genna rivieccio (code name: semtex) has no idea what she's doing and is pretty sure everyone else does despite what they claim. Her work has appeared on PopMatters, Gothamist (RIP), The Pride la, Brooklyn Magazine, Queen Mob's Teahouse, Those That This, The Toast, and Visceral Brooklyn, among others. She runs a quarterly literary magazine called The Opiate, alive and kicking since 2015. Which is more than she can say for herself, as she might have died sometime in 2012 when the apocalypse happened and we chose to ignore it.
IT’S NOT A “WEIRD HEAD,” IT’S A TESTA DI MORO
In the wake of season two of The White Lotus, a surge of interest in buying the “weird heads” featured in the show has found Semtex fuming over the collective inability to call the décor by its correct name—and how that inability is a microaggressive form of othering....
