I Got Pregnant on Birth Control as a Mom. Here’s What It Taught Me About the Toll of an Unplanned Pregnancy
The air in the bedroom felt suffocating as I watched the timer, muted and off-camera during a work call. I felt my heart beating in my ears. The timer dinged as my co-workers continued chatting in the background, all of us equally unaware that my life was about to change. I looked down at the pregnancy […]
Essay: Lemonade Is More Than Just An Album For Beyoncé
Beyoncé has proved that when life gives her lemons, she makes lemonade. It’s only fitting that the queen of pop’s sixth album, featuring 12 songs and an hour-long visual album, is called just that–Lemonade. The hour-long visual album was released on HBO on April 23; for days after its release, it was all people could […]
Essay: Angry Beavers Is Meant For Good Laughs, Not Life Lessons
I was born in 1990 and I am proud of the decade I grew up. Everything in the 90s was better, especially cartoons. I primarily watched cartoons on Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon – cartoons on stations like PBS didn’t even come close in my book. Like every other 90s baby, I watched all the popular […]
Essay: Kim Kardashian’s Idea of Self-Empowerment
Kim Kardashian West broke the Internet (again) March 7 when she posted a nude selfie on Instagram. The selfie shows Kardashian West in a bathroom with bleached hair, two censor bars and a very serious express on her face. The caption reads, “When you’re like I have nothing to wear LOL.” The Internet went crazy, […]
Essay: Maria and the Christmas of 2005
*Author’s Note: Names and locations have been changed due to the sensitive nature of the piece. I am an only child, and growing up was sometimes a little lonely. I had friends that I could hang out with and share secrets with but for me, I always wondered what it would be like to have […]