Liz’s Hot Takes Category
Liz’s Hot Takes: GlossiWEAR
Posted on July 17, 2019 Leave a Comment
Hits (few), misses (many), and some helpful suggestions for merch I’d actually buy.
International Women’s Day 2019
Posted on March 8, 2019 Leave a Comment
Listen to women. Be aware of who’s creating what you’re consuming. Don’t be afraid to unabashedly like feminine things. There is no one true way to be a woman, or to create and consume women’s content.
Liz’s Hot Takes: Movies Should Be Fun, A Han Solo Story
Posted on May 26, 2018 Leave a Comment
Solo didn’t suck. In fact, I think it was a good movie. I tried to keep things vague and the spoilers mild, but read at your own risk.
Liz’s Hot Takes: International Women’s Day 2018
Posted on March 8, 2018 2 Comments
It might be International Women’s Day today, but don’t wish me a happy one. I won’t be happy until we don’t need a day to recognize women because we should be doing it every damn day. Last week’s rant burned through most of I’d planned on blogging about today, but here are a few additional […]
Liz’s Hot Takes: US Quidditch Cup 10 Pool Ponderings
Posted on March 29, 2017 Leave a Comment
Okay, this might be a bit of a lukewarm take.
Fantastic Beasts and How to Escape with Them
Posted on November 17, 2016 Leave a Comment
I’m on the older edge of the Harry Potter generation. I didn’t pick up the series until the spring of 2000. I was in my freshman year of high school, Goblet of Fire was going to come out that summer, and I wanted to see what the hype was all about. By Christmas, I owned […]
Liz’s Hot Takes: The Right Kind of Immigrant
Posted on July 19, 2016 1 Comment
Sabato Jr. knowing what socialism is like me knowing what a dictatorship is b/c my parents grew up in the Estado Novo. #RNCinCLE — Elizabeth Barcelos (@lavender_ink) July 19, 2016 I was typing fast, feeling furious, and trying to fit within Twitter’s 140 character limit, so go easy on the grammar of that tweet. I […]
Liz’s Hot Takes: Ghostbusters
Posted on July 15, 2016 1 Comment
Okay, before you read any further: go see Ghostbusters. Go see it right now. It’s not even that this blog post is super-spoilery, though there are some spoilers. It’s less of a review of the film and more of a collection of my reactions before I go to bed and lose my fangirl zeal. We all […]
Barcelos Knows 