emphases: artist profiles, music, gender, queerness, grief, christianity, forming identity
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creative writing and culture blogging. highlights:-poems on the LA River (jan 2024)
-prose on heat waves (sept 2022)
-prose on friendship, grief, and home (may 2022)
-my personal style manifesto (jan 2023)
The Luna Collective
-Jackson Sage Tends to Love Songs Like A Garden (november 2022)
-Review: Bright Eyes at The Greek Theatre, Los Angeles (june 2022, ft. my photography)
-Review: of Montreal at The Regent, Los Angeles (june 2024, ft. my photography)
-Review: Palehound at The Lodge Room, Los Angeles (november 2023, ft. my photography)
-Review: Skullcrusher at The Moroccan Lounge, Los Angeles (july 2022, ft. my photography)
-Review: underscores at Elsewhere, Brooklyn (august 2024, ft. my photography)
-Review: Bennett Coast at The Bowery Ballroom, New York (august 2024, ft. my photography)
-Guide: Pitchfork Music Festival 2022 (july 2022)
assorted personal projects
-@aftr.rain: an instagram magazine profiling queer artists of all kinds. check it out! (fall 2020)-music writing exercise: an album review every day for a month on Twitter / X (february 2022)
-moldy tears: a poetry collection. sold 100 copies and donated 50% of the proceeds to the National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network
Ms. Magazine
-Four Female Editors-In-Chief from College Newspapers Serve Their Communities During COVID-19 Crisis (april 2020)
-Six Things Feminists Should Know About the War on Drugs (april 2020)
-My Feminist Reclamation of Valentine’s Day (february 2020)
Daily Trojan
-The Scene Kid: my biweekly column about Los Angeles' local music scene (spring 2020)
-The Dornsife Punk: Claire Julian heads grunge solo project (december 2019)
-SleezeHog Productions platforms artists of color (november 2019)
USC Annenberg Media
-Arrest of 21 Savage shines light on US Immigration system (march 2019)
-Longtime Angeleno honored with street sign in Los Feliz (february 2019)
-A-List Breakups and Fandom Heartbreak (april 2018)
-Longtime Angeleno honored with street sign in Los Feliz (february 2019)
-A-List Breakups and Fandom Heartbreak (april 2018)
KXSC Blog
-APAHM - Artist Interview: New Fossils (may 2019)
-APHAM - Playlist by Fiona Pestana (may 2019)
-New Adds: Girlpool, Dyke Drama, Panda Bear, Sharon Van Etten (collaborative; february 2019)
-New Adds: Maggie Rogers, Pedro the Lion, TV-MA, DJ Richard, Planningtorock (collaborative; january 2019)
-New Adds: Gautier Vizioz, The Midnight Contender, Varnish La Piscine, & Mat Kerekes (collaborative; january 2019)
-KXSC Programmers’ Favorite 2018 Releases (collaborative; december 2018)
-Playlist - End Of The Night (september 2018)
-Retro-Grades: Fun., Aim And Ignite (september 2018)
-Black History Month Playlist #4 - Intern Takeover (collaborative; february 2018)