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My very own circus: betrayal exposed in local hospital(s)

I had a tubo-ovarian abscess. A big ball of pus dominated my right tube and my life for weeks. It started as an unexplained blinding cramp pain in the lower abdomen. A visit to the radiology department revealed: nothing. The pain evolved, taking over the whole abdomen. More tests, more pain. A visit to the…

Dear Justice Ginsburg,

Hope this letter finds you well, wherever there may be. My name is Sofia – Brazilian, twenty-four years old, Aries with rising Capricorn, sociologist whose work focuses on tales and dreams. I never expected to be able to speak to you directly, like this. I am, however, arrogant enough to think you would enjoy the…

We didn’t deserve DareDevil

I’m really missing DareDevil you guys. As the pandemic rages on I’m trying to look up to people who are honest about their pain and understand the tragedy of trying to do good in a place that does not reward good. The New York City presented in Netflix’s Daredevil was exactly what I think about…

You are not going to win Oscars

but that is not the end of the world. I could have had a YouTube channel at fourteen. Sharing opinions, discoveries, imperfect short films… But I was too busy saving my materials for the academy awards. Saving my scripts for competitions that would take me straight to fame and fortune. Needless to say, I didn’t…

What to do when you are confronted by life’s injustices

T.W Death, violence A woman I knew suddenly passed away from a cancer that seemed to take her in one short breath. Her sister is still alive and she now grieves simultaneously for her only sibling and her own child, who recently entered a coma after a car accident. Separate incidents fell upon the same…

Should you go to film school?

Spoiler Alert: it depends (duh) Ok, so… Since this is probably the prelude to humanity’s twilight and we are slowly continuing to descend into pandemic-induced madness, it is no wonder the Trump administration is ignoring the all-encompassing chaos, pushing hard for simultaneously reopening schools while trying to kick out all international students under the pretense…

Why love stories in animated films are really important

I like the modern Disney stuff. Frozen, Brave, Moana… But what about ~love~? I got HBO Max (recommend it deeply) and been binge watching Studio Ghibli films (do it too, even if it’s the last thing you do, do it!). Ghibli films are beautiful in every way a film can be beautiful. The plots are…

Leftube is saving my life

We live in a time of confronting things: our past, present and future. From (in my case) discovering 8,000 indigenous people were brutally murdered during Brazil’s dictatorship time and there was little accountability about it, to learning how recent is America’s state-sentioned segregationist past. As far as the present goes, we are collectively confronting police…

Riding the Duolingo train

There is a green bird looking for you and it wants you to remember those verbs. I really like the idea of learning a language. The glamour of turning, mid-conversation, into a poet and recite verbatim some classy line from a foreign film is exactly the vibe my struggling author persona needs right now. At…

What to do with the body cam footage?

As protests against the murder of Black people in America escalate, images of killings are massively shared. What are the impacts of that? This morning I watched, with horror, a Daily Mail article with access to the body cam footage of the police officer who shot Rayshard Brooks. A young father coming from his daughter’s…

Discussing “Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich”

I had a hard time with the Netflix show. Let’s break down why. Directed by Lisa Bryant, based on the bestseller by author and former Epstein’s neighbor James Patterson, Netflix’s “Filthy Rich”, co-written by John Connolly with Tim Malloy, tells the tale of sexual predator and billionaire Jeffrey Epstein. The documentary is shot as a…

Brazil is the worst coronavirus scenario

– Here is what is going on “What do you want me to do?” – Asked the president of Brazil, Jair Messias Bolsonaro, when confronted with the country’s record-high coronavirus death toll. Since then, the statistics only grew and Brazil now stands as the soon-to-be country with the most coronavirus cases, surpassing the United States…

Why applying for jobs (even before coronavirus) sucks

and how to survive it. I went to gradschool. I have a masters degree to prove it and everything. I went through six years of higher education to learn the various reasons why capitalism sucks and now I get to go out into the world expecting to become a full-on business woman. Report to the…

Adapting to covid: from late night to youtube

I’m a late night fan. Every morning I sip my coffee and go on youtube to watch a 10 – 30 min video of The Daily Show, The Late Show, Last Week Tonight, Late Night… one of those. My day does not start until I hear Trevor Noah, Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers or John Oliver…