My Speaking 

“Am I Doing It Wrong?”: Tipping With Monica Torres”

I was the inaugural guest on HuffPost’s new podcast where I explained the history of tipping in America and what so many of us misunderstand about it.

MSNBC: The Debate Over How To Spend Your Time In Quarantine

I was asked to speak on an MSNBC panel on early quarantine activities based on my popular HuffPost article “Please Don’t Be Guilted Into Being More Productive During The Coronavirus.” I shared my views on the value of being more gentle with ourselves during an uncertain time.

Museum Of Moving Image: How People of Color Are Putting Themselves Into Stories They Were Written Out OF

I spoke at 2017's Theorizing the Web about racebending, a process where fans are responding to all-white casting notices by imagining people of color back into the stories that they were written out of. It’s a clapback to whitewashing. By tapping into the social, communal, responsive nature of internet fandom, fans are able to use all the online tools at their disposal —fanfiction, gifs, and fanart— to spread racebent visions of better, more realistic representation of worlds.