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"Luck of the Irish": The Disney Channel Original Movie that Solved Racism
Did you know that everyone in the world is different from everyone else? It’s 2001 and Disney Channel just discovered race.
“From Scratch”: (Re)Building John Mulaney
John Mulaney has had a tough few years.

The Cost of Being a Woman
As I watch Bridgerton edits on TikTok, I once again ask myself, “Why do they get to dress up and go to balls, while I have to dress up and go to frat parties?”

My Favorite Color is Pink…Is That Ok?
In the fall of my junior year of high school, the athletics program mandated an assembly for all the female athletes, stuffing our already cramped cafeteria full with apathetic girls.
Femininity Isn’t Changing. Our Language Is.
It is not lost on me, the irony of reading The Idiot as my clock reads midnight: I have work in 8 hours. But I am captivated.

13 Lines from Unsent Love Letters
Most love stories begin with a hello, ours began with a ransacked lunchbox, a stolen spork, and a touch of pyromania.

Confessions of a Shopaholic
Okay, I’ll be the first to admit that I am a material girl. Some might call me a shopaholic for thinking that a pair of Maison Margiela tabi ballerina heels—ones that would make my feet look like horse hoofs and allow me to trot around grounds—would bring me the most joy in the world, but it’s just the truth and I cannot lie.
Yes, I Take Screenshots of Shadow and Bone's Ben Barnes and Send Them to My Friends
I recently started watching the Netflix TV series Shadow and Bone over spring break, adapted from the seven novels that span Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse.

My Awakening with 'The Awakening'
Not long ago, I was a high school student who had assigned readings. Some novels I loved, some I hated, and many I’d forgotten about. However, four years after I read Kate Chopin’s 1899 novel The Awakening in the twelfth grade, the piece of literature once again crossed my mind.
The Fittest Bird on the Island
What do straight cisgender people want?