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or-TEE-lay 🇵🇭 Author of THE GROOM WILL KEEP HIS NAME. Editor for print and digital @cntraveler . As seen in @esquire , @catapultstory , @buzzfeednews , etc.
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some professional news: today was my first day as a full-time editor for print and digital (and columnist!) at
@CNTraveler
✈️ 🌏 mostly just excited to regain my old Condé email from 11 years ago (and also for this new era/return to editorial) (and also health insurance)
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for all the high-anxiety high-performing Depresseds out there: sometimes you just have to believe that your bare minimum is other people’s 100% and let that calm you down for a day or two
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This is awful advice. Use your PTO, period. If you need time off, take time off. It's a manager's job/leadership's responsibility to build systems and workflows that work even when teammates are OOO. If one person leaves and it all falls apart, something needs fixing.
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Spanish film producers and distributors (Filmax, Dibulitoon) literally made a film w/ Magellan as hero and Filipinos as romantic interests/understanding supporters/antagonists.........and they’re about to show this film in the PH..........put this colonialist garbage in the trash
There's an animated movie about Magellan and just... YIKESSSS.
Stop depicting colonizers as good guys.
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Barack Obama wearing a barong tagalog
that's it that's the tweet
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all the next Philippines contestants will have to wear yellow every year until we win again 🇵🇭
#MissUniverse
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Are you an editor at a magazine/publication looking for articles/essays *not* related to COVID-19? Drop your @ in the replies so freelancers can find opportunities beyond pandemic coverage.
It’s important to stay on top of corona info, but we can care about many things at once!
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it’s the henley, the love for his family, and the great parenting for me
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WHAT A STATEMENT— bun vs. pushed back tresses; mermaid skirt vs. full skirt; BUT KEEPING THE SWEETHEART CORSET
@PiaWurtzbach
#MissUniverse
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to everyone saying “kill Steve” pls get tested for covid one of the symptoms is a lack of taste
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hi there hello have you met Saikat Chakrabarti, Ocasio-Cortez’s chief-of-staff
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friendly reminder to take your PTO/vacation days, even if you’re not going anywhere, before they run out
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since we're all sharing flashbacks: 2017, conference room — HR specialist telling a room of mostly Black and brown employees that "you shouldn't ask about each other's salaries, that's disrespectful"
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writing is exhausting for no reason, like.......body fatigue?? because i was clickity-clackitying my lil thoughts on my laptop???? gröss
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I got a second dresser (left) to match the first (right) and it did not occur to me that 1) the older dresser’s wood would have changed color so drastically after light exposure over three years, and/or 2) that the new dresser would have either changed wood type and coloring
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One taught me love, one taught me patience, and one taught me pain.
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a boy i went on a first date with this week graciously told me via text that he didn’t think we had chemistry which is absolutely fair!! i appreciate the honesty bc i can never tell if i have chemistry with someone bc i can force chemistry with a rock if i wanted it to fuck me
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i'm sorry.....hold on......Justin Min from The Umbrella Academy is 31????
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me: lmao i don't need to be in a relationship
*10mins*
me: omg what if i never find love??
*17mins*
me: i don't really feel like dating
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cast Richard Madden and Manny Jacinto as Achilles and Patroclus challenge!!!!!
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it’s an honor just to be Asian, but it is a blessing to be Filipino
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Annalise Keating when her students/employees kill another person
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Mom's health took a turn recently. Due to Covid-19, I likely won't be in Manila when she dies. She tells me: Write through what's difficult. So I'm writing a travel novel (plot: mother and son on a round-the-world trip)—and wrote about it for
@CNTraveler
:
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the first time Miranda and Steve met!! my god!!! give Cynthia Nixon and David Eigenberg their retroactive Emmys for this!!!
