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Wendy C. Ortiz

@wendyortiz.com

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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

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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.

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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 16h

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

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muhr-eerie @marie.likes.earth · 2d

next week has been so tiring

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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 20h

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

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That was quite an ending!

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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 1d

having a coffee at 3pm🤞🏽

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Take good care 🌻

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and I grew up watching Benny Hill

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

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

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Beth! You’re in that world now, or about to be? 🥹

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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 1d

White Memorial hospital administrators are sickening. laist.com/news/politic...

At a Boyle Heights hospital, ICE agents call the shots, doctors say

Doctors say administrator directives allow immigration agents to interfere in medical decisions and compromise medical care.

laist.com

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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 1d

The photo is not appealing to me, but it made me look at the comments and the quote posts which are hilarious. Don’t even need to read the article (not a subscriber, paywall), the responses to this post say plenty 😂

Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 1d

This 'The Bear'-esque dining experience puts you in the center of the kitchen chaos

At Speakeasy Society's 'Family Meal,' curse words are thrown, recipes are slandered and it all makes for fun, irresistible drama.

www.latimes.com

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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 1d

did they also live near windmills
are they related to the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa

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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 1d

“Semen demon” was one of the prime takeaways for my 14yo who saw it with us on Sunday.

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Memo Torres @eltragon.bsky.social · 1d

I used to be able to keep these DAILY MEMOs to under 3 minutes, the last couple videos have been impossible to. ICE is escalating in Los Angeles, just look at the article version with every incident highlighted. This is only what we could confirm, only what we know of. @lataco.bsky.social

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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 1d

I can imagine you saying this aloud 🤣

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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 1d

Do you remember all the times you’ve seen ppl lament on social media that “we’re through the looking-glass”? For years. Just through and through. Apparently the looking-glass is endless. This timeline continues its batshit bonkers-ness.

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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 1d

If one of my exes has on their profile that they’ve “been antifa since birth” does that mean I’m the ex-girlfriend of the founder of antifa
lmao

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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 2d

You buying books today from bookshop.org for the free shipping? If you click on my linktree in my bio you’ll see links to Bookshop for all three of my books 🤗 Buy Excavation for your oldest friend, Hollywood Notebook for the artist in your life, and Bruja for your Halloween hottie 👻

The books Excavation, Hollywood Notebook, and Bruja by Wendy C. Ortiz on a wood table.

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Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom) @lesbrains.bsky.social · 3d

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Poppy State: A Labyrinth of Plants and a Story of Beginnings
By Myriam Gurba. Timber Press. Out
Oct. 21.
The latest by writer and activist Myriam Gurba is a raw yet delightful lesson for our time. Gurba masterfully blends ecofeminism, memoir, humor, candor, plant love and Indigenous knowledge into one of the most unique and captivating books I've read this year.

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