The pandemic struck and brought a bunch of consequences (y’all know what it caused, it has been over a year), apparently. Things get even more complicated when we are stuck at home and barely have…
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Growing up, I loved The Oscars. Starting when I was around 13, so old enough for the context of most nominated films, I would watch every film nominated for Best Picture, often with a group…
At 4 AM sharp, the charging iPhone screen lit up a corner of the room. The alarm blasted violently through the quiet night. “Ahhhhhhh, shut the FUCK up!” As quick as the way it came,…
The premier season of THEM, from creator Little Marvin, was released on 4/9/2021 to the Amazon Prime streaming service. This first season is intended to be the beginning of an anthology series, in a similar…
The Somali community in the United States has been around since the early ‘80s. It started when a group of young college students immigrated here for better opportunities in their field. But in 1991, a…
I happened to watch one of Li Ziqi’s videos several years ago and I was blown away. Her cuisine, craftwork, the process of building things from scratch, and nature at her home location in Sichuan,…
It’s been a year since the lockdown due to COVID-19. We, international students, have been through so much mess in every aspect possible. We went through the time when former President Trump’s administration tried to…
This time last year, news began to spread about the impending threat of COVID-19, yet the implications of the virus were undermined by misinformation, misconception, and an innocent, underlying naivety that left us – as…
On Feb. 19, Governor Jay Inslee signed House Bill 1368, which appropriates $2.2 billion in federal funding allocation to states in response to the ongoing COVID emergency. Out of this $2.2 billion, $714 million supports…
I have a lot of very conservative friends on Facebook. And I had my chance to delete them years ago when “if you think (insert shitty opinion here), then just delete yourself from my page”…