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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

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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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