This year, I learned there is nothing I want to buy. I don’t want a new outfit. I don’t want to go to a new city. I don’t want to eat overpriced food. I don’t want to ride on an airplane. The only things I really want are to live…

I can’t remember a world without Britney Spears. She colored my earliest memories as a little girl on her way to kindergarten on a big yellow bus. Britney’s voice was the soundtrack to these young memories, but her presence penetrated beyond the airwaves. Britney was also on plastic backpacks and…

The Sexual Revolution Wars: Cuties, Epstein, Conspiracies and a Real Problem Whenever the news cycle becomes just a little silent, underneath all the talk of elections, the Black Lives Matter movement, dead supreme court justices, COVID-19, and fears of fascism or communism, faint murmurings begin about another monstrous issue of…

High school graduation is great. You’ve spent the last decade-plus of your life in school, and now you need to decide what to do with the rest of your life, in a world even the savviest of adults are struggling to navigate. As a millennial, I remember discussing with my…

It’s a question we’ve asked since the beginning of time: When should you hook up with someone? For years, pop culture (and the loudest person at any party) made hooking up seem easy, effortless, safe, and sometimes hot…but then there came the #MeToo movement. In the face of global health…

I was bored on a train circa 2018 the time when I first downloaded Tik Tok. There were some comedy clips similar to the now defunct platform Vine, and some videos that played with a dual-screen illusion. But mostly, Tik Tok was 15-year-old kids lip-syncing lyrics while blinking doe-eyed at…