To be fair, optimization under patriarchy is exhausting. Last October, Vogue put out its ever-relevant “Is Having a Boyfriend Embarrassing Now?” article, which made the rounds on practically every media site that exists. CNN interviewed the author, The Guardian did a follow-up article, and every short-form and long-form content creator gave their two cents and then an extra penny. Most reactions correctly assessed the magnitude of how women’s dating history and romantic decisions impact their...

Trigger Warning: brief mentions of SkinnyTok, thinness, assault, restricting food, dieting, body image, and referenced articles mention eating disorders The standard of beauty is always changing. One minute, everyone wants to be thin, then they want a Brazilian butt lift. One minute it’s body positivity, the next it’s #SkinnyTok. From childhood, women are constantly made aware of their physical appearance. We’re told what food to eat or avoid so we don’t gain weight. We’re told to be pretty...

What goes up must come down, and for women in Hollywood, the turnaround is worse than the ruthless law of physics.

The word “ Superstar ” as defined by the Merriam Webster Dictionary is “a star (as in sports or the movies) who is considered extremely talented, has great public appeal, and can usually command a high salary”. I associate traits like talented, undefeated, and unique with Superstars . Who in the music industry do you consider a Superstar ? Think Beyonce and Micheal Jackson. I admire the growth of artists like these because of the inspiration they've given to the world. Music is a powerful...

There’s an evident tug of love and hate from both ends of the spectrum of belief. What lies within the grey area, however, is fashion. 

Many people struggle to connect to religion because of the judgment that is intertwined in many religious structures.

Despite their depth and complexity, hoodoo and voodoo/vodou are often misunderstood.

In mass, it was often said that God was beside you at all times. Instead of comfort, I felt a certain pressure to be good, or almost perfect, at all times, in fear that I was always being watched.

How Dennis the play twists classical framework into a charged, imaginative, fever dream.

In a political landscape where it seems the head demon in charge has unchecked power to tear everything apart, Zohran Mamdani stands as a bright beacon of what a leader can be.  I had the incredible pleasure of meeting Mr. Mamdani - on a first date of all things -  and somehow ran into each other twice in the same night. The second time, after only a two-minute conversation earlier, he remembered my name and  the magazine I worked for. That moment has stayed with me because it revealed...

Camaraderie has been an enduring element in female friendships throughout history. Whether in medieval convents or as newly working women in the past century, sisterhood and female solidarity have helped women fight against all kinds of bigotry, or at the very least, make persisting through it just a little more tolerable. Women have typically been underdeveloped, if at all developed, characters. For the longest time, entertainment media in particular have represented the interactions between...

When you hear the words intimacy and desire, what do you think of? In many cases, people tend to associate these words with sex: sexual desire, sexual intimacy. But what happens when we start to reshape the way we think about these words? Dating and relationships are complex. There's a wide range of emotions and feelings that occur, and as we’re evolving in the realm of dating, we more often than not end up viewing certain aspects of romantic relationships through a sexual, or what I will...

Dear Virgil Abloh, I wish this was a letter I could actually send you. Maybe it would end up somewhere between sketches, playlists, and the endless ideas you always seemed to have. But since it can’t, this is just my way of saying thank you. Not just for the clothes, and not even just for the moment you became the menswear artistic director at Louis Vuitton. What I’m really thankful for is the way you helped people see culture differently. You showed the world that the things so many of us...

Black women matter. Black women in history have always been seen as “other,” or the  other. She can’t be both a woman and Black. With that, she is placed at the bottom of the oppressed. As a woman, she’s expected to learn her home before her mind, find her husband before her heart, and have children—completely hindering her childhood to give new life what she couldn’t have. She does it all with what she has and what she works her ass for. All in silence. Determination. And audacity. Never did...

Christianity sits as America’s predominant religion. As much as I’d love to believe it to be purely out of discipleship, the truth is quite the opposite.

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines atheism as “a lack of belief or a strong disbelief in the existence of a god or any gods”. And it is just that the lack of a belief, or in simpler terms, the lack of a religion.

A few months ago I was driving home and saw a house with a sign that said God, Guns, & Country. Kind of like “live, laugh, love.”



My first thought was, at least they put God first! My second thought was, what does God have to do with guns?

I grew up and began to realize that just because Scripture says, “God is love,” does not mean that every believer holds that verse in their heart.

New York City voters have chosen Zohran Mamdani as their next mayor, concluding a closely watched race that centered on affordable living, public safety, and city reform.  At 34-years-old, Mamdani will become the youngest mayor in over a century and the city’s first Muslim mayor, succeeding Eric Adams. His campaign emphasized policies aimed at improving public transit, expanding access to social services, and addressing the high cost of living. The race drew attention not only for its...

In the horrific adaptation of Stephen King’s Carrie , the 1976 film dives into the life of shy, non-confrontational, and nonviolent (at the time) Carrie White. Carrie is portrayed as a teen with little experience in social settings, which makes her vulnerable to being picked on and bullied in different ways.  “No, it’s not that I don’t like to speak up for myself, I’m just super non-confrontational.” That’s not a statement you should live by, babe. What do you mean you’re just “super...