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Christopher Rivas

Christopher Rivas

Flamin’ Hot is The Superhero Movie I Never Knew I Needed

Last week I got to see a screening of the new Eva Longoria film, “Flamin’ Hot.” It’s the origin story of the orange fingered treat everyone…

May 27, 2023

Flamin’ Hot is The Superhero Movie I Never Knew I Needed

May 27, 2023

Christopher Rivas

Have you ever read Albert Camus the Stranger??

It’s about a man named Mersault. Mersault killed a man and he was charged for it. But what ended up turning the judge and jury against him…

Dec 21, 2022

Have you ever read Albert Camus the Stranger??

Dec 21, 2022

Christopher Rivas

Universal Rules Of Storytelling

If the world were clear, story would not exist.

Mar 2, 2022

Universal Rules Of Storytelling

Mar 2, 2022

Christopher Rivas

Universal Rules Of Art

All are striving for connection, beauty, and calm, in a world where there is fear, confusion, ugliness, acts of terror, inequality…

Mar 2, 2022

Universal Rules Of Art

Mar 2, 2022

Christopher Rivas

A DEEP DEEP Commitment to Violence

We have a DEEP rooted commitment to violence — every one of us- it’s inescapable. I mean our country and it’s “wealth” was built on the…

Jul 12, 2020

A DEEP DEEP Commitment to Violence

Jul 12, 2020

Christopher Rivas

How To Do Things With Words

“Proudly, in my own Brown Skin.”

Jul 8, 2020

Photo by Aditya Saxena on Unsplash

Jul 8, 2020

Christopher Rivas

What Happened To DEEP ART?

When the planet is tired, the system rotten, and the soul of the people is in great danger, Art is the work of preservation, friendship…

Jul 6, 2020

What Happened To DEEP ART?

Jul 6, 2020

Christopher Rivas

The Cost of Being Seen

“A people is not a people unless its culture is recognized.” — Hiegel

Jul 6, 2020

The Cost of Being Seen

Jul 6, 2020

Christopher Rivas

I Will Do Anything to Survive. Sacrifice my identity. I’ll do it.

I, like many, have been flooded with the onslaught of the lives of unarmed bodies of color taken by the police. It’s a lot. So much so, I…

Jun 29, 2020

I Will Do Anything to Survive. Sacrifice my identity. I’ll do it.

Jun 29, 2020

Christopher Rivas

“You are a man of color. With thick curly hair. Stay the f@ck home.”

I texted a buddy shortly after the city mandated curfew (btw, my parents never even gave me a curfew), “Yo, bad idea to go to a park to…

Jun 4, 2020

“You are a man of color. With thick curly hair. Stay the f@ck home.”

Jun 4, 2020

Christopher Rivas

Christopher Rivas

I’m a storyteller, actor, essayist (NYT’s Modern Love, SwipeLife), Rothschild fellow, podcast host, film maker, & creator of The Real James Bond Was Dominican!”

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