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Personal essay

Butterfly Effect: Riding the ‘L’ with Sailor Moon

On falling in love with the sailor senshi

Slut Saga: The Anonymous Ones

Chemically Castrated Since 2021

When You Call, I Answer

A personal look into the 11th annual 'Ragamala: A Celebration of South Asian Classical Music.'

A Heartbreak in Fragments

Recovering from a bad breakup in a new city.

Listen to Your Unicorns

A personal essay on the worries that come with growing out of teenagehood.

A Letter to my Mama in Kashmir

Onions here are different too. They don't make me very teary.

Resume Gaps: How I Got Fired From My Job as a Server

A series of essays by people in the SAIC community about their worst job experiences.

What Banning “Maus” Means to Me

One Jewish studentʼs response to the McMinn Country School Board banning Art Spiegelmanʼs ʻMausʼ.

It’s Ok To Run the Dishwasher Twice

How the pandemic made me re-examine the rules that dictate my life.

A One-Way Ticket In the Pandemic

On leaving the city to be with family, facing racism in the pandemic and feeling all sorts of helpless.

Notes On A Rabbit Stein, The Best Clickbait, My Kitchen Stove

Looking at things feels different now than it did before.

The Old Language of a New Virus

The way we talk about pandemics has hardly changed.

How Stardew Valley Gave Me the Perfect, Impossible Virtual Life

Video games offer the ideal fantasy life, but they can't replace the real thing.

Vaginismus: How I Reclaimed My Body

How I got my body back.

Tantrum: Pet Peeves

I hope everyone else find these things annoying too, or I'm just a bitch.