Mekita Rivas

Last year, I had the wonderful opportunity to be an editorial consultant at @MalalaFund. A big project was our annual report, which I’ve learned has been nominated for a Webby! Pretty exciting. Take a look and give our team a vote! https://t.co/VQFLmyIfTY

Y’all came through! Story filed. Off to find a tequila martini.

Mekita Rivas @MekitaRivas

For a story, I’m urgently looking for your very best tequila drink recipes. Bonus points if you’ve got photos! DMs open.

For a story, I’m urgently looking for your very best tequila drink recipes. Bonus points if you’ve got photos! DMs open.

There are few greater compliments to me, as a journalist, than when someone I’m interviewing says, “I’ve never told anyone that” or “I’ve never opened up like this” — it’s an honor to be entrusted with people’s innermost stories.

Idk who needs to hear this but when encountering an ethnically ambiguous person, the first words out of your mouth do not have to be “where are you from?” and/or “what are you?” In fact, if you’re a complete stranger, maybe reconsider asking those questions at all.

My inbox has so many invites to random coachella events “if I happen to be there” (lol) but no actual press trip invites to the festival. Something’s not adding up!

RT @NatlParkService: Me reappearing in people’s lives after inexplicably disappearing for several months… https://t.co/IN4lamDaXL

RT @DrFrankRoberts: “You've got to tell the world how to treat you. If the world tells YOU how you are going to be treated, you are in trou…

Just hanging out on a rooftop in NYC all by myself, staring at the skyline, reveling in the fact that I somehow made it from an immigrant home in Nebraska to this very spot. Making my wildest fucking dreams come true. Wow. It hasn’t been easy but I’m in awe of my life.

Please be kind and patient with people. What you see online is only a fraction of the whole story. Oftentimes, their real world—their actual life, the one beyond screens—could be in peril or, worse, completely falling apart. Speaking from experience.

Weekends are simply not long enough to rest, have fun/down time, AND be productive.

Why give the people choreography when you can give them cinema? This woman was floating who knows how many feet up in the air on literal plexiglass while pregnant (!!!). Critics to the left, please. https://t.co/ceDvt0Moca

The mid-performance makeup check came courtesy of the Fenty Beauty Invisimatte Instant Setting + Blotting Powder, the brand confirms. https://t.co/535AlNr1Q6

I loved that there were no guest performances. She doesn’t need them. She’s Rihanna.

I’m so grateful I grew up during the internet’s infancy. Dial-up modems, AIM/MSN messenger, Xanga, GeoCities, limewire, Nokia 3310s, eBay’s early days (when you still paid sellers via check/money order)…it really *was* a time to be alive. And we’ll never have it that good again.

When something good happens to you, quickly followed by something bad, how do you not allow the bad to completely overshadow the good? What is the trick?

Learning the hard way that when you say yes to everything and everyone else, that means saying no to yourself. And wanting to not let anybody else down turns into always letting yourself down.