Not long ago, I heard a duet on the radio, in which country stars Dierks Bentley and Elle King tenderly croon, “It’s different for girls when their hearts get broke They can’t tape it back together with a whiskey and Coke They don’t take someone home and act like it’s nothing They can’t just switch…
Maya Angelou once said, “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” President-Elect Donald Trump has shown that he has a quite tenuous grasp on science, at best, and that his policies will be, at best, hostile towards research and innovation. Alas, Trump offered little in the way of a…
TW: This piece may contain material that is upsetting or offensive to some audiences. On the Origins of the Trigger Warning Trigger warnings (TWs) on the Internet began as an earnest, potentially useful way to give audiences a heads up before delving into serious issues like rape, eating disorders, or domestic violence. This way, individuals who may…
Within the last few months, I’ve had a couple of self-love-related encounters that moved me to write this piece. The first was a conversation with a former friend, and the second was a New York Times Magazine article titled, “How ‘You Do You’ Perfectly Captures Our Narcissistic Culture.” At a stop light in the car…
My friend and I decided on a whim that together, we could build a bike. This experience has taught me more about myself than I could have ever imagined. Below is an abbreviated list for building self-awareness and a road bike. Take it as a call to action, to teach yourself something you were sure…
During my monthly cycle last week (I know, this is objectively the best start to any sentence, right?), I found myself eating a banana with the belief that it’d quell some minor cramps. The potassium remedy for period cramps is one I’m sure we’ve all heard at some point in our post-pubescent lives, but why?…
On the afternoon of July 4, 2004, I was sitting in the waiting room of a hospital in suburban Seattle, Washington. I’d taken a nasty tumble down the stairs while vacuuming bits of soil left behind by my then beloved pet tortoise, Cookie. All said and done, the incident left me with a very caricature-y…
After going public with its dismal, if unsurprising, diversity record, Google put its money where its mouth is last week when it launched a $50 million initiative to get women in coding. As it stands, only 17% of Google’s tech jobs a la software coding and engineering variety go to women employees, but the company…
