Layla W.

alum @lubrownwhite ✧ Journalism, Film, Business ✧ New York ✧ Esoteric Fan Girl (hyperfixater) ✧ Queer media enthusiast

[Layla W. @laylavision_]

@DawnKeetley Professor Keetley, I watched this on a whim with my mom in theaters yesterday. I can't stop thinking about it! Weirdly reminded me more of "Master" than PA. I keep wishing I was in your class viewing this one. Hope you remember me from Intro to Horror :)

[Layla W. @laylavision_]

@lehighlookaway what if i do

[Meredith Cummings @MereCummings]

🥜 During our last senior seminar class, brave @LUBrownWhite editors @laylavision_ and @BrendanRego1 were the first to volunteer to try a reminds-me-of-home Southern snack, peanuts in Coke! Reactions, in two videos, as the numbers of peanuts increased:

[The Brown and White @LUBrownWhite]

Today, it can be that simple, and apparently ‘cool,’ to get hooked on nicotine and tobacco.
https://t.co/pUtI80InGg

[The Brown and White @LUBrownWhite]

If you’re arresting people, you’re a governing entity. Right?
https://t.co/YRRdcECXFA

[Layla W. @laylavision_]

@LUBrownWhite THIS IS REALLY GOOD!!! WHO WROTE IT?!!?

[Layla W. @laylavision_]

@Steven_Mintz Amazing read. I'm a student and editorial editor for an "elite" college and this really resonated with me. We preach inclusivity and outcry for positive change, yet our newsroom itself reflects the same problems we see in the school at large.

[Layla W. @laylavision_]

Wonderfully put by @aden_barton. My school paper's editorial board also struggles with the fear of retaliation regarding controversial topics. Really great read.

[Layla W. @laylavision_]

"If students no longer feel comfortable using college as a training ground to test opinions and form views on controversial subjects, we will be far less prepared than we could be when we inevitably inherit today’s global issues."

https://t.co/J25HDsgd4A

[Layla W. @laylavision_]

@Komaniecki_R We need a team of elite academics and researchers working on this.

[Layla W. @laylavision_]

GO @StephKasulka! One of my favorite pieces I had the privilege of encouraging. You inspire me, and I can't wait to see you grow even more ❤️

[The Brown and White @LUBrownWhite]

However, when shopping with someone this past summer, I was shocked by an item I didn’t recognize on their shopping list: “reduced guilt mac and cheese.”
https://t.co/FC7bgvqjux

[Layla W. @laylavision_]

Every day I avoid writing an intellectual thirst tweet related to queer scripted media even though it's a school assignment because it takes the best of brain computing power

[Liana Secondino @LianaSecondino]

On Friday, @juliapcontino and I had a photoshoot for our feminist magazine, In My Birthday Suit. It was super successful with over 40 students who showed up and uplifted one another.

A huge thanks and warm hug to @laylavision_ for her amazing photography! Vol. 3 launches Dec. 5

[Layla W. @laylavision_]

"AI asks us to evaluate what it means to create" - @JeremyLittau

This whole email reflected YESTERDAY'S lesson! I took out my class notes to geek out a bit. What do you think of this!

[Layla W. @laylavision_]

Just got an email from @Medium addressing the use of ethical shortcomings of using unknown datasets to train generative AI.

"Our writing is helping power popular new technologies, but you haven't been compensated or credited. That doesn't feel right to us."

[Layla W. @laylavision_]

@Medium The Medium Writer Support newsletter poses two questions:

1. Allowing writers to opt-in to data usage for compensation?
2. Allow AI to summarize answers WITH credit? (in the likely case with Google Bard)

[Layla W. @laylavision_]

OBSESSED with the title of this piece. Makes me think of this article from my favorite site at @ThisIsTheTake

https://t.co/2uPa3ZwENX

[Daniel M. Lavery @daniel_m_lavery]

I think I finally figured out why homosexuality doesn't make any sense in All About Eve on about my fifteenth rewatch --
"All About Eve Is The Greatest-Ever Homophobic Gay Movie"
https://t.co/HVzUTkGQZO

[Layla W. @laylavision_]

@meatcutes Twice and Red Velvet would keep me POOR if I was still in the game like that 😭 Love them always though

[Layla W. @laylavision_]

"It was clear she was a style icon. Straight women talked about Shane, fell in love with her, saw her as a “gateway lesbian.”"

19 years later, this is still true. (Shane is the only reason we are still watching)

https://t.co/ITt37k1Q9w

[Layla W. @laylavision_]

My best friend and I are watching Showtime's #theLword for the first time. It's not great. But a 2000s time capsule of sapphic exploration is still a novelty. I'll use this thread to chronicle some of my many thoughts.