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Andrea González-Ramírez
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Puertorriqueña • Senior Writer at The Cut + New York Magazine covering gender, abortion, and systems of power • Contact me at andrea.gonzalez@voxmedia.com + andreagonram.43 on Signal 🌺

Read my work: https://www.thecut.com/author/andrea-gonzalez-ramirez/
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This level of loserdom is actually incredible lmao. Siempre en el lloripari porque les falta sazón, batería y reggaetón 😌
Screenshot from a Turning Point USA tweet announcing their "The All American Halftime Show" for the 2026 Super Bowl
October 9, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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*taps the sign*

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Excerpt from a The Cut piece that reads: "But Cuomo’s campaign to return to power shouldn’t have happened in the first place. He resigned from office in August 2021 after finding himself on the brink of impeachment, following a state investigation that found he had sexually harassed 11 women. Cuomo’s misconduct included “unwelcome and nonconsensual touching,” such as butt grabbing and out-of-the-blue kisses, as well as making sexually “suggestive” comments to subordinates and generally creating a “hostile work environment for women,” according to state investigators. Last year, a settlement agreement between the New York State Executive Chamber and the U.S. Department of Justice stated that Cuomo had sexually harassed at least 13 former and current state employees while in power, with his senior staff ignoring his conduct and retaliating against some of his accusers. While in his resignation speech, Cuomo claimed to “accept full responsibility for my actions,” he has since denied the allegations against him. Throughout his mayoral campaign, he dismissed the findings of the investigations into his conduct as politically motivated." Excerpt from a The Cut piece that reads: "That any current or former Democratic leader would support Cuomo after state and federal investigations detailed evidence of his alleged sexual misconduct — after he spent nearly $20 million in taxpayer money to drag his accusers into a lengthy legal battle, after he requested those accusers’ gynecological records and other private information, and after he threatened to expose the identity of one of them who is protected by a confidentiality order — was a shameful display of political opportunism. It was also a betrayal of a constituency the party claims to champion. Democrats have purported to support victims of sexual misconduct and violence, casting themselves as having the moral high ground over a Republican Party that has gladly elevated alleged abusers. But the Democratic officials who supported Cuomo’s bid have shown they’re willing to sell out survivors in order to prevent a new generation of leaders from emerging."
July 14, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Come for this cursed anecdote, stay for Carter's thoughts about porn, bodily autonomy, and why what happens with young people is a harbinger for everyone else in the country.

