Lilliam Rivera

@lilliamr.bsky.social

Award-winning author. Bronx born, L.A. living. Latest: TINY THREADS (Del Rey Books), available where books are sold. https://www.lilliamrivera.com

There has been a mini-renaissance lately of TV shows adapting great Latinx SF! 100 Years of Solitude, Like Water for Chocolate, El eternauta, House of the Spirits, and the horror stories of Mariana Enriquez. Check out my Reactor article for a rundown - including advice on proper prep for reach show!

Reactor Magazine@reactorsff.bsky.social · 6d ago

Latin American SFF has received a surge of interest over the last few years–a trend reflected in the number of excellent TV adaptations across genres. @benfrancisco.bsky.social recommends 5 series inspired from Latinx genre classics, from The House of the Spirits to Like Water for Chocolate!

Imagine thinking you did nothing wrong because you only walked in to the room and left. And having your lawyer send that out as a statement Fuck all them guys on that group chat, that frat, that institution. All of them.

sitting down to write a column about how too many minorities are getting nominated for prizes these days is real loser shit like scraping the bottom of the racism barrel loser shit

finally saw The Odyssey and I'll keep that review to myself. But all the trailers beforehand are all these men men men movies and then one movie with a woman and she's a scary mother. Like, wtf

Fun fact — and reminder: For all their focus on “officer safety” and arguments about aggressive tactics being necessary, no ICE officer has ever been killed in the line of duty. It is more deadly in the US to be an elementary school student than an ICE officer.

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New: ICE plans to spend millions of dollars on Boston Dynamics dog robots. ICE says this is to improve "officer safety." The robots can open doors, pick up objects, have 360 cameras, infrared vision, etc. Boston Dynamics didn't respond to question on its stance on ICE www.404media.co/ice-plans-to...

When I was a high school junior living in Baltimore, but homesick for NYC, I saw the 1980 film Times Square about four or five times. Tim Curry played one of my favorite movie DJs, right up there with Lynne Thigpen in The Warriors and Samuel Jackson in Do the Right Thing.

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For Dolly Parton all the euphemisms are truisms. Without exaggeration I’m confidant we’ll all continue to discover more about her humble, important & generous altruistic charity work, which she would barely ever mention. Yet she somehow always found a good word for everyone, bar none. 🕊️🎶🤍 🦋

BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...

Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah

An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.

nytimes.com