Welcome to the What I Like About Me Blog Tour! To celebrate the US release of What I Like About Me by Jenna Guillaume on April 1st, blogs across the web are featuring exclusive original content from Jenna, as well as 10…
YA In Space! Alexandra Monir Guest Post
If I had to pick a favorite subgenre within YA books, it would easily be “teens in space.” I mean, who among us didn’t dream of escaping to Mars or Jupiter after a particularly rough day at school? (Okay, maybe…
The Remarkable Act of Not Giving a F*ck
For the purposes of this editorial, I want to make clear the act of not giving a f*ck versus apathy. Apathy is total disinterest, defined by a lack of enthusiasm or concern. When you’re apathetic about something you don’t care.…
Hey Hollywood, WOC Are Not Interchangeable
The Year of our Lord 2019 is almost over, and apparently, this still needs to be said. Women of color are not interchangeable. Now, of course, the problem of bad representation is big, and there are many facets to it.…
5 Lessons Mister Rogers Taught Me About Life
With A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood coming out this week, I have been thinking a lot about Mister Rogers. I know that as a grown adult that kind of sounds ridiculous. Why? Because it was so long ago. But…
What Makes ‘New Amsterdam’s’ DamFam So Great
Every aspect of New Amsterdam is only getting better and better, particularly the DamFam in season two of the NBC medical drama. Social media has affectionately dubbed the cast, crew, and fanbase of the show the “DamFam” as a sign…
Guest Post: Kate Williams, Author of ‘The Babysitters Coven’
In my first novel, The Babysitters Coven, my narrator, Esme Pearl, and her best friend Janis Jackson, are uber-fangirls. Deeply entrenched in music, movies, fashion and art, they drop references to everything from 19th-century French poets to 1970s horror flicks…
How to Train Your Patronus – Protecting Your Spheres
Dementors first premiered in J.K Rowling’s 1999 release of the Prisoner of Azkaban. They are soulless beings who feed on the happiness of others, creating a bleak despair that is incapacitating, which is why they are used to guard the…
Supergirl’s Misguided Idea of Friendship
For a show that prides itself on depicting strong and empowering messages for its audience, Supergirl has a misguided idea of friendship. At least when it comes to Kara and Lena. You can make yourself believe anything if you try hard enough.…
Practice Self-Care: Stop Watching that Show that Makes you Angry
Practice self-care: stop watching that show that’s making you angry, you know, the one that disappointed you. You’ll be better off for it.
5 Things We Want To See In Season 10 Of ‘Blue Bloods’
I admit that I started watching Blue Bloods because of Donnie Wahlberg. Look, I love New Kids on the Block and I support most of the shit that they do. The other reason I watch? Will Estes was my first…
9 Ways To Get Your Basic Bitch On For Fall
Oh, every year I make fun of how basic I truly am, but I have to embrace it. I am the epitomy of basic and we’re heading into fall, which is every basic bitch’s favorite season. It’s the time of…
Why is “Fangirl” a Dirty Word?
Have you ever been a fan? Have you ever loved a show, movie or a book so much that you just couldn’t wait to find out what happens? Yes? Okay, so why is the term “Fangirl” (or “Fanboy”, I don’t…
Movies We Can Watch on an Endless Loop
That part of your mattress that has become a mold in the very shape of your body, your stretched out yoga pants or university sweats, your go to snack-you know, the life comforts that call your name? What’s a girl…
Give It A Chance: Bumblebee (2018)
Look, I get it. There is a Transformers fatigue in the air. Even as someone who loved the trilogy with Shia LaBeouf, I couldn’t be bothered to go see the fourth and fifth movies starring Mark Wahlberg. I’ll get around…
Our Top Quotes from 2018
Have you watched a TV show, or a movie and all the sudden found yourself stopping at a quote and going …yes! Yes! That. Have quotes touched you so deep that you made them your mantra, that’s how much you…
Let’s Make Some Old White People Angry: Vote
The truth of the matter is that the world has always been cruel, unkind to people of color, immigrants, those with disabilities, people in the LGBTQIA community, and women, and willing to crush anyone whose voice is not backed by…
Hope in the Age of Nilhilism
You fight, and you fight, and you crawl through hate, and you shake, and you cry, and you do everything in your power to shine a light, and then those who only care for money, for pain, for the suffering…
The Curious Case of Seth Rogen Being Hot As Hell in ‘Like, Father’
I, a Latinx queer woman, of sound mind and body, have a confession to make. It’s something dark and lustful, something I never expected would happen after Knocked Up & Pineapple Express. I, have the hots for Seth Rogen. Look,…
Shipper ≠ Bad Fan
Every once in a while I find myself writing things that I feel are self-explanatory. Of course, shipper does not equal bad fan. Of course shippers have as much of a right to enjoy what they enjoy as people who…
