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You Create Intricate Rituals: The Homoerotic Action Movie

Smart People on Ice: A Case for Setting Coming-of-Age Films in College

Editors' Note - April 2023

Artist Spot: Elizabeth Pamboukian

Elizabeth and I sat down in early March 2021 to talk about her project Rappers as Food, which began out of boredom in August of 2019....

I'm Broken, Let Me Fix You

For the quote-unquote therapist friend and anyone that has googled “reasons to accept that I am worthy of love.”

The Curse of Shondaland

It’s been an eventful year on planet Earth, that goes without saying. For the emotionally mature among us, lockdown has directed our...

I Feel Like the Fat Villain in My Own Life

Fat is bad. That’s been taught to me since I was a child. Characters like Ursula and the Queen of Hearts showed me the blueprint for an...

Coping Through Creation

Some kids looked up to superheroes when they were growing up. Others turned to public servants or pop stars. As a socially-anxious...

Small Town Therapy: The Journey to Getting My Meds Right

It took a lot of convincing to get my mother to take me to see a therapist. In my Southern Baptist hometown, sadness was viewed as a...

How Traveling Europe Saved My Life

I was encouraged to apply to study abroad by a guy I was head over heels for. I romanticized the idea, I was going to have the...

Editors' Note - March 2021

Growing up, I was always told I was “blossoming” into a young lady. I had books and magazines to guide me through the changes in life and...

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