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As a writer, storytelling is one of my main passions. I love to both partake in and experience moving storytelling, and no one tells important, slice-of-life stories quite the way Humans of New York (HONY) does. A project spearheaded by Brandon Stanton in 2010, HONY has turned into something much larger than the “initial goal
Malaysian-Indian. Growing up, this term has been both a blessing and a curse for me. I’ve always had mixed feelings about this label and this unsettling emotion eventually weaned its way into my insecure soul. The reasons? Well, for starters, let’s get on to the good part. And yes, this is where I talk about
There are two applications I’ve become very familiar with over the course of quarantine: TikTok and Zoom. Many of my days indoors have blended into mosaics of screens, moving from my bed to my chair and back again. It’s an endless, lonely cycle. So naturally, I wanted to change that. Something that I’ve been encountering
Warning: This article contains potentially triggering or upsetting information regarding school shootings. *Editor’s Note: This article was edited in 2022 in order to update the media/stories featured. Generation Z (Gen Z) is a group of deeply-anxious people born in 1997 – 2012, according to Pew Research Center (but for the sake of this piece we’ll
As the United States reels with the pain of the death of George Floyd and forces itself to finally face the repercussions of centuries of discrimination, police violence and institutional racism, the internet has come alive. Yet there’s one faction of Twitter that never sleeps, anyway: stan Twitter. While the term “stan” derives from the
Last month, the masses were fighting tooth and nail for a roll of toilet paper. The store aisles were empty shelves; Purell was practically being sold on the black market. However, starting in May, the Lysol and paper product craze died down. Stores are still lacking supplies, though—just a different kind. To be specific: brown
TikTok is the second most popular app in the world, bested only by the necessary WhatsApp. Political, racial and data-mining scandals have erupted out of the app run primarily by teenagers. Still, very few videos have sparked as much interest within the insular TikTok community as point of view (POV) content. POVs serve as a
We are at an age where social media encourages us to speak out; it gifts us with a powerful voice. But as wonderful as that is, it has inevitably opened the Pandora’s box of swirling, clashing opinions that dominate cyberspace. Don’t get me wrong– heated debates are the fires that propel us humans to call
This week, Alibaba’s Tmall (one of China’s largest online marketplaces) released a series of Chinese New Year-themed commercials. One of them gained millions of views and an abundance of praises for subtly representing a same-sex couple. Another step towards the normalization of queer relationships in China? The 23-second commercial shows a young man introducing his
Over a decade ago, Suzanne Collins published the first book of the Hunger Games trilogy and changed the YA novel game forever. Now, four years after the final movie adaptation and eight years after the final book, she’s back with a new addition to the fictitious world of Panem. The forthcoming novel, entitled A Ballad of Songbirds and
In January of this year, the mini TV-series Surviving R. Kelly, in which seven women came forward and brought to light the physical, mental, and sexual abusive experiences they allegedly endured from R. Kelly, aired on Lifetime. The rapper had previously somehow resisted many lawsuits accusing him of abuse, including some which accused him of
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