We’re Not Really Strangers Makes Me Feel Held
Three weeks into 2021, I was mindlessly scrolling through TikTok, attempting to numb the heartbreak I’d been tending to since the new year. I abruptly stopped on one featuring an…
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Foucault, Data, and Human Intimacy in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism
What is really mine anymore? On any given day, I’m letting little bits and pieces of my personal life become available to someone—or something—else. I don’t read the terms and…
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When Having Fun Feels Wrong
On January 6th, my weekly video chat with my friends from home was interrupted by an attempted coup. We stayed on the call, alternating between giving college advice to our…
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TikTok Is Offering a Community for Ex-Mormons Everywhere
Exactly how I ended up on ex-Mormon TikTok eludes me, but I’m happy I made it here. While I’m not a member of the Church of Latter-Day Saints (LDS), one…
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Understanding Body Neutrality with Therapist Ashlee Bennett
By now, we all (at least on some level) understand the body-positivity movement; the movement celebrates people loving their bodies and everything their bodies can do for them. While body…
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Feng You Jing: My Childhood’s Magical Green Oil
My childhood summers in Beijing were marked without fail by scores of mosquito bites, despite the bug sprays and floral water my mother routinely vaporized me with. Playing for hours…
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Mental Illness and Memory Loss: An Elegy for My “Euphoria” Years
I think I was fascinated by the narratives of teenage girls because I never really was one. One of the landmark moments at my drama school is receiving your “casting.”…
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