When I moved to New York City in the summer of 2008 to attend acting conservatory, Lin Manuel-Miranda’s musical, In the Heights, about Latino-Americans, swept the Tony awards and by fall, Barack Obama had been elected as our country’s first African-American president....
I volunteered for the Cynthia Nixon campaign this summer not because I thought she was the best candidate for governor or a had a good shot at winning, I did it to learn about voters. Who are the people who show up? What are they thinking? What can I learn from them? W...
You will graduate conservatory and go to Rome for your birthday. When you return, you will visit me often. You will watch the grass turn from green to shades of orange and red to white and back to gr...
the erotic is the nurturer or nursemaid of all our deepest knowledge. - audre lorde
Last summer, I was having drinks with some friends from school when they immediately recognized a song I had never heard with a punchy beat over sensual vocals playing overhead at the lo...
It’s curious that 14 years after his Super Bowl performance with pop icon, Janet Jackson, people suddenly remembered that a “malfunction” happened in the form of an accidental (or purposeful?) nipple exposure. Is America experiencing a convenient bout of amnesia b...
On the night of the presidential election, a breakup of mine coincided with Trump’s victory. I couldn’t help but notice the symmetry of two completely annoying things happening simultaneously: a win for a man known for objectifying women and a breakup initiated by...
