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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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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 21h

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

Someone in a frog costume facing down a line of police in riot gear

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 23h

there is no need to take tactical social movement advice from former fbi agents posting on social media

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, you can now preorder signed copies of TERRY DACTYL from Elliott Bay Book Company💎💐Out on November 11 from @coffeehousepress.bsky.social, book launch at Seattle Art Museum on Saturday, October 25 at 3 pm so signed preorders will go out early, here's the link💎⚡ elliottbaybook.com/item/dKS8Yes...

SIGNED PREORDERS AVAILABLE NOW!
At Elliott Bay Book Company, black text on bright pink background with the cover image of open mouths on the same bright pink, dazzling glitter gem pills flying all around and then bigger ones on the background, floating into the book and off the page

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Heraty Law @heratylaw.bsky.social · 1d

five years ago today

a black fly settles in on Mike Pence’s white hair

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 22h

"Let's do the fucking news"

Kendall Roy from "Succession" in a suit and a baseball cap, hands up in the air, no doubt after saying something horribly cringey which suggests that's he's in way over his head

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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 1d

I will not be jumping through any hoops for the rest of the year. Maybe not even for the foreseeable future.

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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 1d

I just returned from the store and these are my thoughts exactly.

utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1d

Groceries, man, holy shit.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2d

Weird thing where people say “no one could have predicted it” when really what they mean is their political commitments and orientation were such that they ignored everyone who was predicting it

Sorry but “no one could have“ and you having your head stuck up your ass are two different situations

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JSpice @spicetrader.bsky.social · 2d

really interesting and thoughtful 👇👇👇

Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 2d

Contemplating evil in Mommy’s El Camino newsletter.mommyselcamino.com/archive/evil/

evil

Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. I missed you last week. In September, Lexi Kent-Monning, author of Burden of Joy, and I talked about my books, journaling, Apt....

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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 2d

Contemplating evil in Mommy’s El Camino newsletter.mommyselcamino.com/archive/evil/

evil

Welcome to Mommy’s El Camino. I missed you last week. In September, Lexi Kent-Monning, author of Burden of Joy, and I talked about my books, journaling, Apt....

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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 2d

Go see it!

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 2d

Honey, look, it's a gorgeous final copy of TERRY DACTYL, out on November 11 from @coffeehousepress.bsky.social🎉🎉🎉 Book launch on Saturday, October 25, 3 pm at the Seattle Art Museum, and you can preorder signed copies from Elliott Bay Book Company, or preorder from your favorite indie, get ready 💎⚡✨

Bright magenta cover with black border. Floating open mouths in magenta, with tongues out and teeth visible, TERRY DACTYL TERRY DACTYL TERRY DACTYL in one of the mouths. Floating iridescent sparkling glitter pills in spot gloss like jewels. Title at top of black border, author name at bottom, on the side a blurb from Sarah Schulman, "The historical novel on acid"

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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 2d

The 10:10am showing of One Battle After Another in my neighborhood theater had the most people I’ve ever seen at that hour in that theater. We were 3 of ~10 but still, that’s a lot for that hour in that theater.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 3d

The apartments acted alone, pulling the adults and children out of them without anyone’s else’s participation

CNN @cnn.com · 4d

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

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

The word for these horrendous murders is femicide, death by misogyny. The U.S does not keep accurate statistics of femicide. If it did, the numbers would terrify.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/n...

2 Teen Girls Died In a Hit-And-Run. Another Teen Faces Murder Charges.

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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 3d

This story makes me sick and enraged.

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A Girl Walks Home Alone 2 @kellylink.bsky.social · 25d

me [lying face down on the floor]: ladies and gentlemen, the weakened

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 4d

“Supreme Court will let Trump _______ _____ _____ _____ for now”

(Mad Libs, 2025 Edition)

The Washington Jost
Democracy Dies in Darkness&
Supreme Court will let Trump end protected status for Venezuelans for
now
A federal judge had ruled on Sept. 5 that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi
L. Noem broke the law by revoking the temporary protected status of Venezuelan and Haitian immigrants.
Today at 5:16 p.m. EDT
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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 4d

You are very compelling but I must turn my attention back to all my little self-created assignments now

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 4d

This is who @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is. Brilliant. Fearless. I fucking hate typing this shit out: Free Eman.

Amplify amplify amplify please.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 4d

@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social tells these cops about themselves.

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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 4d

Love to let the dog out not knowing it’s rained then let her run back in and jump back into bed 🙄 🐾🐾

Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 4d

Did anyone in LA know in advance it was gonna rain. The entirety of the morning pool crew didn’t know and were talking seniors who check the weather! My app certainly didn’t hint at it. I’m used to living my life not believing in rain until I feel it but this time everyone was caught off guard.

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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com · 4d

“Most of what’s preserved from the past is accidental, so history is an archive of the arbitrary.” 😬

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Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom) @lesbrains.bsky.social · 4d

One of my favorite things is to have conversations while strolling gardens with people I love. Here is one such conversation that I recently had with @wendyortiz.com who spoke with me about hexing politicians, dreams, the women who ARE the Epstein files, and more.

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Sleeping and waking

Myriam Gurba and author Wendy C. Ortiz on dreams, gender violence, true crime, and a hex

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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 5d

TODAY: @lesbrains.bsky.social in conversation with author and psychotherapist Wendy C. Ortiz. “I started asking myself where the anger, grief, and rage affecting my heart came from and that led me to consider my early politicization.” flaminghydra.com/r/c8ed24da?m...

Sleeping and waking

Myriam Gurba and author Wendy C. Ortiz on dreams, gender violence, true crime, and a hex

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