It was Toni Morrison who said, “Don’t write about what you know, because you don’t know anything. I don’t want to hear about your boyfriend or your grandma…I’m getting a little tired of ‘my life story as fiction.’ Please don’t tell me about your little life—is there nothing larger? ...
At the grand age of five, I didn’t have many talents, but I could do a lot of things mediocrely. For instance, I was a very musically inclined child, but not in a piano competition child prodigy way—I was mostly just constantly humming to myself and loudly singing in our K-12 choir. “Take her ...
Renata Litvinova, a famous Russian actress, once called gossip an underrated genre. The novelty of this saying isn’t just about playing devil’s advocate for talking behind people’s backs—it’s also about considering a seamless act of everyday communication as a distinct medium. Categorizing ...
Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City once said that when she was broke, she would buy Vogue instead of dinner because it fed her more. I’ve been there too. Late at night and not a single crumb in my room, not even a shabby, mushy apple, the only viable option was to get my dopamine from a more ...
Recently, there has been a curious, serendipitous pattern in my media space. In a week, I encountered three works united by a common idea—the Law of Talion, which may be more familiar to you as the principle: “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.” These pieces included the Spanish story “Ley ...
I rarely speak my native language at Brown. When I come back to my dorm and think in English—out of habit—I feel pathetic. It’s not because I don’t enjoy speaking it—it's this shift that reminds me of the performativity that underlies daily conversations. I sit on the floor and catch myself ...
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