I was impassioned to talk about this after watching Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein” a couple of nights ago, and the passion has not faded. With Halloween just around the corner, I want to share my opinion on who the real monster is in Frankenstein’s story (Spoiler: it’s not him). Let me first make it clear that I don’t mean Victor Frankenstein: I mean his creation. The whole “Don’t you mean Frankenstein’s monster?” is an outdated pedantic way of viewing him because, in my

The dating world in 2025 is nothing short of hell. Last week, I corrected a man who called me the wrong name on a dating app, and he responded by calling me aggressive. This isn’t anything new, and I’m definitely not an angel in these interactions either. In a post-pandemic world, romance seems to have fizzled out. For the most part, when the pandemic shut the world down, Gen Z was in high school and middle school. Normally, this is the time to learn what you want out of a re

I, and I'm sure many of you all reading this, love cats. They’re cute, playful, soft, and full of lovable personality. It's what draws me to cats. But for some people, that very personality might be the thing they find most egregious. As a feline lover myself, I adore cats. And one important factor in building a relationship with a cat is how you treat them. Cats have their own mannerisms that demand their own corresponding actions. Are you holding your hand out for the cat t

Eyes trained in front of me through the net, waiting for the downbeat. Imagine a punchbag recoil and now you’ve seen me,  flung backwards. My glasses frame exploded inward,  the metal digging into me.The glass had the mercy  not to bend and shatter. Didn’t notice til it healed in a straight line  like someone had raked their nail across the bridge of my nose. I was bleeding straight, the copper frame bridge shoved into my skin like strangers elbowing into each other when the

There’s this quote by Kait Rokowski that reads: “Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was...

Disclaimer: Students’ actual names have been changed for the purpose of privacy.      I didn’t have much experience with kids. Prior to...

Performative males. Spooky. Maybe some of you have heard of them, maybe some of you even attended the performative male contests that have been floating around (and if you have, I’m jealous).    The term has been thrown around pretty loosely in my personal experience, so I felt the need to have a chat about it. I must preface this chat by saying that men do not need me to defend them or their behaviors (nor do I want to), but as someone who is passionate about letting people

Starting college as a freshman often comes with a big change: staying away from home for the first time. Sure, maybe you’ve gone on trips...

Octavia Butler’s Bloodchild  is a provocative sci-fi story that reimagines gender roles and reproductive power. Published in 1984, the...

There is a buttercup peaking up from the soil, the morning sun a slanted blanket It is plucked by a child for his bouquet Petals soft,...