After five minutes with literally anyone, I’ll look up and be like, you’re Fire Nation. You’re Water. It’s almost like that’s my manual for understanding human behavior.
To be remembered is to defy the odds, to antagonize the structures which seek to undermine our communities, to love and serve even when it is hard. Blanca does not seek to be remembered for her successes, but rather for the impact she has had on those she loves. For Blanca, being remembered means overcoming a world built on her oppression.
Complaints about Harvard's massive endowment are common, but that ire is misdirected; a shift in focus would better actualize any changes student activists want.
ATLA’s childlike ideal shows us a model for returning to our original enlightenment. It shows us that we can be less like an arrow, and more like Sokka’s boomerang — we can finally embark home, to the child hero already waiting within us.
Spongebob serves paradoxically as a figure of queer disruption, an embrace of radical love and queered innocence, even in its commodified stat – not because of its independence from its means of production, but the consciousness of its fantasies.
Until multinational corporations are held accountable for their crimes, illegal logging will continue to devastate forests, threaten indigenous people, and make overcoming the climate crisis ever more difficult.
American culture likes to identify its heroes and villains; Avatar the Last Airbender creators Koniezko and DiMartino are neither. For me, they are not “canceled.” But contrary to public worship, their work bears harm too.
Activists should not present their goals as a necessarily conjoined front that can potentially undermine their case without tactful messaging, and solidarity can quickly become stifling if it is used to shame people into supporting a cause rather than inspiring them.
To strike a better balance between driving and living, cities and towns must commit themselves to human-oriented planning and the urban design to support it.
