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did you girlboss too close to the sun?
Yes, I copied that title from Taylor Swift. Being somewhat of an academic “overachiever” with multiple prestigious scholarships in my past, I thought I could easily plan out my professional life the way I had previously planned my academic life. Go to this school, do this, study this, get internships and student jobs here in…
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Trad wife fantasies, Girlboss realities
A trad wife is a married woman who makes it a point to live according to traditional gender norms. Essentially, a housewife, but with a religious fundamentalist attribute. Trad wives, including trad wives of colour, tend to be politically right wing. Another thing that makes them “trad” is that they are usually based in societies…
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this is me trying
The title and section titles are lyrics of the song this is me trying by Taylor Swift. I’ve been having a hard time adjusting I started my blog in high school because I was very depressed with bad thoughts, no where else to express what I felt and no one to turn to. The blog…
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Revisiting ‘Wakandafication’
In 2020, Jade Bentil, a Black feminist historian, used the term Wakandafication in a tweet during a wave of online discourse surrounding the trailer of the Disney+ film ‘Black Is King’ (I wrote about this here). She wrote, “The Wakandafication of the continent and Black diasporic identities is entirely uninspired. The repeated tropes/symbolic gestures that…
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Watch more movies.
Last year I re-discovered my love for movies. Back in high school I went off the radar during one school break and I watched at least 2 movies per night for an entire month. This was in 2015: good times (only when I watched stuff: I was extremely depressed). Movies helped me escape the cruel…
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I’m pissed, darling.
No matter who you are, you must be aware of this new film Don’t Worry Darling directed by Olivia Wilde. Unfortunately, it’s not because of the film itself but because of all the insane drama that has surrounded it since this year’s Venice Film Festival. Some words might ring a bell: Aperol, Miss Flo, #spitgate??…
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Poverty On The Big Screen
This article is my Donda. Spoilers warning for the films Parasite and The White Tiger. This year I had the time, finally, to watch 2019’s critically acclaimed film Parasite by Bong Joon-ho and the 2021 Netflix film The White Tiger by Ramin Bahrani. I told myself I’ll write something here on both and that was…
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Loving Vincent
The title was inspired/taken from the 2017 Oscar-nominated film Loving Vincent, which explores the cause of Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh’s death (sorry to start with a dark note). Loving Vincent is the world’s first fully painted feature film. Yes! PAINTED. I didn’t know much about Vincent van Gogh before watching the film, but in…
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Bridgerton: I have opinions
Spoilers warning! The Gossip Girl reboot no one asked for is finally here! I wasn’t quite sure I wanted to watch it, I resisted it when it came out, but it turns out I’m a basic bitch who will watch anything on Netflix, the McDonald’s of streaming services, as long as it’s trending on Twitter.…
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Christmas movies, capitalism and colonialism. Sorry.
I’m here to shit on Christmas movies because a) I don’t like the idea of Christmas b) I don’t remember the last time I had enough “Christmas Spirit” to keep me joyful about the holidays for a whole month: I’ve spent the last 3 Christmases alone so, in a way, I don’t really care what…
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