Grocery List Poems by Rhiannon McGavin (Not a Cult Media, 2021)
There’s something hypnotic about Rhiannon McGavin’s sophomore poetry collection, Grocery List Poems.
The Cassette Diaries
But I was just really thinking of like, girlhood and that feeling of creativity and experiencing so many things for the first time and like, starting to build your identity… I wanted to talk about that because sometimes when talking about coming-of-age experiences in media they are really personal. But we don’t talk about that thing of wanting to create things and I feel like all these girls have that.
How Memory Changes Us For Good
When she was 5-years old, she already knew where she wanted to be in her life. And at 25-years old she remembered after she heard a song on the radio at a Chinese restaurant.
How author Talia Hibbert is creating inclusive realities for Black women in romance
Now, Talia Hibbert’s Brown Sister book series allowed me to reimagine a reality in which Black women can be loved completely and unconditionally. In her novels, Hibbert emphasizes that Black women don't need to struggle in romantic relationships nor do Black women have to settle for a partner.
Sleep Hygiene 101: A Guide to Waking Up Bright-eyed and Bushy-tailed
Sleep hygiene is the stuff you do to get the best possible night’s sleep. It’s important because, well, who doesn’t want a good night’s sleep? How else do you expect to function? Here are some tips for improving your night-time routine and overall quality of sleep.
On Learning to Let Go
As humans, we grieve transition. Letting go also requires proper grieving without shame or guilt. With all I’ve given up, let go, or lost, I’ve given myself the space to grieve what mattered to me. So, how do you learn to let go? Just commit to letting go, stand behind it, and trust that you’ll be okay because you know what’s best for you.
On moving on after heartache
Severe or not, heartache can’t really be moved on from; it’s never truly gone. Instead, it just whispers itself away, gently losing its potency until, for some reason or another, it is suddenly drawn back.
5 Things I Learned In 2020
2020: The year of hardships, anxiety, masks, and hand sanitizer. But also the year of growth. When looking back at the past 12 months, I realized that the most meaningful lessons came out of my most challenging times. Here are 5 things that I learned in 2020.
Six Designers to Look Out For in 2021
Despite the standstill that has been brought among us due to lockdown and quarantine, designers have tried to remain creative and find different ways to innovate their existing ideas while coming up with new ones.
Reviving the Bucket List
But in the actual end it doesn’t really matter, does it? It’s not about the list. It’s what the list stands for: honesty and bravery. The importance lies within your ability to even make the list and the fun comes in your willingness to complete it.
On the Precipice of Dreams and Reality
The inability to distinguish dreams from reality is another oddball of narcolepsy that no one really mentions. They aren’t all bizarre, sometimes it’s just having a conversation with someone in a dream and then going about my day as if it actually happened.
You Remind Me of my Dad
Now, in my relationships, I don’t even know if I love the person or if I’m saying I do because I’m hoping that if I go inside their mind, take over their thoughts, maybe then, they can try to love me like I wish I could love myself.
Unpacking My Obsession With Difficult Women
Through the gaps between my nana’s fingers, I watched the character of Amy Dunne spin her calculated personality every way she could to get what she wanted. It took me years to understand that she wasn’t simply the antagonist who was trying to get back at her husband, but she was a woman who had been wronged by so many people in her life that she needed to regain control.
A Homemade Halloween Watchlist
From horror, thriller & science fiction to corny/cult classics, here are some of the best movies to add to your October watchlist in anticipation of Halloween.
Ode To The Sleepover
I miss sleepovers if I’m being honest. I went to an all-girls school, and while my nostalgia limply hangs itself on the memory of an exclusively female space – something which I find myself constantly trying to carve out of the adult world.
Book Review: Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
Moreover, the genre of speculative fiction is one that seeks to re-imagine current history, reality, and observed phenomena, in a super-natural or futuristic context, in a way that challenges our limited imagination of true freedom as well as oppression. Children of Blood and Bone explores many real concepts of liberation for Black people.
out
But I’m out—out of there, and out of the closet, though it took me years to come to terms with it, even here, even now. To be completely honest, sometimes, I still feel the urge to hide that part of myself, turn it around as if it were a framed photograph on the wall of my old apartment.
This Could Mean Something One Day: Exploring the Transportive Power of Art
The content we are currently consuming on a daily basis will, perhaps, unintentionally become a greater part of our lives. For the time being, however, the significance of the music we listen to, the movies we watch, and the books we read is unknown.
What does abolishing the police actually look like?
For many skeptics, police abolition seems like an unsafe solution to begin the work towards dismantling white supremacy. So, let’s examine the problem with police as we know it in a broader sense: first, the entire justice system in the United States criminalizes homelessness, sex work, and drug addiction; therefore, rendering people without stable housing, sex workers, and those suffering from addiction unprotected by the law and from those who enforce the law.
An Ode to My (Second) Youth: The Three K-pop Albums Defining My Twenties
Even though I’ve long since embraced the truth that there’s life beyond fangirling and K-pop, I honestly think that K-pop has brought a lot of good things in my life. More than the music and the concepts that are built around them, it’s the community that can make K-pop a soothing and potentially life-changing force in an individual’s life.