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30. Little deaths/Little delights
Everyone say, good morning Victoria Hi hi, Happy Sunday (Monday?Tuesday?). These past three weeks have been some of the most exciting...
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Aug 4, 2024


D.C. read the Literati summer manifesto
LITTLE DEATHS/DELIGHTS I woke up this morning on a friend’s sofa in the nation’s capital with a blanket magically draped over me,...
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Jul 28, 2024


Beating the Spotify Algorithm
5.5 Albums that changed my life This past Sunday, I wrote about how I was sick of my Spotify AI DJ. It gives me this feeling that I’m...
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Jul 25, 2024


God is change and so must we
Little Deaths/Little Delights, Full Moon Edition Hello hello hellooo!! This has been a wacky week both online and offline. I got the...
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Jul 21, 2024


I think I think about myself too much
Good evening, it’s 10 p.m. in New York and I am drinking Concoction Juice (a non-algorithm-based rec I may share soon) and thinking about...
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Jul 17, 2024


Hot Literati has a new Babysitter
Little Deaths/Little Delights, Dinner with Ex, Aging, and Free Shots Happy Sunday. I bought paper towels from one grocery store and left...
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Jul 14, 2024


(re)Cognition Summer Syllabus
The following are books and readings that I think really capture and tackle and confront some of the social, philosophical, and societal...
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Jul 13, 2024


alive girl diaries: week 3
The answer is bad systems Last week I hopped on a 6 a.m. flight and hauled two suitcases with my life belongings across the country,...
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Jul 11, 2024


The Romance of The West: A Cowgirl Manifesto
They didn’t know what to call us before. Descendants of Artemis; some kind of moon fable brought to life with our nimble hands and wild...
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Jul 8, 2024


Hungover Musings, Summer Flings
26. Little Deaths/Delights For better or worse, or better and worse, life always feels like some sort of dream to me. This comes up a lot...
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Jul 7, 2024


S.1 Ep 6. The (Black, lesbian) woman's problem
I want to know what Hella’s room looks like. Is it small and caving like Giovanni’s? Forgettable and impersonal like David’s? I have a...
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Jul 5, 2024


July '24 Deaths & Delights
DEATHS noisy cars cover charges curly hair + humidity self-pity credit scores people with their phones out at concerts men who use double...
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Jul 4, 2024


Hot75: (re)Cognition Summer Edition
Everything about life is sticky and tactile. Anything you brush against even slightly has a high chance of clinging to you. Sometimes we...
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Jul 3, 2024


(re)COGNITION SUMMER: … Into the Anaxagoric Emerald
by Anderson I remember my future now. I am Caribbean royalty and all the big city is my proxy throne. I wear the waves on my back like a...
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Jul 2, 2024


The World has its own Music
and God, his own schedule Music has sounded so wonderful lately, because I have been listening to less. I've been watching the sunset in...
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Jul 1, 2024


I used to be scared of my own reflection
Until Hot Literati held the mirror for me The semester was coming to an end when I interviewed to be an intern at Hot Literati. I called...
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Jun 30, 2024


rip grimes, you would've loved grimes
My brilliant, tik-tok literate 14 year old sister had to explain this phrase to me. Every person under 25 riding in my minivan for the...
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Jun 27, 2024


alive girl diaries: week 2
Defanging Big Tech’s Frankenstein There’s a recurring ad that I’ve been getting since I graduated high school. It first showed up on...
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Jun 26, 2024


Can't Stop the Feelin'
“The body is hands and eyes”- an impermanent introduction to an intern H-A-L-E-Y: happy, animal lover, leggings wearer, egg lover, yellow...
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Jun 25, 2024


Hello, Hailo
How I found belonging in Hot Literati And when I say “Hailo”, I don’t just mean Hailo herself (although, yes…hello to the curly hair and...
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Jun 24, 2024
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