Author Luna Moore Latorre

Things I Love:

1. Nature! Especially if it involves hiking or swimming on a warm, sunny day. My perfect day is definitely in the mountains or at the beach.
2. Movies that are so bad they’re good. Bride of Chucky. Zombeavers. Santa Jaws. If it’s objectively ridiculous, I’ve seen it and cackled the ENTIRE time. I love shock value. I love egregious silliness. I’m never too serious or too dignified to laugh uncontrollably at a shark in a Santa hat who came to life from a kid’s comic book and then started eating everybody in the marina who reminded him of Christmas.
3. Yoga and Basketball. Basketball is chocolate for my ADHD. Yoga is spinach for my ADHD. Spinach and Chocolate are both among my favorite foods, but for very different reasons. I’m also insanely bad at basketball because I’m 4’11.” But I have the cockiness of a 6’4″ man, so I’m micro-dosing humility by intentionally doing things I suck at. It’s character building.
4. Making people laugh. It’s for sure one of the best parts of being alive. If I’m not joking around, something has gone terribly wrong.
5. The sheer flow state of a long walk. My friends make fun of me because I’m always the one to say, “It’s only 90 minutes there and 90 minutes back, which is only 3 hours of walking. We don’t even need to drive,” and they think I’m joking, but I’m being completely serious. I am so naturally energetic that I gotta be walked 3 times a day like the beloved family golden retriever.
6. One more (I love way too many things): listening to music. I cannot remember the last time I got through an entire day WITHOUT Spotify. You need to understand that I was raised by a Latina mom (I can easily sleep through a cumbia or mariachi CD and raucous laughter) and a classic rock junkie dad–if there WASN’T music blaring in the living room, if my parents weren’t lovingly bickering about whose CD was getting played, something was UP.

Things I Hate:

1. Being rushed in a bookstore. Don’t come with me if you’re not prepared to stay a minimum of an hour, make huge book stacks together, discuss the pros and cons of each book, and then help each other pick two or three to actually buy.
2. COMPLETELY unnecessary uncertainty. “Do you want to go to a blind movie at Regal, where you don’t know what movie you’re seeing until it starts?” Fuck no. “We’ll let you know LATER when your package is expected to arrive.” UGH. “Let’s play it by ear.” Let’s not. (But also, I am working on being more patient).
3. The idea that not caring about anything or anyone makes you intellectually superior. I HATED The Stranger by Albert Camus for this very reason. Who wouldn’t cry at their mom’s funeral?! I’ve cried because the full moon one night in July made me realize that she has witnessed the lives of every single person who has ever lived. Apathy SICKENS me.
4. The shocking, appalling decline in literacy among Gen Alpha due to ChatGPT. These kids are COOKED. They don’t even read novels from front to back in English class anymore. They don’t know how to write an essay. They can’t hold a conversation for more than five minutes. Nobody seems as stressed out about this as I am. The ability to fully comprehend and articulate thought is a skill that is ESSENTIAL to experiencing a good life. What is the world going to look like a decade from now, when these kids have become men and women, when they used ChatGPT to get through medical school and lack the attention span to read even a single book a year?

Causes That Matter to Me: Protecting Mother Earth, Promoting Literacy, Women’s Liberation, Anti-racism, LGBTQ Rights, Support for the Arts, Veganism/Animal Rights, and more.

Least Surprising Fun Fact of All Time: I’m really into astrology, and 90% of my birth chart is in Leo, Taurus, and Sagittarius. If you don’t speak Gen Z, that means absolutely nothing to you. If you do speak Gen Z, you don’t even need to Google the positive and negative stereotypes of each of those signs to know that they clock me.

Actually Surprising Fun Fact: I have never eaten an animal in my life, at least, not on purpose (you can’t trust these shady restaurants not to slip you chicken broth once in a blue moon). My parents have been together for 40 years and went vegetarian together at the start of their relationship, then raised my brothers and me vegetarian from birth. Then, about 4 years ago, I switched over to being vegan and gave up dairy and eggs. Yes, I still eat a lot of protein (as if my flawless hair and skin didn’t make that obvious), but I also have the bloodwork to back up that claim.