Wendy C. Ortiz
@wendyortiz.com
Excavation: A Memoir
Hollywood Notebook: Essays
Bruja: A Dreamoir
Northwestern University Press, 2025
Mommy’s El Camino is my weekly newsletter.
she/her. Los Angeles.
https://linktr.ee/wendy.c.ortiz
Hollywood Notebook: Essays
Bruja: A Dreamoir
Northwestern University Press, 2025
Mommy’s El Camino is my weekly newsletter.
she/her. Los Angeles.
https://linktr.ee/wendy.c.ortiz
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Wendy C. Ortiz
@wendyortiz.com
· Dec 1
I honestly think buying my books as a SET would make a reader in your life very happy/angsty/overwhelmed/jolted/aroused/grateful/satisfied.
Put a green bow around it 💚
Excavation: bookshop.org/p/books/exca...
Hollywood Notebook: bookshop.org/p/books/holl...
Bruja: bookshop.org/p/books/bruj...
Put a green bow around it 💚
Excavation: bookshop.org/p/books/exca...
Hollywood Notebook: bookshop.org/p/books/holl...
Bruja: bookshop.org/p/books/bruj...
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honestly very moving!! there’s a frog with an accordion
Anti-ICE protesters are having a rolling noise demo and protest in downtown Minneapolis targeting hotels where federal agents are reportedly staying -- starting at the Canopy by Hilton and going to the Renaissance Minneapolis Hotel. Police have just arrived as we are posting this.
January 10, 2026 at 3:33 AM
honestly very moving!! there’s a frog with an accordion
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basement bear..... call me
January 10, 2026 at 4:38 AM
basement bear..... call me
I left the high school short film showcase feeling inspired. Horror, documentary, mockumentary, one-minute films, films based on a photo or a written prompt, comedy. The kids are making them and I love it all ❤️
January 10, 2026 at 4:48 AM
I left the high school short film showcase feeling inspired. Horror, documentary, mockumentary, one-minute films, films based on a photo or a written prompt, comedy. The kids are making them and I love it all ❤️
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A woman on IG has been making videos of immigrant lines at the U.S. Mexico borders…full of Americans standing in line to get affordable dental care in Mexico.
It’s sublime counter programming.
It’s sublime counter programming.
January 9, 2026 at 11:52 PM
A woman on IG has been making videos of immigrant lines at the U.S. Mexico borders…full of Americans standing in line to get affordable dental care in Mexico.
It’s sublime counter programming.
It’s sublime counter programming.
Woohoo I’m invited back to the “monthly sanctuary for readers, cannabis lovers, and creative souls to gather around books, cannabis culture, healing, and bliss-centered living” aka The Lit Club, to talk about Hollywood Notebook this year 😎
January 10, 2026 at 1:25 AM
Woohoo I’m invited back to the “monthly sanctuary for readers, cannabis lovers, and creative souls to gather around books, cannabis culture, healing, and bliss-centered living” aka The Lit Club, to talk about Hollywood Notebook this year 😎
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I will read every interview with Heated Rivalry writer and director Jacob Tierney because his quotes are truly a reporter's dream: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
January 9, 2026 at 11:42 PM
I will read every interview with Heated Rivalry writer and director Jacob Tierney because his quotes are truly a reporter's dream: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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It has never been more important in most of our lifetimes than now to make art that deeply offends and concerns fascists.
January 9, 2026 at 9:13 PM
It has never been more important in most of our lifetimes than now to make art that deeply offends and concerns fascists.
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Every year since 2021, the Periplus collective has awarded mentorships to U.S.-based writers of color. Congrats to all the 2026 Periplus Fellows!
Announcing the 2026 class of Periplus fellows!
Every year, the Periplus collective awards mentorships to writers of color living and working in the United States, pairing each one with a member of the collective: an established writer who will …
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January 9, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Every year since 2021, the Periplus collective has awarded mentorships to U.S.-based writers of color. Congrats to all the 2026 Periplus Fellows!
