Cheat Work Thursday

Chances are, your blood is boiling watching this four-part series: the harrowing account of Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, Antron McCray, Yusef Salaam and Korey Wise's wrongful convictions and sentences. The five teens, all Black and Brown, ages 14 to 16 in 1989, spent the next 6 to 13 years of their lives in prison for a crime they did not do -- raping and assaulting Trisha Meili almost to death while she was jogging one night in Central Park. Meili was in coma for 12 days from the injury and had no memory of what happened to her. The series opens with the last hours before the lives of the boys derailed to a horrifying direction. It starts with a normal evening with their family and friends, then they decide to run around with a crowd of other teenagers in Central Park. What follows is one night at the police station for some of them while the police are rounding up young men of colour, looking for witnesses and suspects for the attacks on Meili and several other vic...

I promised to read one book every week this year. Although I've not been able to blog each of them, I’m doing good so far with the reading 🥳. And the key to that is by reading books that I like. If the rules were “they have to include various genres — politics, biography, and depressing storylines — and you have to read them regardless of whether you can connect with the writing style," I’d probably still be at book #3 right now. So Sarina Bowen and Elle Kennedy were collaborating again and came out with Top Secret earlier this year, and it's the usual Bowen-Kennedy fun book: new adult, romance. It’s the story of Keaton and Luke, who match on a hookup app Kink anonymously when Keaton is looking for someone to have a threesome with for his girlfriend’s birthday, which is her request. Yeah. What the two don’t know, however, they already know each other in real life, being next-door neighbours in a frat house. And in real life, they aren't exactly friends. Keaton...

I think DKNY PR Girl was one of the best things that ever existed on Twitter. It was a fresh, smart use of a relatable, playful and inspirational character to represent a brand. I was a huge fan of the illustrations made for the character, done by Dallas Shaw. It's a shame its time on Twitter was cut short. Leave Your Mark was written by Aliza Licht, the person behind the character. It's filled with tons of practical pointers -- from writing a resume when you have no work experience, to ways to communicate with your boss when things are tricky at work -- thus a super useful read, especially if you are just starting out. And even if you're already years into your job, there are plenty of reminders of what to do or not to do, or what to do next , too. I wish I'd been warned of some of those mistakes before I made them myself. This is not a book about building a brand on social media, though, if you are grabbing it because of DKNY PR Girl, hoping to learn the tri...