Julianne Escobedo Shepherd's discussions

There are many different people who work at Jezebel, and you can search my entire history here and elsewhere: I have never been a fan of Taylor. Read more

This probably has a lot to do with CL kind of breaking off and tryna go solo in States, no? Read more

TRL was still on! I CAN VOUCH BECAUSE I WORKED THERE. Read more

the oil pulling one kills me because HEY GUYS IT’S BEEN AROUND FOR A THOUSAND YEARS IT’S NOT A BIG DEAL Read more

I understand. Read more

Da Silvano, the place she dines in Manhattan most often (and often alone), is actually not that expensive as bougie NYC eateries go. You could get a decent dinner there for $20 (for one), which is roughly three Chipotles. Read more

Rihanna did wear kitten heels a single time!

Wait, I don’t know about the transphobia... what? Read more

She didn’t do the red carpet and there weren’t any good pics of her dress in our Getty subscription model but you’re right, I should have posted one anyway! Read more

Can’t believe you cast a white dog..... Read more

What is the “Jez opinion pendulum” Read more

And also let me clarify: musically, in the already pretty small community of working music critics in the US, there is an even smaller zone of music critics who are actively interested in current global/diasporic music. It’s fine that some people didn’t like it and I’m glad and understand as a person who reserves my… Read more

I should have linked to the reviews I meant (and I wasn’t even thinking about the review in Rolling Stone)—I’m not even talking about those who were critical of the music or the album, which is understandable and important, but people who maybe liked it but didn’t seem to understand the musical references or have the… Read more

My bf is Telugu and definitely has explained all of this to me—I don’t think the envy of cultural freedom in desi communities outside US is necessarily all that deep down. Also, he really likes London................... LOL Read more

Ha, she is in a different zone. Read more

The few South Asian music critics that got to review the album in publications generally liked it; here are a couple of those reviews, will link more when it’s not the start of my workday: Read more

Yes for sure. Read more

The main worst part about this is ascribing arbitrary meaning to an invented term (“fuckgirl”) based on a term she and most of the internet apparently doesn’t understand (“fuckboy”) that has been has been divorced from its origins (AAVE, specifically black rap culture) and warped into some catchall phrase for… Read more

I feel weird about it too as a D but not when I’m wearing a CAFTAN. TRY A CAFTAN. Read more

“The most comfortable I am is not wearing shoes and not wearing a bra and having a glass of wine in my hand” Read more