Amidst a time when screen time dominates our days, social media trends have become  key in forming our likes and dislikes. As college students, we are the most impressionable and most likely to follow these trends. In fact, many of us have probably found ourselves subscribing to numerous…

Reflecting upon my childhood media consumption and how those movies depict Asians

The constancy of seeing a man on a tricycle every time I visit my hometown

Growing up in a predominantly Caucasian community, I was often fed Eurocentric literature in school and consumed media mainly centered around white narratives. Works by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mark Twain, John Steinbeck and Ernest Hemingway dominated my English classes. I was always hearing about what the white man…

“Crying in H Mart” by Michelle Zauner is a picture of a woman healing from the death of her mother and understanding the relationship that they both shared throughout her childhood. I read it last summer and while I knew it would be a sad read, I was…