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i just tried to get some alone time at the pool but Maine Mendoza was there 😒
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Chris was also involved in an HBO documentary called "Birders: The Central Park Effect"—here he is in 2012, celebrating the doc with the director Jeffrey Kimball and the late great birder Starr Saphir
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that must’ve been real nice for Steve Harvey to say “Philippines” and it wasn’t a mistake
#MissUniverse
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In 2018, I began a book about sex & dating as a gay Filipino immigrant. Today, I'm publishing a memoir (and audiobook) of unlearning internalized colonialism and racist love—work that's ongoing and eternal. Let the record show: THE GROOM WILL KEEP HIS NAME
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"he organized the political action committee (PAC) No More REPublicans Toying with Your Life (No More REPTYLs)"
Chris Cooper said "no more snakes!!!!"
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the immigrant dad urge to print out all emails from an airline and put them in a transparent yet colorful plastic envelope and bringing it to the airport while traveling
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"The data released by Pfizer Monday was delivered in a news release, not a peer-reviewed medical journal. It is not conclusive evidence that the vaccine is safe and effective, and the initial finding of more than 90 percent efficacy could change as the trial goes on."
Breaking News: Pfizer said early data showed its vaccine was more than 90 percent effective in preventing Covid-19, pushing the company to a lead in the vaccine race.
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Some professional news: I've been laid off from my role as exec editor
@CatapultStory
mag; the company is shuttering the mag & classes program. ()
I'm shocked & sad, but proud of the work & growth I've done there for 4.5 years and eager for a fresh start.
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"omg matt it's been 3 months and you're still not over that break-up??"
me:
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yes, i am doing NaNoWriMo* this year
*National No Writing Month
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i realized i am Not Doing Well when i thought "at least now that Mom's dead, i don't have to worry about anyone hurting her or killing her in broad daylight"
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writer tip! if editors tell you to cut something—whether a line or paragraph or page—it doesn't always mean it's bad! we're often cutting for pace, clarity, etc., so save them in another doc for use later/elsewhere (what i like to call "send your darlings to finishing school")
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this is a fascinating reading of Medusa as in Ovid's Metamorphosis: her snake hair wasn't a punishment from Athena, but a gift 🐍🐍🐍
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CALLING FILIPINO AND FILIPINO-AMERICAN ARTISTS!
@BuzzFeedPH
will be publishing more long-form articles in the coming month and I need folks to do the art! If you're interested in a commission, please email your portfolio to ortile
@buzzfeed
.com.
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hello! i'm an editor at Condé Nast Traveler and i'm looking to expand my rolodex w/ travel writers, reporters, photographers, illustrators, etc. 📝📷🌍✈️ pls do send over your contact & portfolio/clips *via this form*:
i'll reach out! hope to chat soon :)
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the day after that, my manager pulled me aside and said what i did was wrong, that it could blow up in my face and deter people from working with me
worried it was true, i confided in my fellow brown co-workers and they introduced me to the concept of "tone policing"
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hello, writers!! i'm open to personal essay pitches at
@CatapultStory
; a good Catapult essay looks outward at the world we live in, interpreting our culture as keenly as it investigates a story of the self
pitch guide below, i will pay u $ to use ur brain
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The Minneapolis City Council plans to disband the their police department and invest in community-led public safety, reports
@jaywillis
for
@theappeal
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me, writing fiction: i know what it's about, but i don't know what has to happen 🤡
me, writing nonfiction: i know what happened, but i don't know what it's about 🤡
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it took me longer to arrange the books than to build the bookshelves
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telling my godchildren this was Challengers
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the irony that she is now the one called She Who Must Not Be Named
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🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨 If my timeline looks like this tomorrow, I’m taking you all to court 🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨
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2016: signed for my first studio apartment in Brooklyn
2020: leaving my first studio apartment in Brooklyn to move into my first one-bedroom in Brooklyn, taking the last slice of cake and bottle of champagne with me
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i think one of the scariest lines in Fleabag is when she tells the priest “I love you” and he tells her “it’ll pass”
like? shit, what?? even an intense love like that? will fade and pass with time????
a comfort in some ways, surely, but.......f u c k
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watch this and i dare you to tell me Steve doesn’t know how to fuck at any age
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I am working on something new. Here, a few lines: “Whenever I open my book, I remember her, wherever she may be, always my mother. To her, I would like to say: My love for you shall live forever. And, in these pages, so will you.”
Rest well, Ma. I love you.
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