Wake up at maybe 8:30 (which, for me, counts as sleeping in). Smugly spend a few minutes thinking about how late I’ve slept. Get up, make chai, and then spend several hours in my room writing fiction from one of the 43,784,890 stories I’ve got hidden away on my Google Drive. Summon my five best …
I know. It’s been a whole year since this movie came out. Times have changed, and the world has bigger things to talk about, like the fact that AOC just played Among Us. So why am I still stuck in 2019, you ask? To that I say, 2019 was a simpler time, and I think …
Most people’s earliest memory has something to do with being a young and carefree child. They remember chasing fireflies or licking the sidewalk, or in my sister’s case, ruthlessly pursuing a grumpy pair of geese like Ahab plowing after Moby Dick. My earliest memory is like a movie scene where the main character flashes back …
I say this with utmost respect about a justice who was an inspiration in so many ways. She battled cancer with a defiance that spoke to her power. She was a champion of gender equality. She had a sense of humor. She served 27 electric years as a liberal justice, and was in many ways …
MAJOR SPOILERS FOR SEASON 2 BELOW! Disclaimer: this review is for fun and not intended to break hearts. (Mostly.) So the title you just clicked on is not the true essence of this piece. Its real title is “Reasons why Tuğtekin and Gökçe were A+ characters and could have grown to be even better.” Let’s get …
Chadwick Boseman meant so much to so many people. The whole world remembers how it celebrated when Black Panther came out in movie theaters. How people walked away dizzy from the thrill and teary-eyed from the beauty of the story. Countless little boys and girls saw themselves in the heroes of Wakanda. I can only …
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Note: I’m writing this based on “discussions” I’ve seen regarding Black Lives Matter, the Israeli occupation of Palestine, and the Indian occupation of Kashmir. I use the words majority/minority for the sake of convenience; in some cases “underrepresented” and “represented group” would be more accurate terms. Everyone wants to be nuanced in a discussion. Nuance …
The last time I went to India was 2016, the summer before my freshman year, and I thought it was the most beautiful place on Earth. I loved – and still love – that country. Ammi was raised in Bangalore, Abbu in Chennai. I love the melody of Urdu and Hindi, and how you can …
SOMEWHERE OUT THERE, there is a WHITE MAN called LARRY who is A FOURTH AS TALENTED AS YOU ARE but with TWICE the CONFIDENCE and HE WILL GET HIRED if YOU don’t walk into that interview LIKE YOU OWN IT. ~ quote (c) a fellow Muslim UNC j-school alum who was kind enough to hype …