Award-winning journalist. Tropical goth. Editor, De Los @latimes. You can also read me in @vogue @rollingstone @ELLEmagazine. 🇧🇿🇨🇺🏳️🌈
Los Angeles, CA
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Hilariously enough, during the week of mean music critics discourse, I shared a Latin music hot take on this week’s episode of the De Los podcast:
The nostalgia for our parents’/grandparents’ music… is getting a lil boring, fam 🥱 Let’s tell a new story!
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The White House has revamped its website to defend the destruction of the East Wing. And they've done it exactly the way you'd expect
whitehouse.gov/about-the-whi…
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The unsinkable @sanbenito stopped by Rolling Stone today to share some songs from his new album 💜 I won’t spoil anything but there are some epic surprises in store 😈
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This is crazy, but I used to draw all the time. I went to school for illustration, I even made a living out of it, until I got sucked into what turned out to be a very toxic relationship.
Tonight I picked up some crayons at Marco Polo and drew my first drawing in 3 years.
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I had to take on dog walking gigs to afford my first two years as a full-time employee at Rolling Stone. Unionize.
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You can donate to Nex's family here 💔 They need all the help they can get
gofundme.com/f/dagny-benedic…
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Here’s a list of abortion funds by state:
docs.google.com/document/d/1…
THE SUPREME COURT HAS OVERTURNED ROE V. WADE, ELIMINATING THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO ABORTION.
supremecourt.gov/opinions/21…
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Ricky Martin describes him as a queer icon; I describe him as an agent of chaos. Bad Bunny is on the June cover of Rolling Stone.
rollingstone.com/music/music…
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“I belong to the world. The world is so connected. Why would I put a blindfold over my eyes?”
This feels like a very natural progression for her.
🚨🚨 ROSALÍA revealed in an interview that she sang in 13 different LANGUAGES on her new album LUX. Tomorrow, her first interview directly discussing the album will be released on the New York Times podcast on YouTube.
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Bad Bunny calling for a general strike in Puerto Rico is the energy I need from pop stars in the States rn
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There’s a GoFundMe for Antonio here: gofundme.com/f/gp8nc-antonio…
A paleta man (ice cream man) is recovering after he was beaten until he lost consciousness.
Antonio, 64, was packing up his ice cream cart for the day when 3-4 suspects attacked him. They made off with his earnings for the day, $65.
My story @DenverChannel10 pm
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Counter to the historical revisionism by jaded millennials: It was NOT considered cool to listen to Avril, Paramore, or really any women in rock during the 2000s! Karen O would get crucified on the boards. I got hate mail for writing about Evanescence just a few years ago.
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Good on Ayo for reminding people that actors are coworkers and that keeping a healthy work relationship means not indulging this kind of bullshit
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If a girl can get a little mystical: 2025 is a 9 year, which represents a time for ending habits and completing cycles. The people you date in a 9 year may prompt a lesson you need to learn.
Singles can have better luck in 2026 (1 year)… and more so in 2027 (2 year)!
Dating this year has felt like pulling teeth. I really can’t believe how unnecessarily irritating it’s been.
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Hate being forced to spend at least one (1) of my Hot Girl Years in quarantine and not at the goth clubs 😑
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They’re trying to make an example of LA but Angelenos aren’t gonna take it. Immigrants are the life blood of the city. ICE are the invaders.
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Five years ago this week 🥲 I became the first Latina to write a Rolling Stone cover story.
Ricky Martin describes him as a queer icon; I describe him as an agent of chaos. Bad Bunny is on the June cover of Rolling Stone.
rollingstone.com/music/music…
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Hey Twitter! I want to bring your attention to the Trans Santa project, a campaign to send holiday gifts to trans kids who are homeless, in foster care, or otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford gifts. Click the link below to help someone in need! 🎄🧑🏼🎄🎄
linkin.bio/transanta
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This was in very poor taste. The Colombian people deserve better.
Trevor Noah during his opening speech at 67th Annual #GRAMMYs Awards:
“Shakira is here. The greatest thing out of Colombia that isn’t a Class A Felony.”
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She got richer and her world got smaller
“I think it’s possible that we’ve reached the point where everything Taylor Swift writes is about being famous—I don’t know. That sort of bums me out?” Amanda Petrusich joins Tyler Foggatt and Caroline Mimbs Nyce to debrief on their initial impressions of the pop star’s new album, "The Life of a Showgirl.” Read their full conversation—and sign up for the daily newsletter: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/C7…
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Are you the elder sibling by chance? My family is the same, I'm just a sentient chore/money robot. A safer family would allow you room to grieve and be a person.