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On the anniversary of the fires, I spent some time in Amir's Garden, named for Amir Dialameh, an Iranian immigrant who lugged plants atop a ridge to rehabilitate a burn scar after a fire swept through Griffith Park in 1971.
It was a reminder that we're all tenders of this fire-prone landscape
It was a reminder that we're all tenders of this fire-prone landscape
Burn scars
It's remarkable, given our climate reality, that more neighborhoods were not lost one year ago. But truly engaging with that climate reality means we have to rethink the entire city at once
www.torched.la
January 9, 2026 at 7:01 PM
On the anniversary of the fires, I spent some time in Amir's Garden, named for Amir Dialameh, an Iranian immigrant who lugged plants atop a ridge to rehabilitate a burn scar after a fire swept through Griffith Park in 1971.
It was a reminder that we're all tenders of this fire-prone landscape
It was a reminder that we're all tenders of this fire-prone landscape
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people are posting a lot of things about ICE agents right now that are true for All Cops
January 9, 2026 at 5:32 PM
people are posting a lot of things about ICE agents right now that are true for All Cops
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i wrote about dissociation, reading as comfort, vice and self obliteration during times of horror, and also about reading exclusively about gay love for like. a year
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My Own Inner Elba
Let me start by saying that the news is incredibly awful. I’m very aware of this, in the way you’re aware of, say, a ninety-seven degree day with one hundred...
buttondown.com
January 9, 2026 at 7:15 PM
i wrote about dissociation, reading as comfort, vice and self obliteration during times of horror, and also about reading exclusively about gay love for like. a year
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
It’s 48 degrees, sunny, and it’s my first time back at the pool this year. I have to get out of my warm car first tho 🥹
January 9, 2026 at 4:33 PM
It’s 48 degrees, sunny, and it’s my first time back at the pool this year. I have to get out of my warm car first tho 🥹
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'I started a journal about journals to find others who keep records about their life...the sorts typically going unseen' or only postdeath by few archivists+researchers. 'Collects+explores what our choice to keep a more specific log, & the chosen subject of that log, says about us+our environments'
Of interest to data embodiment+viz friends: "Do you keep a log of every time you've eaten an orange, have a list of every meal someone has cooked for you, or track your personal restaurant rankings in a spreadsheet? Consider submitting your journal practice for publication" in Journal Journal
Journal Journal
journal journal is a journal about journal entries
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January 9, 2026 at 4:41 AM
'I started a journal about journals to find others who keep records about their life...the sorts typically going unseen' or only postdeath by few archivists+researchers. 'Collects+explores what our choice to keep a more specific log, & the chosen subject of that log, says about us+our environments'
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*whispers* The best free resource in Los Angeles? An @lapubliclibrary.bsky.social library card 📚✨
With a library card, you get access to WiFi, 3D printing tools, Adobe Creative Cloud, recording studios, legal help, student tutoring, and more. All for free.
🎥: @marinamasako.bsky.social
With a library card, you get access to WiFi, 3D printing tools, Adobe Creative Cloud, recording studios, legal help, student tutoring, and more. All for free.
🎥: @marinamasako.bsky.social
January 8, 2026 at 8:36 PM
*whispers* The best free resource in Los Angeles? An @lapubliclibrary.bsky.social library card 📚✨
With a library card, you get access to WiFi, 3D printing tools, Adobe Creative Cloud, recording studios, legal help, student tutoring, and more. All for free.
🎥: @marinamasako.bsky.social
With a library card, you get access to WiFi, 3D printing tools, Adobe Creative Cloud, recording studios, legal help, student tutoring, and more. All for free.
🎥: @marinamasako.bsky.social
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LA continues to protest against ICE in our city and beyond. About 150 people went to Placita Olvera yesterday to mourn Renee Nicole Good and Keith Porter of Northridge, who were both shot and killed by ICE agents roughly a week apart.
