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  • Voting Rights in 2025: The Battle Isn’t Over Just Because the Marches Are Quieter

    Somewhere between the waving flags and the celebratory “I Voted” selfies, we like to pretend that the fight for voting rights is something we’ve already won. We picture black-and-white footage of marches in Selma, speeches by civil rights leaders, and think the battle was wrapped up decades ago in a neat little legislative bow called

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  • Why Failure Is the Best Teacher You’ll Ever Have

    Failure and I are on a first-name basis. We’ve shared cramped apartments, empty bank accounts, rejected job applications, rejected book drafts, and one unforgettable chili recipe that turned into a chemical weapon. We’ve cried together. We’ve yelled at each other. But eventually, I realized failure isn’t my enemy. It’s the weird, brutally honest life coach

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  • Food Myths Debunked: What’s Really Healthy and What’s Not

    Let’s get one thing straight: Nutrition advice is a minefield. One minute, eggs are the devil’s cholesterol bombs; the next, they’re the MVPs of your breakfast lineup. Carbs were your best friend in 1998 and became public enemy number one by 2004. Don’t even get me started on the drama surrounding coffee. (Is it aging

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  • Why Awards Shows Are My Favorite Form of Performance Art (And Occasional Train Wreck)

    There’s something oddly comforting about the chaos of an awards show. Maybe it’s the glittering gowns that look like someone lost a bet with a glue gun. Maybe it’s the presenters who butcher the teleprompter like it insulted their mother. Or maybe it’s just the promise that something will go off the rails and Twitter

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  • Why Female Rappers Are the Only Ones I Really Connect With

    There’s a specific kind of power that female rappers possess—a kind that doesn’t ask for permission, doesn’t apologize, and sure as hell doesn’t whisper. And somewhere between the claws-out confidence, the poetic rage, and the rhythmic reclaiming of space that was never meant for them, I realized something: I see myself in them more than

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  • How Intersectionality Shapes Our Understanding of Inequality

    What It Is, Why It Matters, and How It Shows Up in the Real World Let’s talk about a word that’s been tossed around like it’s a trendy accessory on the intellectual runway but rarely given the depth it deserves: intersectionality. You’ve probably heard it in think pieces, on activist panels, maybe even from that

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  • Bipartisanship Is Dead — And That’s Okay

    Let’s just rip the Band-Aid off: bipartisanship is dead. And you know what? Maybe it deserves to be. For years, we’ve been spoon-fed this myth that the highest virtue in American politics is finding the middle ground. That if we all just held hands across the aisle and sang kumbaya, we could fix everything from

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  • Scream and the Death (and Rebirth) of the Slasher: How One Film Revived a Genre on Life Support

    When Scream slashed its way into theaters in December 1996, the horror genre was a bloated corpse of its former self. Slashers, once revolutionary in the late ’70s and early ’80s, had been reduced to formulaic gore-fests. The tropes were tired, the killers predictable, and the final girls were either virginal stereotypes or so thinly

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  • Clueless and the Style of 90s Teen Movies: A Love Letter in Knee-High Socks

    Some movies don’t just exist—they define. They walk into pop culture wearing a plaid skirt, holding a fluffy pen, and suddenly the entire decade wants to talk like them. That, my friends, is Clueless. A movie so iconic it made being a rich, self-absorbed Beverly Hills high schooler look… aspirational. Somehow, it’s both a biting

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  • The Fight Club I Never Joined: Why I’ve Never Seen The Godfather, Rocky, or Any of Those Other Man Movies

    Let me confess a deep, dark, shameful secret — one that threatens to revoke my citizenship in the Republic of Straight Male America (which, let’s be honest, I wasn’t exactly invited to in the first place): I have never seen Gladiator, Fight Club, Rambo, Rocky, or even The Godfather. That’s right. I am a fully

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