Columns
| Here Is a Song
To Grow, To Burn Things Down, To Start Again
I wanted to quit, to move back to what I knew because the unknown was actually too scary.
Columns
| Here Is a Song
On the Songs That Make You Feel Strong
“Sexy Results” was my go-to walking anthem. If I was a baseball player, this would have been my entrance song.
Columns
| Here Is a Song
On the Nature of Legacies and Joanna Newsom’s “Sapokanikan”
Who will remember me when I am gone? Will my stories exist beyond my life? And what about the things we already forgot?
Columns
| Here Is a Song
Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs Taught Me to Break Free from the Model Minority Myth
Being good at working hard felt like a tired routine. Being polite was starting to grate.
Arts & Culture
| Music
As a Woman of Color, I’m Told I Can’t Show Anger—So I Let Courtney Love Do it for Me
Because it’s still more acceptable for white women than it is for women of color to show anger, I scream-sing along to Courtney Love’s rage.