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Victoria Patterson

@vpatterson1269

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 City of Angels
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Joined May 2014
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Knock LA (@KnockDotLA) profile pictureKnock LA@KnockDotLA20 Jan 2022
Despite bold promises from the state to address hate crimes and hold police accountable, cities like South Pasadena are still waiting for help. knock-la.com/california-atto…

OP-ED: South Pasadena Police Department: A Culture White Supremacy - Knock LA

There is a well-documented culture of bias and white supremacy within the ranks of the South Pasadena Police Department.

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@TheStoryPrize13 Jan 2025
🚨 THE STORY PRIZE FINALISTS ARE HERE!🚨 Congrats to Fiona McFarlane, @rubenwrites, and @JezewskaJ @fsgbooks @MarinerBooks @andothertweets
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@jonfavs8 Jan 2025
It'd be so cool to have a platform where you could just find helpful reporting and emergency information without stumbling over thousands of posts from people who see a devastating fire as an opportunity to share their half-baked political takes
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@AltaJournal22 Dec 2024
L.A. writer @vpatterson1269 shares the unlikeliest of friendships that bloomed in the bowels of the Huntington Library. altaonline.com/books/a600130…

Secret Lives Inside the Huntington Library

An L.A. writer forms the unlikeliest of friendships in the bowels of the Huntington Library.

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New York Times Arts
@nytimesarts12 Dec 2024
Angry, undulating, hallucinatory — the drawings of the 1970s activist Peter Carr get an overdue exhibition outside Los Angeles. nyti.ms/4feHs8V
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Los Angeles Times
@latimes30 Nov 2024
Detective accused of giving Nazi-like salute resigns from South Pasadena Police Department latimes.com/california/story…
Detective accused of giving Nazi-like salute resigns from South Pasadena Police Department

Detective accused of giving Nazi-like salute resigns from South Pasadena Police Department

Mark Lillienfeld was previously barred from rehire at the Sheriff's Department over the 2023 training incident.

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Phil 🆓🌍🧩🎲@Phil_Free_20 Oct 2024
Danzy Senna’s Trick Mirror newrepublic.com/article/1854…
Danzy Senna’s Trick Mirror

Danzy Senna’s Trick Mirror

In “Colored Television,” identity politics is as much a playground as a battleground.

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Riverhead Books
@riverheadbooks9 Sep 2024
Don’t miss this conversation on @nprfreshair with Terry Gross and Danzy Senna, author of the hilarious and biting COLORED TELEVISION. npr.org/2024/09/03/nx-s1-509…
'I want to write myself into existence,' says 'Colored Television' author

'I want to write myself into existence,' says 'Colored Television' author

Danzy Senna was born in 1970, just a few years after Loving v. Virginia legalized interracial marriage. “Just merely existing as a family was a radical statement at that time,” she says.

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California Book Club@CalBookClub9 Sep 2024
"Danzy Senna is a risk-taker. Of all the many things I admire about her writing, this may be what I appreciate most." Read more of David Ulin's thoughts on "Colored Television" below. altaonline.com/california-bo…
Why You Should Read This: ‘Colored Television’

Why You Should Read This: ‘Colored Television’

Danzy Senna’s forthcoming novel is the California Book Club’s September 2024 selection.

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Danzy Senna Is Amused by Your Mixed Feelings

Danzy Senna Is Amused by Your Mixed Feelings

For decades, the novelist has found humor in the ever-changing ways that biracial people are questioned, fetishized, or ignored in America.

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With 'Colored Television,' Danzy Senna gives us a laugh-out-loud cultural critique latimes.com/opinion/story/20…
With 'Colored Television,' Danzy Senna gives us a laugh-out-loud cultural critique

With 'Colored Television,' Danzy Senna gives us a laugh-out-loud cultural critique

Humor mixes with a deep understanding of American foibles and the human heart to produce a riveting novel of ideas.

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Some Consider Being Biracial a ‘Predicament.’ Danzy Senna Thinks It’s Hilarious. nytimes.com/2024/09/01/books…
Some Consider Being Biracial a ‘Predicament.’ Danzy Senna Thinks It’s Hilarious. (Published 2024)

Some Consider Being Biracial a ‘Predicament.’ Danzy Senna Thinks It’s Hilarious. (Published 2024)

Senna, who is mixed-race, has made a career satirizing the lives of characters like her. Her new novel takes elements from her history and twists them to the extreme.

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"Whose voice was that now screaming?" For LARB Quarterly, no. 42: Gossip, Veronica Gonzalez Peña (@rockypointpress) writes a new story on disappearing. lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
Notes on Disappearing: A Life in Fragments | Los Angeles Review of Books

Notes on Disappearing: A Life in Fragments | Los Angeles Review of Books

Veronica Gonzalez Peña explores fragmented memories of a childhood, in light of the 2014 murder of 43 Mexican students, in a story from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”

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Six years ago today Vanessa Marquez was shot and killed by South Pasadena Police. #VanessaMarquez
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Subversion of the Tragic Mulatto in ‘Colored Television’ altaonline.com/california-bo…
Danzy Senna‘s Dark Tragicomedies

Danzy Senna‘s Dark Tragicomedies

Colored Television, the California Book Club’s September selection, explores and interrogates mixed-race identity, anti-Black structures, class aspirations, and conspicuous consumption in America.

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Alta Journal
@AltaJournal16 Aug 2024
L.A. writer @vpatterson1269 shares the unlikeliest of friendships that bloomed in the bowels of the Huntington Library. altaonline.com/books/a600130…

Secret Lives Inside the Huntington Library

An L.A. writer forms the unlikeliest of friendships in the bowels of the Huntington Library.

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Collin Reischman@CMReischman31 Jul 2024
Well now we know why Donald Trump won’t debate Kamala. Turns out his kryptonite is “talking to black women”
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Brian Schatz
@brianschatz31 Jul 2024
Just a reminder that “racist” is often more succinct and accurate than “racially charged.”
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The Cruel Genius of Robert Plunket’s Gay Satires thenation.com/article/cultur…

The Cruel Genius of Robert Plunket’s Gay Satires

His 1992 novel Love Junkie might be one of the tragicomic classics of the AIDS era.

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Eli McCann@EliMcCann21 Jul 2024
Wild to see a man willingly give up power in order to defeat a man who tried to overthrow the government to retain power.
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Sarah Longwell
@SarahLongwell2521 Jul 2024
Donald Trump is too old, too deranged, too corrupt, too fundamentally anti-America to lead this country again.
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