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True Care
intense, takes things personally, has never gotten over anything, writes well
By Alexa Yasmin Ferrer
· Launched 2 years ago
let me lurk in peace
True Care
Didion & Ferrer
On Joan Didion’s Miami and the Cuban Missile Crisis
Feb 9, 2025•Alexa Yasmin Ferrer
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Counterrevolutionary Epigenetics
He asks me how my novel is going and I ask him about the screenplay.
Feb 9•Alexa Yasmin Ferrer
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Delta Nine Induced Psychosis
Quién me aguanta?
Oct 23, 2025•Alexa Yasmin Ferrer
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Most Popular
To My Ex's Ex
Mar 21, 2025•Alexa Yasmin Ferrer
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Interior Mortification (Deseando Menos)
Dec 29, 2025•Alexa Yasmin Ferrer
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Poor little rich girl
Apr 8, 2025•Alexa Yasmin Ferrer
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Infinite Food Glitch
Oct 16, 2024•Alexa Yasmin Ferrer
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Mean Girls, Miami, and Me
Dec 9, 2024•Alexa Yasmin Ferrer
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Three Cats and a Tumor
Aug 6, 2024•Alexa Yasmin Ferrer
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Recent posts
Interior Mortification (Deseando Menos)
On restraint and repair
Dec 29, 2025•Alexa Yasmin Ferrer
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Poor little rich girl
Edie Sedgwick, the cost of being a muse, and fame thirsty women haters like Andy Warhol
Apr 8, 2025•Alexa Yasmin Ferrer
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Senior Year
It’s hard to write when there’s nothing to complain about.
May 20•Alexa Yasmin Ferrer
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Your Miami is so plastic and mine is so romantic
Mine is made of Cuban tile
Apr 5•Alexa Yasmin Ferrer
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A Photo Album
1996, deliberately
Feb 1•Alexa Yasmin Ferrer
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On Fasting
Interior Mortification, Part II
Jan 30•Alexa Yasmin Ferrer
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Intro to Cuban Cinema
In lieu of a gift guide: ten films to understand and misunderstand post-Revolutionary Cuba
Nov 10, 2025•Alexa Yasmin Ferrer
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Stop unfollowing your ops
On The Importance of Enemies
Oct 6, 2025•Alexa Yasmin Ferrer
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