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Raven Yamamoto
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Call Her King: TikTok’s Maihua Lee on Being a Lesbian Icon
When Maihua Lee downloaded TikTok, she never imagined that she would become one of the most well-known faces of the LGBTQ+ TikTok community. With over 2 million followers and counting,…
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Quarantining with Family Is a Never-Ending Thanksgiving Dinner
For Father’s Day last year, I bought my dad Ben Shapiro’s first book, The Right Side of History. I never would have bought it on my own as someone who…
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Reposting Does Not Replace the Need for Reparations
The rise of social media has reshaped the landscape of activism, creating a forum with the power to spread information about injustices and mobilize people worldwide to fight against them.…
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Why Do We Love When Guys Sext with Sound?
On April 11th, TikTok user @nayeleeeee posted a video featuring the intro of a Lizzo song and a simple message in tandem. “I’ve been waiting for this one. Turn it…
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A Study in TikTok’s Hierarchy of Hype
TikTok—the app that many have called “cringey” but are now downloading because they’ve got too much free time on their hands. Many have gone in blind, only knowing that the…
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Sorry, Hawai’i Is Closed—Come Back Never.
There’s no pain like that of not being able to hold someone that’s right in front of you. When I got home after being evicted from my college, there was…
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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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