Irene Vázquez 🍉

Hello new followers! If you want to read TAKE ME TO THE WATER (as seen on Hanif’s nighstand) you can find the PDF here! bloofbooks.com/wp-content/upl…

ai can’t write good because it’s designed to write pleasantly average sentences with all the right words in the right order and imho good writing requires u to strategically deploy a word that is wrong and maybe even evil

@miri_yam_ Oxford American!

Featured story, by @capaciousmood: Pan-African activist Audley “Queen Mother” Moore's life has been boiled down to a few dramatic photos and footnotes. Now a UT-Austin historian brings us the full story of this vital political theorist. texasobserver.org/queen-mother-r…

@dancingofpens I had the exact same reaction & it really took me out of the moment. I felt a bit more sympathetic towards it when I learned it was something he borrowed from Maya Rudolph's childhood (when those resources were less available) bc now... google is free

This doesn’t break my heart tbh I’m like how is this girl grown and you could never look up a YouTube video to learn how to do her hair.

The triumphant return of @capaciousmood to the pages of the Texas Observer: texasobserver.org/queen-mother-r…

@ematearecee mood

extreme @NifMuhammad hours

public service announcement: junglepussy has been making music under the name “junglepussy” for over a decade. she’s playing her own rap persona in ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. “this pussy don’t pop for you” is something she’s been saying for years. PTA didn’t write that!

too many people writing about one battle after another have never listened to a single teyana taylor or junglepussy album and it shows

Napheesa what are you doing in Jersey City

Beautiful women named Severe Thunderstorm Warning are blowing up my phone

Cool to see GQ editor Will Welch get styled by Andre 3000. This style is called a pagoda shoulder (or "spalla insellata" in Italy bc of its resemblance to a horse saddle). It's the hardest style to make bc of the amount of work that goes into shaping the canvas. IG willwelch

@elle_oftheball @AJWhiteAuthor happy to send you an ARC if you'd like!

one of my books was included in a list of transfem reads b/c it includes a trans girl love interest, which. hmm. so I’m gonna overcorrect for a moment and just recommend this handful of books real quick

@elle_oftheball @AJWhiteAuthor (Victoria's editor chiming in here to share a link to directly donate a copy to trans kids in DC!): eastcitybookshop.com/gift-registry/…

@brittanyroger_ congrats Brittany!!!

I don’t have enough words to articulate how honored and excited I am to be named the Betty Berzon Emerging Writer for this year!! 🥹🥹😭😭🤗🤗

being a journalist is committing to a life always feeling like you have homework due