Irina Gonzalez

Freelance writer & editor | Latinx journalist | Moscow Chica 🇷🇺🇨🇺🇺🇸

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    The lesson I learned about myself on my first Valentine’s Day with a partner

    February 14, 2017

    Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. Valentine’s Day isn’t for everyone.  It’s a very specific, sort-of-made-up holiday that tends to favor those in love and fans of cheesy gestures of affection.  I have never in my life been one of those people. Sure, I was a self-admitted hopeless romantic but I usually kept my romanticism where it belonged: cheesy boy-meets-girl rom-coms. I’m not someone who has been counting down the days until a cute boy puts a ring on it with a secret wedding planner scrapbook under my bed since I was 16, nor did I want to be. Which is why it might seem fitting to…

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    Thoughts on turning 31… and the
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    March 23, 2017

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    July 10, 2016

    Why do we still tell women that their lives begin when they get married?

    December 27, 2017
  • Health,  Relationships

    How my boyfriend got me to eat healthy again (and visa versa)

    August 19, 2016

    Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. Sometimes it takes falling in love to remind you of some of the things that are important to you. For me, that something was healthy eating. I have quite a complicated relationship with food. After a lifetime of being overweight, losing 90 pounds with Weight Watchers in college, regaining most of it shortly after and finally getting a gastric bypass in 2009, I’m finally settled at a weight that I am happy and comfortable in. Unlike many people who have had weight loss surgery, I’ve been able to maintain (most of) my 100 pound weight loss. I did it largely thanks to embracing…

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    January 11, 2016

    The 5 snacks I absolutely LOVED during Whole30

    July 11, 2016
  • Relationships

    Why is it so hard for us to accept true generosity when we date?

    August 9, 2016

    Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. I wrote this piece in a bout of excitement, elation, love, wonder, guilt and generally feeling both really happy and a little down on myself. It’s been a month and a half since that moment, but this still rings true. Enjoy! Tonight, as I lay in his arms, I asked my boyfriend if it was okay for me to get out of bed because I was inspired to write – inspired by the love that we share, the special gift that he shared with me that evening and the constant flow of kindness I experience from him. “Of course,” he immediately…

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    A year ago, I was single, unemployed, homeless, broke, fat and drunk

    April 24, 2017

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    May 31, 2017
  • Relationships

    How early is it TOO EARLY to travel in a (fairly new) relationship?

    July 13, 2016

    Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. After dating for just over two months, Adam and I made a pretty monumental decision: we sent in our applications to get our passports renewed. You see, mine was due to expire and his had already been expired. I can’t quire remember exactly when in our relationship we had initially talked about it, but by the time we got there it seemed like the most natural thing. So one Saturday a couple of weeks ago, we went to the local CVS to take our passport photos. I had already filled out both applications, we signed them and away they went! I…

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    The reality of dating as a bisexual Latina

    January 11, 2017

    It’s been a year since the start of my rom-com love story

    May 3, 2017

    2016 was an exceptionally happy year for me (and I’m not afraid to admit it)

    December 31, 2016
  • Relationships

    My life turned into a rom-com cliché and I’m okay with it

    July 3, 2016

    Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. I have a confession to make. Just over two months ago, I was single AF. Like seriously… I haven’t been in a serious relationship since 2011. Not for a lack of trying, necessarily, but it just hasn’t been in the cards for me lately. I’ve dated – a LOT, in fact – but with a few notable exceptions, I haven’t really found anyone that I wanted to spend more than a couple of evenings with. The guys were always pleasant enough. Unlike most of my fellow single females in New York City, I never had any insane dating stories. I always joked that it…

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    September 27, 2016

Hello! I’m Irina Gonzalez, a freelance writer, editor, and Latinx journalist based in Fort Myers, Florida.

I’m the News Editor at 21Ninety, a regular contributor at HipLatina, and a freelance writer focusing on food, healthy living, relationships, travel, and Latinx issues.

When I’m not working on my book about growing up Russian & Cuban, I’m probably reading an audiobook or cuddling with my (new) husband and our attention-loving kitties & pup.

Want to get in touch? Email me!

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