When I walk down the halls of McCaskey, I can feel the stress in the air. It’s palpable. When I talk to my friends about their days, I hear it echoed in their frenetic voices as they describe their struggle to balance marching band, varsity sports, musical, a job, advanced classes, the mountain of homework from the history teacher who waitresses at night. 16-year-old fledgling … Continue reading The Personal Is Political – So Drop a Commitment
T.W. : Mental health crisis, gender identity, mentions of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse As a person who does not identify with the binary and typically despises any type of label, gender identity is a difficult concept for me. My first gender crisis was in January of this year when a kid at the psych ward asked for my pronouns. My mind drew a blank. … Continue reading The Problem with Pronouns
“I can’t wait to go back to normal.” You’ve probably heard your friends and family say it a million times, putting on their masks with a sigh, longing for this amorphous concept of “normal.” But not only was normal unsustainable for anyone besides a privileged few, it’s also unlikely to be attainable. The rapid proliferation of coronavirus variants, as well as alarmingly low vaccination rates, … Continue reading Pandemics: the New Normal?
Most of us can probably relate to struggling with our body image because of the pressure put on us by society. These issues are upheld and reinforced by the media, which can overwhelm us with perfectly sculpted and airbrushed bodies. Celebrities have whole careers based on what they look like, for example, the Kardashians. The jobs of the Kardashians are to look good and create … Continue reading Khloe Kardashian and the Danger of Accepting Illusion as Reality
Mainstream Hollywood always tries to smooth over divorce – whether it be by way of ignoring it completely or mending it up and tying it with a safe, neat little bow. And America eats it up. We love to see our problems fixed and our lives represented as more simple than they actually are. A prime example of this is the 1998 remake of the … Continue reading Hollywood’s Fairytale Relationship with Divorce
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