Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

LightNews

Wendy C. Ortiz

@wendyortiz.com

2.7K followers 990 following 4.5K posts

Writes. EXCAVATION: A MEMOIR, HOLLYWOOD NOTEBOOK: ESSAYS, and BRUJA: A DREAMOIR reissued by Northwestern University Press, 2025. @nupress.bsky.social EIC of MOMMY’S EL CAMINO 🛞 a weekly newsletter. she/her. Los Angeles 🤌🏼 https://linktr.ee/wendy.c.ortiz

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · Mar 31

BOOKS AND BOOKS and BoOkS. Official pub date is 4/15/25. Pre-orders are out there 🪽
Love to @nupress.bsky.social and to the OG small publishers who put out the first incarnations of these books 💚💚💚

Stacks of books by Wendy C. Ortiz, cover out, with 9 copies behind each on a wood table.

Stacks of books by Wendy C. Ortiz, cover out, with 9 copies behind each on a wood table.

Stacks of books by Wendy C. Ortiz, cover out, with 9 copies behind each on a wood table.

Stacks of books by Wendy C. Ortiz, cover out, with 9 copies behind each on a wood table.

Reposted by Wendy C. Ortiz

LJ Pemberton @ljabouttown.bsky.social · 1d

The cover of Still Alive, by LJ Pemberton.

Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 1d

I did see that and I’m interested!

Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 1d

If you reply to this with love stories about your relationship with your agent, you are maybe unhinged but not the kind of unhinged I find interesting.

Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 1d

Not unhinged but…after someone compared literary agents to realtors, I…have not been able to lose the image 😆

Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 1d

I think “unhinged” just lost all meaning there.

Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 1d

I lol’d when I read those, I mean, c’mon!

Reposted by Wendy C. Ortiz

Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, the book tour for TERRY DACTYL is coming right up, please spread the word!!🎉🎉 Starting at the Seattle Art Museum on 10/25, 3 pm & then In conversation w/ @alexanderchee.bsky.social in NYC, Jennifer Natalya Fink in DC, Jeannie Vanasco in Baltimore, & @lenizumas.bsky.social in Portland💎⚡🔥

MATTILDA BERNSTEIN SYCAMORE ON TOUR WITH TERRY DACTYL

10/25 SEATTLE ART MUSEUM BOOKS SOLD BY ELLIOTT BAY BOOK CO.

11/19 THE STRAND NEW YORK, NY WITH ALEXANDER CHEE

12/1 POLITICS & PROSE WASHINGTON, D.C. WITH JENNIFER NATALYA FIOK

12/3 GREEDY READS BALTIMORE, MD WITH JEANNIE VANASCO

1/13 POWELL'S BOOKS PORTLAND, OR WITH LENI ZUMAS

MASKS GREATLY APPRECIATED!

Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 2d

Current view from my zero gravity chair in the backyard

a deep blue cloudless sky

Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 2d

In this case I see a meet-up group with the same photo of the person who emailed me, with the name of the group matching. Another photo shows several people holding books, and the book covers look legit—no aberrations. I have to sleuth to make sure I’m dealing with a human.

Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 2d

Sucks to be inundated by bots and/or questionable people offering book PR with ai-written emails, and then have to do like three layers of due diligence to determine if other emails are from actual real people representing an actual real book club.

Reposted by Wendy C. Ortiz

Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 2d

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 3d

Just sprung my mom out of the hospital my grandmother passed away in 14 years ago 🌀

Reposted by Wendy C. Ortiz

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3d

I'm so proud of everyone from my old neighborhood of Rogers Park in Chicago. I see what you have been and are doing. I am so proud of how organized the community is and how much more so everyone is becoming. It is inspiring. Just one example... And this is something EVERYONE can do. Everyone.

Informational flyer about Rogers Park Whistle Protocols, explaining how to use whistles to alert neighbors of emergencies, with color-coded alerts, steps for use, and encouragement to form a crowd and stay loud for safety.

Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 3d

It’s good to read about recent (2018-present) protests and how they’ve played out so as not to memory-hole stories of resistance!

Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 3d

“Portland has a reputation for being scrappy and resourceful. We have a reputation for antifascist action, and for good reason. As I wrote for The Nation in 2020, Portland has a history of successfully standing up to fascists.” cariluna.com/war-ravaged-...

War-Ravaged Portland

I was thinking that I might take some photos on my walk tomorrow to show you Portland in all of its overcast autumn glory, but you don’t need to see images of our tree-lined streets and our communi…

Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 4d

I’m sorry to hear this. Wishing RH ease and recovery.

Reposted by Wendy C. Ortiz

muhr-eerie @marie.likes.earth · 6d

next week has been so tiring

Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 5d

I will say exactly this to the Phillies fan in the family tomorrow evening 😆

Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 5d

That was quite an ending!

Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 5d

having a coffee at 3pm🤞🏽

Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 5d

Take good care 🌻

Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 5d

and I grew up watching Benny Hill

Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 5d

I have never heard Yakety Sax as the soundtrack to so many videos as I have in 2025

Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 5d

That’s what happens when you use the phrase “illegal alienage” talking to reporters.

Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 5d