CW: Profanity, derogatory term for genitalia.  How This Blog Post Came to Be I fell into K-Pop rabbit-hole during high school and the primary way this interest of mine has come to fruition in college is through the K-Pop dance club here at UChicago (neXus). Something else I realized through my time in college is […]

“Taylor Swift ruined the NFL”. I recently overheard a group of guys talk about this as they watched an NFL game. The new celebrity relationship between Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce has quickly become the center of pop culture news.  Taylor Swift is a globally recognized pop artist who recently became the first individual to […]

In Juchitan de Zaragoza, Oaxaca there is a belief that the patron saint of the city, San Vincente Ferrer, created muxes. The legend goes that he carried with him a bag full of seeds that he was going to spread across the world. There were male seeds, female seeds, and a bag mixed with both. […]

Introduction As an avid fan of all sorts of book, film, and video game franchises, it often strikes me that the media I consume tends to be very male-oriented. Generally, I find that protagonists in action and horror media tend to be men supported by a cast of mostly men and that their antagonists are […]

Think back to when you were a child walking through the aisles of Toys”R”Us  looking to pick out a toy for Christmas or a birthday present. Toy stores like these are filled with endless colorful aisles which are meant to capture your attention. However, when shopping there are certain queues that may guide a parent […]

As far as I am aware, the only requirement to be goth is to like goth music. And, I love goth music. So, I guess that makes me goth. I also have a tattoo of a raven on my back, so the aesthetic is clearly also apart of my life in some capacity. Artists like […]

  As a kid, one of my favorite toys I played in my living room with was my Barbie. She had blonde hair, blue eyes, and was dressed in a hot pink cocktail dress. I would make Barbie hang out with other Barbies, have sleepovers, and sometimes she even traveled all the way to the […]

  *Quote from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte that fits the theme well* In the past centuries, in order to avoid the backlash of being a woman, publishing works using pseudonyms became a common practice. It was believed that if women used pseudonyms to publish their writing, it would give them a much better chance to break […]

During high school, one of my friends always had an alarm that went off at 4pm, right when I would knock on her door to walk to swim practice with her. The alarm was named Fetus Deletus — it was her daily reminder to take her birth control pill. Even though she would always forget […]