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The Rebranding of AAVE: Modern Day Minstrel
Featured Image: Shannon Ahren for Alligator African American Vernacular English (AAVE), also known as Black English and Ebonics, is a dialect with…
KENDRA FRANKLIN
CULTURE, EMPOWERMENT
Of Kulfi and Kajals: How One Beauty Brand is Bridging the Gap Between Tradition and Innovation
Featured Image: Badal Patel Kulfi Beauty is as sweet as it is disruptive. While inclusivity is necessary for any industry, this upcoming…
PRATHIGNA YERAKALA
CULTURE
Fantasy Has No Limits — Unless You’re Disney
Featured Illustration: Andrea Dezsö Over winter break, I decided to watch some of the films that had been racking up on my…
INA PAN
CULTURE
Bollywood Made Me Feel Like an “Inferior” Indian Because I’m South Indian
Featured Illustration: Hanifa Abdul Hameed One night, I was at a mutual friend’s party when I overheard two brown guys having a…
ANGELICA SILVA
CULTURE, LIFE
Learning and Unlearning with Debby Nguyen: The Power of Culture & Medicine
Featured Image: New Degree Press Debby Nguyen is the author of her debut nonfiction book: Pills, Teas, and Songs, a New York…
PRATHIGNA YERAKALA
CULTURE, LIFE
We Need to Memorialise the Stories of our South Asian Female Elders Before It’s Too Late
Featured Illustration: Joey Guidone We often forget the legacies of those before us, legacies that lift us up and constantly inspire us.…
KHADIJAH HASAN
CULTURE, POLITICS
Stop Co-Opting Our Movements and Get Your Own
Featured Image: Financial Times Black Lives Matter. Not only is it true, but it’s also the name of a movement. Our movement.…
NA'ILAH WILLIAMS
CULTURE
3 Challenges as a First-Generation Student and How I Overcame Them
Featured Illustration: Leonardo Santamaria A first-generation student is best described as someone whose parents did not attend college, therefore making the student…
MARIA ALONSO
CULTURE
Bridgerton and the Not-So-Innocent Black Girl Trope
I would definitely be lying if I said that I was not one of the hundreds of people raging about Netflix’s newest…
AMANDA SMITH
CULTURE
“Hetero” — Is it a Mental Disease?
Featured Artwork: ‘What If?’ by Roxana Radulescu *Note: This piece is purely satirical. All quotes are works of fiction. . . .…
INA PAN
CULTURE, POLITICS
“Nightcrawler” and Ethical Photojournalism at the Capitol Riots
Featured Illustration: Reza Bassiri I still remember exactly what I was doing when the Trump-supporting domestic terrorists stormed America’s Capitol. I was…
INA PAN
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
New Name
Featured Artwork: Upasana Agarwal Harami My 10-year old Urdu vocabulary didn’t include that word. I didn’t know what it meant.  Other than…
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