We define who we are by establishing who we are not. If I am rich, then there is a “they” who are poor. Am I liberal or conservative? Man or woman? Introvert or extrovert? Good or bad? This is a general rule of thumb for most of us. Even the…

Society grooms women to be beautiful, silent, and obedient while it grooms men to be emotionless, unapologetic and to chase money. Any deviance from this template inevitably comes with pushback. A woman who falls on the peripheries of beauty will be looked down upon and deemed less legitimate. She will…

2020 started off with a bang- and not the good kind. It seems as though the 20/20 vision we all claimed to have in the new decade blurred quite quickly. Wherever you look, the entire world is descending into apocalyptic chaos- Wildfires, World War 3? These W problems, raise W…

On November 18, 2017, Kanye West in collaboration with Adidas released the Yeezy Boost 350 V2 in Semi Frozen Yellow. Upon release, the $220 shoe sold out in 15 to 30 seconds. How do you rationalise such an irrational occurrence? This phenomenon is prompted by a sales tactic employed by…

Kylie Jenner is both a product and a symbol of our generation. Having grown up in a not-so-real reality tv world, she was thrust under the spotlight at the age of 10 and catapulted to fame in her teenage years. I would imagine being Kylie Jenner would feel a lot…

A series of incidents with a girl who I considered a friend or at the very least an amiable acquaintance inspired me to question the intricacies of interactions between women. The more I reflected on this maze of female companionship, the clearer it became that we as women entangle ourselves…

On the same day every year, people around the world indulge in a little self-reflection. Perhaps, they could have benefited more from this self-reflection had it been carried out on a more consistent basis as opposed to being prompted by an arbitrary social construction of time. …

As a millennial having grown up in the digital media era, most people my age (myself included) project two versions of themselves; one that exists in real life and the other to serve as a proxy identity within the realm of the internet. We meticulously craft profiles with wittily-captioned overly-filtered…