For those living in Southern California, understanding the proper Earthquake protocol isn’t optional; it’s essential for survival. The Core Protocol is Drop, Cover, and Hold On. If indoors, immediately...
The history of queer coding in film is a complex narrative of survival, subterfuge, and gradual liberation. Before the Hays Code's restrictive era, queer artists like Marlene Dietrich and Dorothy Arzner...
Have you ever read the lyrics of your favorite songs? If you have, you know sometimes there’s a message that not a lot of people can hear because they just listen to the catchy tune. Music allows ideas...
Screen time was my biggest issue over the summer. And still is. I spent the majority of my time endlessly scrolling on TikTok and posting for my so-called ¨friends¨ to see where I was. I say so-called...
A very large amount of the human population has a strong craving for anything but silence. When I say noise, I mean literally anything that is considered noise. Whether it be music, the tv, birds chirping,...
There are times where if we don't get something right the first time we give up. We don't try again and say we just can't do it. When we try something new and if it takes more than a week or two, we give...
Validation is defined as “the action of checking or proving the validity or accuracy of something”. To validate a person is to say they they or something that they did is good or right. Validation...
I know it sounds odd, but I believe we require romance like oxygen for the emotional bloodstream. Not the formulaic Hollywood kind, but the messy, grungy tales that leave your heart all wobbly. Tales...
To go out, to find one’s passion, to be free.
This is the gist of exploration—as explained by most.
This passion is oft strived for, craved by the dreamers seeking to push their life’s frontiers...
We all have that one friend who gets back with their boyfriend or girlfriend after breaking up with them so many times. No matter how much they complain about them, they cannot seem to let them go. This...
High fantasy is, at its very core, a genre built around immersing readers in intricately crafted worlds in which the author can add their own spin while also taking inspiration from our own history. One...
Last Saturday protests erupted in Downtown Los Angeles, which was a result from the ICE raids and arrests that happened across LA County these arrests have impacted people who are part of a minority group....
