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Looking like Mulan
Sex on Tuesday
I allowed myself to be violated, offended, objectified, dissected, because I didn’t think I held enough worth to deserve to live my life on my own terms.
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End the cycle of sleeplessness: 4 ways to get better sleep
Whether it be due to stress, anxiety or unknown reasons, we’ve all been there, lying in bed for hours, hoping to fall asleep. Here’s how to sleep well.
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5 Instagram post ideas to trick everyone about your whereabouts this spring break
Recreate these five photos to have even the savviest of social media mongols believing you were on the sand in Cabo — all from the comfort of your Snuggie. Fair warning: your phone may indeed combust into flames due to the sheer amount of cringe-worthy content below!
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It’s (not) all about the angles
In My Size
As I lay on my bed scrolling through the 40 photos I took, my eyes filled with tears, and I threw my phone at the mirror. I looked nothing like the photoshopped pictures online. I was upset that I was trying so hard to be someone else.
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‘Agents for change’: The intersection of Armenian feminism and Instagram
Translation note: The image above reads “My love shall break your patriarchy” in Armenian. While feminist strands of thought have always existed in the Armenian community, the stigmatization of feminism that I have witnessed within Armenian culture has barred feminist ideas from mainstream dialogue. As an Armenian woman growing up
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Be kindr to Grindr
Off the Beat
I realize now how essential access to LGBTQ+-centered spaces — online or in person — is to queer and questioning youth. Online communities provide us with the education, support and affirmation the rest of the world does not offer us.
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The 1975 scrutinizes societal role of social media in ‘A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships’
The 1975 doesn’t shy away from cultural commentary; rather, it focuses its music directly on the United States’ most politically polarizing subjects. The group covers topics from the disproportionate incarceration rate among Black men to the Syrian refugee crisis.
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Harry Hudson shares insight on love, loss and beginning again
“There’s no limits, there’s no ties — I feel like love is so important,” said singer-songwriter Harry Hudson in an interview with The Daily Californian. “It goes beyond work, it goes beyond career, it goes beyond what’s happening in the moment.”
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Social media hits the fan
Miss Communication
In 2011, seven years after Mark Zuckerberg sat in a Harvard dorm room and birthed a monstrosity, I made my Facebook profile. For someone born in the very last years of the 20th century, that was considered late. I sat at a school computer, a black, bulky Windows desktop. Of
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