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I’m SO stoked to announce that I will be joining the @latimes as their new music reporter, starting October 5th. I do plan to move to Los Angeles in the months to come, once it’s safe to do so! 🌞
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This didn’t make the cut in ELLE, but… My favorite discovery about Addison Rae’s upcoming album is that her songs consistently feature the 1988 Korg M1 synthesizer: a staple of 90s house music
elle.com/culture/music/a6446…
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Selena Gomez is not quitting music.
I spoke to her about making her first-ever Spanish-language EP, Revelación, out this Friday.
latimes.com/entertainment-ar…
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THIS COVER WAS BROUGHT TO YOU BY LATINAS. I'm the first Latina to write a Rolling Stone cover story. Bad Bunny's kick-ass partner, Gabriela Berlingeri, is the first Latina to shoot one. @wannabedb is the angel who transcribed and translated five hours of interviews. Dale. 🌴
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I feel you. It's like I have some socially heavy weeks, work-heavy weeks and self-management (cooking/cleaning/exercising) weeks. Never, ever at the same time. It's why a lot of successful/upwardly mobile people have help.
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Shot by Gabriela fucking Berlingeri!!! @gabs1229 🔥
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They found the girl behind the girlsplaining meme! Her name is Denise Sanchez and she's from Argentina.
"She wasn't explaining anything in the photo — she was actually just busy trying to sing a cumbia song to him." h/t @knowyourmeme
news.knowyourmeme.com/news/w…
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Aubrey Plaza read my moody Latina story?!
“It’s important to normalize that there’s all kinds of different Latina people. I mean, all my Puerto Rican cousins are, like, morbid. Morbid shit is going on over there!”
Profile by @jawnita for @VanityFair 🖤
vanityfair.com/hollywood/202…
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This is the Puerto Rican historian who worked with Bad Bunny on the educational material for his new album
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“I’m not here to be a victim. I lived with victims my whole life when I was a child. That’s why I got out of my house and worked for 20 years. And I worked my ass off.”
“I’m here to be an advocate for people with real disabilities and illnesses.”
Go off Britney ✊🏼
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These ghouls, man. Why hire people of color when you can just generate AI journalists with ethnic names? 🥴
Great column by @NualaBishari
What it’s like to watch AI hijack your old job sfchronicle.com/opinion/arti… via @sfchronicle
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Friendship is not a lower octave of romance, it’s just a different kind of intimacy.
With some time, healing and reciprocity, you could find a powerful friendship where romance used to be.
Offering friendship as a consolation prize for a failed romantic connection attempt is absolutely cruel.
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Yeah I’m not getting doxxed for writing a review that barely covers my phone bill
If we’re really doing this, it’s economics.
There’s a huge difference between an era when an editor could make $90k a year for calling the Pussycat Dolls idiots, but it hits different in a world where a 25yo kid has to risk a DDOS attack from a stan army for the promise of $75.
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I wrote about @xlilhuddy — the TikTok influencer and star of Machine Gun Kelly's musical film, "Downfalls High" — who spent the quarantine writing his own pop-punk record
latimes.com/entertainment-ar…
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Somebody give this man an Oscar
ICYMI: A vandal with a bone to pick spray-painted “Mike is a cheater” on an SUV parked in Northeast D.C.
But it wasn’t Mike’s car. nbc4dc.com/FA5pBpa
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I appreciate this re-framing — I live in a city full of men over 30 who don’t know what they’re looking for, please don’t put that birth rate shit on me
For better or worse, birth rate discussions are framed as women choosing to have fewer children. But for most married couples, it’s a joint discussion. Why are we assuming men don’t have opinions on this? Link in replies.
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This man isn’t funny anymore. Justice for Twigs, and the many others he’s surely harmed.
nytimes.com/2020/12/11/arts/…
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I'm deleting this in two minutes but can we please get an investigation of men who delay having children? I assure you that successful women are not single-handedly stalling population growth
Women almost everywhere in the U.S. are delaying having children, resulting in profound changes to American motherhood.
The birthrate is falling fastest in places with the greatest job growth as women prioritize education and careers.
nyti.ms/2TD5PsR
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Hi new followers! For those who don't know me already: I'm a second-gen Cuban-Belizean, based in NYC and raised in Florida. I am currently the editor of Rolling Stone's Latin music section. I also illustrate and make music! Virgo sun/moon, Pisces rising. Se habla Spanglish.
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Dating for fun and dating for a partner are two very different things. Neither is more noble than the other, but you still gotta make sure everyone’s on the same page.
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I asked LA photographer Junior Santillán to shoot me like a moody singer-songwriter of the 90s. Preferably one with a highly-anticipated sophomore album on the way.
