Irene Schrader

By the end of 2020, France will have spent around one-third of the year under coronavirus lockdown (also known as confinement in…

Featured Illustration: NIYIOKEOWO A video surfaced online on October 3rd, 2020 showing officers from Nigeria’s Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) police unit dragging…

Featured Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios Every day I come across a carousel of Instagram stories on my feed, plastered with neatly designed visuals…

Prefaced by the “can I speak to the manager” meme which first emerged in 2014, the “Karen” trope has since stepped in…

Popular culture is a crucial source we constantly draw from to configure our perception of self and others. This makes looking at…

Featured Image: Cosmopolitan A recent trend on Tik Tok known as the “fox eye challenge” has gotten people to shave their eyebrows…

As stilted as this may sound, this Lunar New Year was marked by the COVID-19 outbreak for my family. My mother took…

These days, conversations around me are densely patterned with talk of the novel coronavirus, which has recently been recognized by the World…

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My German and Chinese parents have always found it important for me to be culturally aware and open-minded. As a result, I…

Somewhere in the green Taiwanese mountains, above the clouds on a hot August day, I was sitting at a lunch table in…