📹: @papayathemariah.bsky.social
📹: @papayathemariah.bsky.social
January 8, 2026 at 6:47 PM
LA continues to protest against ICE in our city and beyond. About 150 people went to Placita Olvera yesterday to mourn Renee Nicole Good and Keith Porter of Northridge, who were both shot and killed by ICE agents roughly a week apart.
📹: @papayathemariah.bsky.social
📹: @papayathemariah.bsky.social
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nicole is the second person murdered by ICE this year. keith porter was shot by an ICE agent on new year’s eve, ICE is claiming self defense in this case, too. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Man killed by off-duty ICE agent in Northridge identified by community; vigil Sunday
Activists and social media identify Keith 'Pooter' Porter as the man shot and killed by an off-duty ICE agent in Northridge on New Year’s Eve. Black Lives Matter L.A. has scheduled a Sunday vigil to h...
www.latimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 8:24 PM
nicole is the second person murdered by ICE this year. keith porter was shot by an ICE agent on new year’s eve, ICE is claiming self defense in this case, too. www.latimes.com/california/s...
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his name is Jonathan Ross and he shouldn't get a good night's sleep for the rest of his life www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...
Star Tribune identifies ICE agent who fatally shot woman in Minneapolis
Jonathan Ross was dragged in a separate incident last year by a fleeing driver, according to court records.
www.startribune.com
January 8, 2026 at 7:09 PM
his name is Jonathan Ross and he shouldn't get a good night's sleep for the rest of his life www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...
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Good morning. I'd like to invite anyone who is interested to make a small gesture of kindness today. It's up to you to decide what that can be. The key is for you to act on the idea. With so much out of our control, we can choose how to be with each other today and every day.
January 8, 2026 at 11:36 AM
Good morning. I'd like to invite anyone who is interested to make a small gesture of kindness today. It's up to you to decide what that can be. The key is for you to act on the idea. With so much out of our control, we can choose how to be with each other today and every day.
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For people who have not yet had ICE descend on their city, I think it’s hard to convey how all-encompassing their presence is. You constantly hear about the neighbors they’ve taken, get texts about where not to go that day, see signs from where people were taken, hear whistles from down your block.
ICE killed a member of our community today. ICE showed up at my kid’s daycare today. ICE is bragging about the number of families they’ve torn apart in a matter of days, and promising that their campaign of terror isn’t done.
January 7, 2026 at 11:15 PM
For people who have not yet had ICE descend on their city, I think it’s hard to convey how all-encompassing their presence is. You constantly hear about the neighbors they’ve taken, get texts about where not to go that day, see signs from where people were taken, hear whistles from down your block.
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Rally in Los Angeles tomorrow (Thu) at 5pm in solidarity with Minneapolis.
January 8, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Rally in Los Angeles tomorrow (Thu) at 5pm in solidarity with Minneapolis.
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Federal immigration agents have now shot and killed multiple people since Trump took office a year ago. Today alone marks the second deadly ICE shooting IN A WEEK. An off-duty shot and killed a 43-year-old father in CA on Dec. 31.
Emotional vigil held for man killed by off-duty ICE agent on New Year's Eve
Sunday evening, a crowd of about 50 gathered at the Village Pointe apartment complex in Northridge to grieve Keith Porter Jr., who was fatally shot on New Year's Eve by an off-duty ICE agent.
www.latimes.com
January 7, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Federal immigration agents have now shot and killed multiple people since Trump took office a year ago. Today alone marks the second deadly ICE shooting IN A WEEK. An off-duty shot and killed a 43-year-old father in CA on Dec. 31.
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Renee Nicole Good
January 7, 2026 at 11:27 PM
Renee Nicole Good
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I'm sorry, but I just think it's very telling when we differentiate between ICE's killing of American citizens versus undocumented immigrants. And I'm seeing that a lot right now.
January 7, 2026 at 10:13 PM
I'm sorry, but I just think it's very telling when we differentiate between ICE's killing of American citizens versus undocumented immigrants. And I'm seeing that a lot right now.