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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
Read More »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
Read More »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
Read More »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
Read More »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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