The Parties We See On-Screen
I’m stuck at home, watching yet another Netflix drama, the same high school party trope playing out on my screen once again: it’s the night before graduation, and The Nerdiest…
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Kiddest Sinke
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White Rage in America: Where Will the Republican Party Go Next?
I’ll be honest: when I first heard about the U.S. Capitol insurrection, I wasn’t shocked. As a Black woman, I could have seen it coming from a mile away, like…
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The Y2K Renaissance: Fashion As Pleasure
I’m in Los Angeles, and outside my window there’s a girl dressed in a bedazzled velour tracksuit. It’s not Juicy Couture, but it might as well be with the words…
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The Coffee-Industrial Complex: America’s Obsession With Productivity
During quarantine, I’ve missed a lot of things—my friends, my family, my dreams and aspirations—but most of all, I’ve missed coffee shops. I miss the hustle and bustle of 9…
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“WitchTok” and the New Wave of Political Spirituality
TikTok has become the home of modern witchcraft, with more and more “baby witches” joining “WitchTok” every day. United by an interest in the occult, these self-proclaimed witches will post…
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The Untold Truth of Being a Twitch Thot
“Are you…watching porn?” We were on a Greyhound bus traveling across the Midwest, and I could swear I heard moaning from the seat over. Out of the corner of my…
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Shane Dawson and the Myth of the Unproblematic YouTuber
I used to wish I was Shane Dawson. Well, not really. But there was a time when I craved his spotlight. It was back in 2008, when I was ten…
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What Going Viral on TikTok Taught Me About Cultural Appropriation
On TikTok, copying someone is the highest form of flattery. To get even one person to imitate you—whether that’s by copying your dance, lip-syncing your sound, repeating your joke, or…
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The Revolution Will Not Be Online
We have been quarantined for three months now, some of us completely isolated from our friends and family. But it wasn’t until these past few days that I felt completely…
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