I got my Bachelor’s degree in 2017. I couldn’t get a job, but that’s a story I’m sure you’ve heard before. The recent college grad, saddled with student loan debt and facing dismal employment prospects. I’ll spare you the boringly familiar details of my post-school journey.
I joined a nonprofit…
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I have chronic conditions and comorbidities. It’s a hard thing for me to talk about. It has a name, but I struggle to say it. And to be honest, to further prove the point of this article and avoid the very thing I’m denouncing in the comments, I won’t be…
If I can be honest, I’m not big on music videos these days and haven’t been for a long time.
I see two women flicking their tongues at each other, eyes turned towards the camera — a proxy for a presumably male viewer — rubbing each other’s bodies while simultaneously…
My partner recently completed a training program for a technical field that introduced them to the first Black instructor they’ve ever had in all of their educational history — and they have a Bachelor’s degree.
All the trainees were low-income, in the age range of 18–24, and most were Black…
I write about a lot of “controversial” topics. Social justice. Feminism. Blackness. And for the most part, I’m having a good time. Reading other articles and doing the research that goes along with writing has been enjoyable, if a lot of work at times. But overall I would describe my…
Like a lot of people I know, I spent my formative years immersed in fictional worlds. I was a regular at the local library. I was sneakily reading trilogies under my desk when I should’ve been doing calculus. I rarely spent more than a few days per book and blew…
Can we move on? Please? I’m so tired.
Ever since The Closer dropped on October 5th, the internet has kind of sucked. More so than usual, anyway. …
I recently saw comedian and 2 Dope Queens co-creator Phoebe Robinson do a live set in which she joked about being bad at sex. Just straight up honesty about how she’s a little bit lazy and likes missionary. It was funny, but also gave me the flooring realization that I’d…
Netflix’s latest bloody Korean drama has taken over the internet in recent weeks to quickly become one its most successful shows to date. Gory and gratuitous, the show — in the words of Vox writer Aja Romano — “use[es] its themes and characters to navigate the impact of capitalism on…
