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The Teenage Dirtbag Grows Up
Ah, the early 2000s. Low-rise jeans. Bucket hats. Jason Biggs! One can find all of that and more in the music video for Wheatus’ “Teenage Dirtbag.” A karaoke favorite for millenials, “Dirtbag” encapsulates all
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Guyanese, Mexican, and American — I Contain Multitudes
I spend most days rushing between online meetings at zoom university and working at a retail store that pays me minimum wage. My feet ache and sometimes I come home to the entire house
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My Dad’s Guitar
When I was little I thought every dad played the guitar. I thought dads would get home from work, clean up, sit down in the living room, and play songs by Vicente Fernandez and
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Let’s Talk About Society’s Role In Interracial Relationships
I never considered the race of my former partner during our earliest moments together. I just saw who I was beginning to love, which was probably why I was taken by such surprise when
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Parsing the Strange Language of Texting
“Merry Christmas” was the very first text message ever sent, on December 3rd, 1992, by British engineer Neil Papworth to his pal Richard Jarvis. His greeting never received a response. To be fair, Jarvis
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Not My Name
Sometimes words don’t sit quite right in your mouth. Cacophony. Guffaw. Clunky. That’s fine—it’s easy enough to avoid using them in writing or conversation. They don’t regularly come up in your day to day
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America, Alcohol, and Me
“Woah, really? Not even a sip?” “Not even a sip.” This dialogue is a cornerstone of my existence, whether I’d like it to be or not. I have never had an alcoholic beverage in
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It’s just a joke? When Halloween costumes cross the line
On October 31, 2015, the Internet ignited as an image of a man wearing an offensive Bill Cosby Halloween costume made the rounds online. With a Cosby dummy on his back, the slouched-over man was
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Too Many Fish in the Sea
On a recent night out facilitated by Tinder, my date and I were sitting at a quiet table, discussing our mutually favorite bands, telling funny stories, sharing our intimate hopes and dreams– the usual things
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Grades Don’t Define Us
As children, we learn A, B, C, D and F as mere letters, but in our academic careers, they become labels. We realize the importance of the letter grade and the value of an “A.” We want to
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