A selection of my favorite works I've written.
Instant Replay
Written November 2016 for Real Life Magazine
I wrote about the power and trauma within a gif's loop.
Majoring in English
Written March 2013 for The Feminist Wire
Winner of the Dunbar Student Prize for Best Campus Writing
An essay on my complicated relationship with English and why I sign my name Monica, not Mónica.
Can You Be Fired for Your Political Beliefs?
Can You Be Fired for Missing Work During Hurricane Irma?
Written 2017 for Ladders
A series I started where I talk to legal experts about questions I have during news cycles.
How People Are Using Gifs to Get Off
Written April 2017 for High-Strung
An essay on how women are reclaiming their sexual desires from an industry that ignores them. Aka, how women are swapping sex gifs as party favors in participatory online porn culture.
Meet the Spanish Interpreter Who's Making History at This Year's World Series
Written October 2016 for Fusion
In 2016, Major League Baseball mandated Spanish-language interpreters for all of its teams and I reported the story.
The Sex Worker Putting Herself Through Law School
Written May 2017 for High-Strung
“It’s a lot more than a transaction of sex or a lap dance. People are also paying to feel a certain way...to feel powerful, to feel like their boss.”
Donald Trump Is Forcing Us to Confront the Limits of Political Satire
Written March 2017 for Quartz
An essay on the possibilities and limits of political satire during the Trump presidency.
A Big Data Breakup Album
Written May 2015 for The Hairpin
A playlist examining data surveillance through pop songs, because whether we like it or not "we’re all in a long-term relationship with clingy big data."
As part of The Hairpin's roundtables, I talked about how I'm no Lois Lane, a woman who spits Spanish as if she's razing the Earth with it, steak tartare capitalism, my defense mechanism of being people-pleasing bland, why I would die on a battlefield for my Mom, and why “She didn’t let him get away with it,” is the crest on my coat of arms.