He did not miss! ♥️
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I’m not a religious person at ALL but I do
believe there is a spiritual void in this country that has lonely people searching for God in pop stars and other celebrities. That’s why some of these fandoms are Like That.
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I'm one of 115 who were let go from LAT today. I'm proud of what @delosLAtimes accomplished and thank the Guild for securing us severance. I guess now's a good time to finish my novel-slash-screenplay!
Hmu if you need an LA-based writer, singer or DJ: suzy dot exposito at gmail
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It’s official: I got a promotion :~)
I am now a cultural columnist for the @latimes’ sparkling new Latino Initiatives team. Read the full announcement below:!
latimes.com/about/pressrelea…
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J Balvin, Bad Bunny, Mon Laferte, Rosalía, Tomasa del Real, Tucanes de Tijuana, Javiera Mena, Las Robertas, Hurray for the Riff Raff.... and Blackpink, who may not be Latina but united we stan
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We are mad as hell but we will be resourceful.
If you are pregnant in the United States and you don’t want to be,
@AbortionFunds can help you.
@ShoutYrAbortion can help you.
@AidAccessUSA can help you.
@Plancpills can help you.
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On the cover of today’s Sunday Calendar: I interviewed @selenagomez about her Tejano heritage, and how she overcame years of self-doubt to record her first EP in Spanish, Revelación.
latimes.com/entertainment-ar…
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I sat through an hour of DJ Snake to see Cardi B, Ozuna and Selena Gomez sing “Taki Taki” — and it was better than I could’ve imagined 🔥
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I am so sick of having to tolerate people who use public spaces as content creation studios. Not only am I not wearing makeup, but I do not know you and I do not want to be in your videos! Freaks
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Midnights sounds like if you locked Reputation in an underground cellar and let it age for five years 🍷
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This is EXACTLY why “Sympathy” cuts the way it does. You’re included but still made to feel like a charity case.
what's missing from the xcx swift "sympathy is a knife" "actually romantic" discourse is the racial element. charli's insecurities stem from feeling inferior to what society deems desirable (whiteness) whereas taylor's cattiness comes from her privilege and inability to empathize
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I think more artists should take a cue from Bad Bunny and collaborate with historians and ethnographers
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All I want in life right now is to be scooped like this gator in a t-shirt and taken to the key lime pie store
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Anyone who knows anything about Latin American history — even just the number of military coups and genocides within the last 50 years alone — would NOT question a Latino embracing a fascist ideology. And it's not worth engaging people who do.
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Hate to be sincere on a Friday night but: it’s only because of the federal student loan moratorium that I was finally able to pay off two credit cards and a private student loan. I work a white collar job and it took me 14 years to do that. Just #CancelStudentDebt already.
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It’s about to be a Depop, Clothing Swap, Dollar Tree, Value Meal, Three Buck Chuck, Picnic-In-the-Park-Date summer in America
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I interviewed Jeff Buckley’s Panamanian mom, Mary Guibert, about her son’s unsung Latino roots.
“There’s so much emphasis on the Buckley side of things,” says Guibert. “But [Tim was] just somebody flying through the night.”
latimes.com/delos/story/2025…
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When I was a reporter I hired a personal trainer and got a vitamin B12 shots every year ahead of Coachella. It’s not for the weak!!
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I wish all my friends a lover who is NOT afraid of your hotness and WILL take the time to affirm it ♥️
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Another fun fact: Rolling Stone used to ask for sun, moon and rising signs in their job applications!
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Ok what I find off-putting about Euphoria is not that they are teens who have sex and do drugs — it’s that none of them are goofy in the way actual kids are goofy. A show devoid of shenanigans. Lexi dressing up as Bob Ross was the closest thing we got and I loved her for that.
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New for @i_D Magazine:
I flew to PR to interview Bad Bunny, for the fourth time, following the opening weekend of his residency. What ensued was a very heartfelt conversation about home, family and identity. Read at the link below. 🩵❤️🤍
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I will never forget the white male j-school professor who once described my writing as “propaganda” then sent me a pitch years later 💁🏻♀️
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The @guardian removed this portion of Judith Butler's interview after publishing with the note, "This article was edited on 7 September 2021 to reflect developments which occurred after the interview took place." What developments? Why interview Butler at all?
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They have so much original content at their disposal. MTV Diary. Cribs. Daria. Carmen: A Hip Hopera. Even old episodes of TRL. ANYTHING BUT RIDICULOUSNESS
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This week I took over the Latinx Files newsletter.
To all the strange, moody, deadpan Latinas out there… Awaken, my sistren. This is our time. 🥀
latimes.com/world-nation/new…
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