 2019Member-onlyDead on the Vine: Who Profits from the Image of Drugs & Violence?When I was young I didn’t know much about drugs save for what I saw. Cute boys sold weed. People who did crack stole the change from your car and danced in the street. I applied the word “crackhead” only in the most literal sense. I was in middle school…Music13 min readMusic13 min read
Published inZORA·Aug 27, 2019Member-onlyWe Visited a National Park and a Ranger Brought Up LynchingWhat should have been a carefree road trip turned ugly in an instant — While gearing up for my college graduation, my friends and I were struck with the idea of taking the Great American Road Trip. For the months prior, we began a planning spreadsheet. We would begin in Arizona and from there, cover much of the American West: Nevada, California, Oregon, Washington…Travel7 min readTravel7 min read
