Stuff I like to write about:

American Politics

Especially elections, municipal politics, and ideological trends.

Race and Identity

Takes from an Asian girl from a not-so-perfect country living in another not-so-perfect country.

Pop Culture

Consumerism and capitalism — that is, when nothing good is on TV.

Satire and Fiction

You’d have to talk to my agent, it’s all very secret 😘

Whimsical Takeaways From the Iowa Democratic Caucus
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Whimsical Takeaways From the Iowa Democratic Caucus

The Iowa caucus, some say, has always set the tone for the cycle’s party nominations and Presidential election. Well, if the Democratic Party were to learn anything from the last Iowa caucus, it’s how to mix things up a little. You know, for fun.

Graphic awarded Fourth place, Editorial Cartoon, Society for Collegiate Journalists Annual National Contest 2021

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Lights, Camera, Gun Violence?
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Lights, Camera, Gun Violence?

Everything from influences of early gun ownership to the social consequences of repeated shootings has come under scrutiny, especially in relations to public attitude of gun control and gun violence. And yet, it seems to me, hardly anybody is paying attention to one of the greatest sources of social influence: movies, more specifically blockbusting, bloody, shooting-people’s-heads-off type of movie.

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Sequels: No Ending Ever Ends
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Sequels: No Ending Ever Ends

It is no secret that studios favor sequels because of the ready fanbase and name recognition they offer — the creative and financial investments that went into the first movie continue to pay off and draw dedicated audience to the cinema, a hard thing to do with such low cinema attendance nowadays.

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Where Does Art Meet Politics?
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Where Does Art Meet Politics?

Can art even be apolitical? Can anything, at that, be apolitical? What is politics, after all? In these modern days and age, we are too consumed by politicians espousing ideologies that we automatically think of politics as Red, Blue, Green, etc. But really, at its core, politics is about power.

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What Makes Horror?
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What Makes Horror?

As various Atlanta cinemas show horror movies both old and new for Halloween-seasonal entertainment, local experts shared their thoughts on horror filmmaking.

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Empowerment Exploited
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Empowerment Exploited

Feminism has come a long way from its primal days of demanding votes for women. Political equality, sexual liberation and workplace empowerment — they’re some of the most momentous causes that this ever-evolving force has been fighting for. One need not look into politics to see the proof, just in the advertisements of various industries.

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