The Land of Niche Ships
You lovingly leaf through wizarding worlds in early adolescence and think there’s no devotion purer than the one you have for your beloved boy wizard, until a few years later…
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Andrea Panaligan
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18-year-old Andrea Panaligan is a writer and photographer from the Philippines. Currently a behavioral sciences student, her work usually revolves around coming of age and how adolescence is simultaneously nothing and everything. Her other passions include film, ideas of identity and the process of selfhood, feminism, mental health, and young adult literature.
The Soft Boys of Netflix, Ranked
With the amount of young, conventionally attractive white (doe-eyed, tall, slender, definitely cis) men wearing pink crop tops and black nail polish despite the frightening possibility of backlash from their…
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The Teens of “Sex Education,” Ranked
What Sex Education gets so right is not only the sex, but also the havers of the sex. It’s a masterclass in characterization, and with the buildup from the first…
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Double Lives: Or, the Anatomy of the Secret Stan Account
Anyone who says they can’t remember their first Twitter username is either traumatized to the point of repression or a liar. I, former Twitter user @tweetme_harry, remember it all clearly:…
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“Fleabag,” Fourth Walls, and the Flaws of First-Person Writing
Pop quiz: it’s thesis season and you (who has slept a grand total of five hours in three days) and your laptop (in all its 2.36-kilogram glory) had just fallen…
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30 Coming-of-Age Movies That Made Us Feel Seen
“I don’t think it’s overstating it to say that my religion of choice became VHS rentals, and that its messages came in Technicolor and musical montages and fades and jump…
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How to Get Back Into Reading This Summer
I like to think I’m growing into the kind of person younger me would be proud of, but I can’t quite shake the feeling that 14-year-old me who read block-thick…
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What Being Transgender Truly Means During Pride
I don’t really celebrate Pride Month. I mean, sure, I go to the festivals. I tweet about LGBTQ topics; I even change my profile picture to a transgender flag. Yet…
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9 Movies to Watch If You Already Miss “Black Mirror”
So. You zipped through Season 5 in one sitting after waiting a year and a half for it. And now you have a big, gaping, Black Mirror–shaped hole in your…
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Growing up on Western Teen Media as Non-Western Teenager
There have been about a million personal essays on Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird since its release a year and a half ago. And I mean, sure, that’s not the actual…
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