Tales from a narcissist’s daughter — Three years ago I was able to move out. Shortly after I flew the nest that I read about Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs. What a treat! It’s a pyramid that outlines from bottom to top, what all humans need. Sounds too good to be true. For the last several hundred…

This is exactly what we asked for — On January 27th, 2023 news broke of a 19-year-old girl who’d killed her baby. According to reports, she gave birth to the baby in the hospital bathroom and then threw it in the garbage. According to reports, the baby died in the garbage. According to Alexee Trevizo, the mother, the…

Why Bryan Johnson scares me — Thanks to capitalism, we’ve found a way to optimize anything. Everything, even. Bryan Johnson has become the online face of “reverse-aging”, but not in the ways we’re used to. TikTok is full of 20-somethings selling us on preventative botox, retinol and other treatments to look as young as possible for…

It’s not what we’ve made it mean — Is it possible that the more we try to understand each other, the more racist we become? In several conversations surrounding race, especially those centred around non-black people of colour’s relationship to Black people, the term “Oppression Olympics” gets brought up. The oppression Olympics was meant to describe interracial relations…

And why it’s an important story to tell — The Barbie movie isn’t really about Barbie. It’s about a “utopia” created by Barbies. Which, is just a matriarchy. The Barbie cinematic universe is about all the various positions Barbie holds. It’s about astronaut Barbie, president Barbie, doctor, and lawyer Barbie. It’s a society that’s completely run and operated in…

They’re actually the same thing — I’d never seen such devastation on a person’s face. If he could have launched across the table and strangled me, he would have. He wanted to watch me turn blue and suffocate under his grip after I’d said it. “You can’t be anti-sex work, but okay with the NFL.” I’d…

That we’ll never really move past — With each passing year, it becomes harder to be around both sides of my family. There’s nothing that prepares you for being the black sheep. …

The exhaustion that comes uniquely with being Black — Working in new-age tech spaces opens your eyes to different concepts. A coworker and I had a mandatory DEI session that was about dealing with “Imposter Syndrom and Burnout”. These sessions rely heavily on the fact that they’re mandatory. Otherwise, who’d waste the time? I’ve known I suffered from imposter…

Can something be both good and bad at the same time? — TikTok has ironically become a hub of ‘self-help.’ Ironically, since it’s also one of the worst places online for your mental health. The endless feed of short-form content is destructive to our attention spans. While the infinite spread of beautiful people slowly gnaws away at our delicate sense of self. …