Writing Projects
This is where I write for myself.
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These projects are where I explore creativity, culture, and what it means to pay close attention.
They're slower than the rest of the internet on purpose. They ask questions more than they answer them. They follow a thread until it goes somewhere interesting.
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Each one has its own rhythm. All of them are rooted in the belief that slowing down is its own kind of practice.
Consider This A Note
Consider This a Note is a Substack for writers, founders, and anyone doing creative work in the middle of a full, complicated life.
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These are reflective essays that are shaped by editorial thinking, lived experience, and a restless curiosity that doesn't always resolve neatly. They explore what it means to build meaningful work without losing yourself in it, how creativity survives ambition, doubt, and the quiet weight of simply keeping going.
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Some pieces dig into craft and voice. Others sit with the harder questions like who gets to call themselves creative, what we owe our work, and what our work owes us back.
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There are no quick fixes here. Just honest notes, written with care, for people who want to think more clearly about how they create and why it matters.
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Awesome Latinas:
The Substack
The Book of Awesome Latinas was a celebration, but some stories don't fit neatly between two covers. The Substack is where Ashley and I keep going.
We write together here, exploring the stories, histories, and legacies of Latina and Latine femmes that the book introduced but couldn't fully hold.
It's part archive, part ongoing conversation, part love letter to the women who built the way forward for the rest of us.
If the book brought you into this world, this is where we keep building it together.
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Mirtle's Next Bite
Food is never just food. It's the ventanita where everyone knows your order, the meal that made a whole city make sense, the dish you ate once and never stopped thinking about.
Mirtle's Next Bite is what happens when a Dominican-born, NYC and Miami-raised writer with a journalism background and too many food photos on her phone decides to write about everything she eats and everything eating reveals.
Restaurants worth the trip. Cities understood through their food. Memories that live in a single bite. Strong opinions delivered with full confidence and zero apologies. Part food diary, part cultural observation, part love letter to the table with the occasional take that might start an argument.
Coming April 2026. Subscribe here.
