Culture

I celebrate the creation of contemporary media like Insecure, and the growing opportunities for Black women to be in front of and behind the camera. It is high time that we see accurate depictions of all facets of Black womanhood

opportunities, Black Americans still dedicate themselves to pursuing high quality education for themselves and their children.

Well, we should embrace failure. When we devote time to process it and separate our actions from our abilities, we allow ourselves to understand failure’s enduring importance. We realize the right motivations that bring us forward

The media is a powerful tool that can be used to make people aware about issues taking place outside of their communities, but it only works when the issues are actually being responsibly represented, and not being portrayed in an apathetic way.

As I reflect on the sport I left behind, time has revealed gymnastics' capacity to harm just as much as it enriches.

With its foolproof and politically intuitive algorithm distinct from any other, Tiktok has become the new and invincible creator of political echo chambers in the 21st century. 

Embedded within the elegance, oddities and confusion of the 2021 Met Gala — themed "In America: A Lexicon of Fashion" — was another quintessential component of American culture — activism.

A narrow discussion of the alt-right pipeline’s threat means that the full scope of the issue is rarely addressed. I speak from personal experience when I say that failing to address the alt-right pipeline as a complex and hyper-present issue only serves to make it stronger.

What the second season does, in a slow-burn, warm-glow kind-of-way, is show viewers that an Indian girl, just like any other girl, can learn to love and forgive herself and forgive others. That she can grow, make mistakes, and emerge better and stronger from the mess. That making mistakes and even becoming a bit unhinged are  strengths in and of themselves.

Time and again, the disparate attention paid to tragedies in the Global North and Global South reveal underlying inequities and injustices, ones which we must unlearn.