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‘GUTS:’ Olivia Rodrigo’s Incandescent Metamorphosis
With her sophomore album, Rodrigo has taken down romantic love from its lofty pedestal and traded it in for more philosophical musings.
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July 2023

SPEAK UR GUTS
On being 19 (again), lyric rewrites, and a revelatory wrinkle in the space-time continuum
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June 2023

It's Been A While...
On failure, fire, and where the hell I've been
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May 2022

Framing Folklore: The Politics of Storytelling in Philippine Media
On "Trese," "Aswang," and the future of the Philippine nation
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Project Mediocrity
On Enneagram Types, Racialized Excellence, and the Hollow Pursuit of Perfection
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April 2022

Not Your Average School Girl: A Film Review of "Turning Red"
On the complexity of Asian female identity formation
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My Top 5 Reads from the Last Two Weeks
Because burnout is so damn real
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March 2022

Deviant Women: On Hit Series "The Dropout" and "Pieces of Her"
Musings on our cultural obsession with bad women
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“What the hell would I be without you?”
On dodie, grief, and friendship
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February 2022

Grieving Racial Violence in a Woke America
How Madison's hyper-wokeness is a violence unto its own
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No One Likes a Tattletale
How Calling Out Racism in My Workplace Made Me the Most Unpopular Intern
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January 2022

What's in a Name?
"Wait, why did they just call you Mae?"
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