storyteller & producer for audio, video, and socials
The Italy Edit
There’s a lot to love about Puglia’s prettiest coastal town.
The Italy Edit
The best adventures lie off the beaten path.
Columbia News Service
On April 8, New Yorkers will wear their funky special glasses, and maybe get some popcorn as they prepare to look skyward as the moon swallows the sun in a total solar eclipse. But these are markers of modern life. And eclipses come with centuries-old traditions.
In conversation with educator Perry Ground, Giulia Leo brings us an ancient eclipse story from the Haudenosaunee people, a Native American Confederacy that Ground is part of and whose traditional lands span over what some of us now call New York State.
Columbia News Service
Elizabeth Roldan’s alarm goes off at 7:45 every morning in her studio apartment in Harlem. By 8, she has swallowed 500 milligrams of Lamictal and another 300 of Keppra.
Roldan has been on these anticonvulsants since Christmas day, 2003, when she had her first tonic-clonic (grand mal) seizure at age 21. One moment she was sitting at the dining table celebrating with her family in New Jersey, the next she was in the hospital, receiving a diagnosis of epilepsy.
Columbia News Service
Today, the range of options for people who prefer to listen to their stories – including erotica – rather than read them, spans a wide spectrum. And, efforts are underway to make the genre both safer and more ethical.
One category, smut, refers to stories that include explicit sexual content. The term used to apply primarily to the written world, from “spicy” books to fanfiction, but things have changed. Now, smut can be delivered directly to ears in the form of audio erotica.
Uptown Radio
April 19th is tomorrow, and that means…at midnight tonight…Swifties everywhere will be obsessively listening for easter eggs, narrative threads, and allusions hidden in the lyrics. After all, Swift has declared herself the chair of the tortured poets department. But Giulia Leo, a devoted Swiftie herself, started to wonder: Does this mean Taylor Swift’s music is actually poetry?
Uptown Radio
Flaco, the owl who escaped from the Central Park Zoo last year, died in February. In Flaco’s 13 months of freedom, his story of survival captivated a lot of people. Since Flaco’s death, New Yorkers have come up with all sorts of ways to commemorate the bird.Some are so devoted to keeping the memory of Flaco alive they decided to get a reminder of him permanently inked on their skin. Giulia Leo attended the hottest — and arguably cutest — tattoo event of the season.
Uptown Radio
Sometimes we think about those we look up to as gods. Giulia Leo always saw her Italian grandmother as one. But what happens when your gods turn out not to be perfect?
Uptown Radio
Today in Brooklyn was the Dolce e Salato fest, a celebration of Italy’s culinary art. But one big problem had everyone at the event worried. Gulia Leo has more.
The Matthew
In art, women often fall victim to a binary representation that sees them as either angels or monsters. In Ana Lily Amirpour’s film masterpiece, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014), the main character (played by a wonderful Sheila Vand) is a girl with no name who might just as well be both.
The Matthew
Carolina Miller is a second year student majoring in International Relations and Legal Studies at John Cabot. She is actively involved with the Black Lives Matter and Feminist movements and works with Black Lives Matter Rome, Neri Italiani-Black Italians (NIBI), and Women’s March Rome (WMR). A few days ago, Carolina and I grabbed a virtual coffee from the comfort of our respective houses. As we sipped on our hot drinks, we talked activism, social media, modeling, and fashion.