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Excerpt from a Q&A with Carter Sherman about her new book. It reads, "You’ve been reporting on gender and sexuality for years. What inspired you to write The Second Coming?" "I started thinking about this book in 2021. The Supreme Court had taken up the case that would end up being Dobbs, and everybody who worked in repro knew that Roe was on its way out. I was talking to a friend of mine who paid a lot of attention to the Supreme Court. She was telling me that, because she was worried about Roe disappearing, whenever she got close to having an orgasm with her partner, she would hear Brett Kavanaugh’s voice in her head." "Oh no." "It was not sexy, as you might imagine, and kind of threw a wrench into the whole having-an-orgasm thing. I thought, The end of Roe is probably coming. What does that mean for people’s sex lives? Are people thinking about this? I started reporting that question out, and what I found was that, generally, no, people were not thinking about how the end of Roe could impact their sex lives, because most people just didn’t believe that it could be overturned."
June 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Hi! You can disagree with our lede but in our view keeping her alive *was* against the family's wishes because as you said, the choice was stolen from them. We also included the following quote in the story. Thanks for reading.
Screenshot that reads: "Newkirk had previously said it had been torturous to see her daughter breathing while knowing she is no longer really there. She added that she often takes her grandson to visit Smith, and the child believes his mother is sleeping. “I’m not saying that we would have chosen to terminate her pregnancy,” she told 11Alive. “What I’m saying is that we should have had a choice.”
June 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Some examples, via yours truly 🫶🏻
Excerpt from The Cut's piece 100 Days, 100 Small Victories which reads: "Listening to actual trans people changed one man’s position on gender-affirming care. In March, Larry Jones arrived at the Wisconsin State Capitol to support a Republican-sponsored bill that would ban gender-affirming care for minors. The 85-year-old conservative didn’t plan to speak at the hearing. But after listening to trans teens and their families share their experiences, including a 14-year-old who said they’d struggled with suicidal ideation, for nearly eight hours, he put his name down to claim a turn. 'I was one of the critics that sat on the side and made the decision there was only two genders, so I got an education that was unbelievable,' he told lawmakers of what he heard that day. 'And I don’t know just exactly how to say this, but my perspective for people has changed. I’d like to apologize for being here.' Afterward, Jones told Wisconsin Watch that he now believes any decisions around gender-affirming care should be made by a minor, their families, and their doctor — not lawmakers. 'All of these kids, they deserve a chance to see where they belong,' he added. — Andrea González-Ramírez" Excerpt from a The Cut piece which reads: "Civic Match is helping laid-off federal workers stay in public service. When a real-estate specialist position opened up at the General Services Administration last fall, Eva leaped at the opportunity to apply. Eva, who’d immigrated to the U.S. from Bangladesh in the mid-2000s, always wanted to give back to her adopted country by joining the federal government. Within two months, she had an offer in hand, packed up her life in Georgia, and went to work at a GSA office in Missouri. “Everything worked out just like magic,” she says. Eva was a few months into that job when the Trump administration began laying off probationary workers like her in mid-February. Losing the position was crushing, but then Eva found out in the news about Civic Match, a free platform created by the nonprofit Work for America that connects public servants with new jobs in city and state governments. “This is an area that has been desperate for talent for the last several years,” says Caitlin Lewis, Work for America’s executive director. The program gained new urgency in the aftermath of the mass layoffs: Lewis says that about 38 percent of Civic Match’s current users have been let go by the Trump administration. And those workers are incredibly valuable, she notes. “They’ve run billion-dollar programs. They’ve helped to manage emergencies. They’ve delivered services that keep our communities running.” And despite all of the chaos and confusion of the past 100 days, they want to keep serving the public. A recent survey by Civic Match found that 76 percent of the laid-off federal workers using the platform are more likely to take a job in state and local government than they were before. Eva is one of them; sure, she could go back to working in commercial real estate like she was before. But that’s not what she wants. “That doesn’t give me the kind of honor and pride that I get from saying I work for the United States,” Eva says. “It is a calling.” Excerpt from a The Cut piece which reads: "Pride & Prejudice (briefly) returned to the big screen. Joe Wright’s 2005 adaptation of the Jane Austen novel rewired my brain as a teen, even though I only ever watched it on DVD. But! The film returned to theaters this month to celebrate its 20th anniversary, and I’m happy to report it was the perfect viewing experience. There were giggles during the infamous hand-flex scene and whispered quoting of “Excellent boiled potatoes” and having “no money and no prospects.” You could hear a pin drop while Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy danced, and we all let out big sighs when he trotted across the field in the early morning mist. I’d pay good money to repeat this experience at least once a month. — Andrea González-Ramírez"
April 30, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Glad to know it's not just my group chat lol
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Excerpt from a piece by Zak Cheney-Rice about Democrats' response to the Trump administration. It reads, "Last month, as Elon Musk’s malevolent influence on Donald Trump’s second term was coming into focus, a friend DM’ed me a clip of Chuck Schumer leading a protest against Musk’s efforts to access sensitive Treasury Department data. “We will win! We will win!” croaked the Senate minority leader, the crowd clearly reluctant to join this confused approximation of what impassioned resistance might look like. My friend wrote, “We’re all gonna die.”"
March 12, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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So grateful for the @nymagunion.bsky.social and everyone who supported us during this fight ♥️
Actress Sally Field as the titular character in the film Norma Rae, in the iconic scene where she holds a sign that reads, "union."
February 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Vader says you should support us because he’d like his mother and the rest of the @nymagunion.bsky.social to secure a contract! (More money and job protections = more treats for years to come.)
February 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Sign that reads: "Don't be lowbrow despicable. Stand with the New York Union by refusing to cross the digital picket line."
January 30, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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This week has lasted 800 years so here’s Vader
A black cat named Vader laying on the floor upside down
January 23, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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This an excellent review of Bad Bunny's latest album by @craigsj.bsky.social and I wanna add that Benito is just explicitly saying what many Puerto Ricans, in the island and the diaspora, believe to be true: Statehood is not liberation. It is the culmination of 500 years of colonization.
Snippet from Craig Jenkins' review of Bad Bunny's latest album Debí Tirar Más Fotos. It reads: "The soft, reflective songs populating the final quadrant of Fotos scan as statements of purpose. The title track’s rueful wish for more memories of deceased loved ones to look back on explains the attention to the documentation of culture in the lyrics and YouTube visualizers, which include passages by professor and Puerto Rico: A National History author Jorell Meléndez Badillo. Oppression devours and rewrites these stories. Fotos is an act of remembering what came before: “La Mudanza” interrupts the story of Bad Bunny’s parents’ romance to announce that he carries a flag everywhere he goes because people have died for the right, referencing the brutal 1948 Gag Law that sought to quiet ceaseless undercurrent of nationalist urges for liberation. Cataloguing both vitality and injustice highlights a people’s perseverance but also pines for a change in their living conditions. Fotos cuts to the chase in the shockingly forthright “Lo Que le Pasó a Hawaii.” The track implies that securing statehood for Puerto Rico might not just mean the dissolution of draconian laws that have hamstrung the local economy, and long-overdue access to constitutional rights denied to “unincorporated territories” of the United States, but also the development of real estate and the encroachment of White Lotus–type characters. The boy who hated to leave the island has become a man who doesn’t want to see its shoreline bought and sold again, ancient lands passing through new hands as they have for hundreds of years." Snippet from Craig Jenkins' review of Bad Bunny's latest album Debí Tirar Más Fotos. It reads: "It’s a prickly position: A popular musician with influence across continents is subtly undermining a political push dating back decades, suggesting that the solution to a long-standing and appalling second-class citizenship is, in fact, not to play ball for a seat at the table. It’s here that you see a flash of the brash character from the last album."
January 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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After two weeks my body is back in the States, but my brain is still in Scotland. If I owe you an email, you should get it sometime this week :)
Picture of Eilean Donan castle in the Scottish Highlands
December 9, 2024 at 3:46 PM