Here’s every post I’ve created, from most to least recent:
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Book Review: “Who’s Afraid of Gender” by Judith Butler
Painting by Christina Quarles (check out her work, it’s amazing) As you may know, I’ve been reading and analysing some books I think reflect current situations, and have decided to start a series of reviews for the blog. This is the third review. If you’d like, you can access the first and second here. Judith Butler is a renowned philosopher and gender theorist best known for their work on gender performativity. They are a professor…
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Gratitude
This fall I’ve thought a lot about gratitude. I can’t help but feel so utterly and completely blessed for everything around me right now. One of my mother’s best friends always used to say “Celebrate the good days”, and my mom has repeated it to me often. And it’s true. It’s so crucial to dwell on and feel gratitude for all of the good in our lives, at least as much as we ruminate over…
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Another Hometown Summer
August has come and gone. Welcome to September, the season of local summer, sweaters, old fall playlists, and school calendars. Time moves on, people come and go, and summer passes us by. I have a complex relationship with summer. My entire life, my summers have been the same, which perhaps was the only comfort that came with it. Ocean City, New Jersey is a tourist destination. “America’s Greatest Family Resort”. I sometimes see people wearing…
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Book Review: “The Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights” by Phillip M. Ayoub and Kristina Stoeckl
As you may know, I have been reading and analysing some books which reflect current situations, and have decided to start a series of reviews for the blog. This is the second review, of The Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights by Phillip M. Ayoub and Kristina Stoeckl. Read the first review here. link to my goodreads Phillip M. Ayoub is a political scientist with research interests in international relations, LGBTI politics, and human rights. He…
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Junior Year and Other Daydreams
I entered my junior year in complete uncertainty. Coming off a gap semester in a new state, a new city, a new house, a new major (on top of the others) a new university, and a new lust for life. There’s a blog post up about moving to Miami (read that here) but I wanted to hop on the blog and get in a formal write up of the literal dream that was my third…
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Book Review: “Sex is as Sex Does” by Paisley Currah
Hello. I’ve been reading and analyzing some books I think reflect current situations, and have decided to start a series of reviews for the blog. The first book is “Sex is as Sex Does” by Paisley Currah. link to my goodreads Paisley Currah is a political scientist and professor at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). His research focuses on transgender rights, identity, and public policy. He…
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I Went to Europe! (alone) (with a backpack) (and no plan)
I just called my mom. Apparently, the first time I was on an airplane, I was seven months old. My first cross-country road trip, I was a week old. I went on my first international trip at three to Mexico to visit my family in their village there. When I was in middle school, my Mom and Dad bought an RV, pulled my sister and me out of school for almost three months, and we…
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A Quick Essay About Fast Fashion
How the Industry is Ruining Lives and the Earth And What We Can Do I’ve always loved to thrift. When I was a kid, I went to Goodwill with my dad and sister to get new clothes to wear. I went in high school with my friends as a pleasurable activity, looking for stylish vintage pieces. In college, I love going alone, just listening to music and thinking for a while, with the added possibility…
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Welcome to Miami, Bienvenidos a Miami
Hey. It’s been a sec. Welcome back! So, where have I been, and what have I been doing? Lots. A brief recap! Fresh out of high school in 2022, I moved to San Diego, California to attend the University of San Diego. I loved the school and met and befriended such incredible people there, but it was also a tough year. Looking back, I had no idea what I was doing. I knew I wanted to…
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Turning 20 (and thinking about time)
In one week, I will enter my twenties. I will stop being a teenager, and never be one again. I’ve been thinking about it. In some ways, it feels crazy, maybe a bit scary. A reminder that time moves much faster than we want it to. A confirmation that I’m starting to leave my youth behind. A taste of a new decade. Growing up is scary because you’ve never done it before, until you’re doing…
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Seven Sustainability Ideas
Every once in a while when I see a sad fact about the environment while scrolling Instagram and fall into a rut about the fact that we’re killing our only planet at a terrifying rate and no one seems to care, I usually turn to one of two things: And that happens decently often, so I’ve gathered a few habits over the years, though I am still far from perfect. I also think it’s important…
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Quick thoughts on launching MYRIAD and also life!
I’m about to press the button that’s floated at the top of my WordPress dashboard for over a year, and I won’t lie, it’s a little surreal. When I decided at the end of 2022 to start a blog, I had no clue where it would take me. The truth is, this has become something much more than I thought it would be. And no one has even seen it yet. Sipping oat milk lattes,…
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it was the best of times…
Fall 23: Part two (part one is posted, start there) LYRICS: And it all comes down to you Well you know that it does And lightning strikes, maybe once, maybe twice Oh, and it lights up the night And you see your gypsy You see your gypsy “Gypsy” by Fleetwood Mac TLDR: My life kinda fell apart this fall. Here’s how I put it back together, and what made it better than before. When every…
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…it was the worst of times
Fall 23: Part one LYRICS: Why did I stay so long? Well I’m going to be fine I’ve been training for this moment My whole damn life And if, when I say what I need to say, and it makes you pull away Go on and kick me out of the band It’ll help me to understand I’m better off anyway Without this coolshit, bullshit Lyrics from “Coolshit Bullshit” by Danika TLDR: My life kinda…
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Somewhere between a newspaper girl and a career?
So this past semester, I started what I’ve been referring to as a “big girl job”. But let’s backtrack. My parents own a bakery. I grew up in it. When I was a baby, my parents would take me to work at 2 AM and put me to sleep in a bassinet on the main bench while they began prepping sticky buns for the day. When I was a toddler, I would wake up with…
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Fall at Rutgers, Passing Time, and Life Plans
I’m starting to type this post on November 2nd, 2023 while sipping a hot oat milk latte at a coffee shop in downtown New Brunswick, NJ, a short walk from Rutgers University’s College Ave campus. I came to Rutgers in the fall of 2023, because I decided to not return to University of San Diego really late in the game, and Rutgers was the only school I could still go to. I literally didn’t know…
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Vol 1 of My Zine
So I’m in college, and I’m currently taking this class called “Feminist Practices”. It’s been pretty cool. Anyway, my midterm was to create a lil mini zine online. I’ve always thought that zines were so interesting. If you don’t know what they are, they’re basically little pamphlets or magazines that started gaining popularity during the third wave of feminism, around the 90’s. They were made in small batches, always independently published, and usually distributed amongst…
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Freshman Year of College, Baby.
Senior Year, Decisions, California, Majors, Cars, and Questions. So, let me start off by telling you that I’ve always been a pretty high achiever in school, just objectively. I was in the higher math class in third grade, with Mrs. Ferrier in the corner classroom on the second floor of Ocean City Primary School. I would do minute maths and pretend I understood things. In middle school, I would shuffle to my Gifted And Talented…
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Why MYRIAD exists and how it came to be…
A 2023 Goal In December of 2022, I was on winter break, I had just flown back to Jersey after spending the past months in my first semester as a college student, at the University of San Diego. My mom’s side of the family was having a family reunion at a hotel on the bay side coast of Florida. I had elected to ride down the East Coast with my mom, dad, sister, cousin, and…