Having lived in Japan for my whole life, I grew up watching the renowned Studio Ghibli films. Ever since I was in elementary school, I was mesmerized by the films’ attention to detail through hand-drawn animations, which in effect makes everything more relatable and…
If you could be someone different, who would you be? No matter who you are, you’ve probably had an impulse to experiment with your identity. The easiest way to do this, in my opinion, is by lying online.
Divergence from the gender binary has long been a taboo within mainstream Western culture, but…
Growing up, I struggled to formulate a personal perception of my own femininity. I would spend mornings before school watching tv where I was bombarded with different definitions of womanhood…
I have found myself stuck, both in this class and in my major when it comes to writing about…
I’ve only explored transracial adoption for a small amount of time even though it makes up a large part of my identity–of who I am. I have my own story and experience of adoption, seen in my WP1. I’ve learned about other…
Everyone has friends who act like the “main character” in almost every situation. Their lives are filled with drama, and somehow it seems like everything revolves around them. Still, most people don’t truly understand the implications of being viewed as a main or…
I’ve always wondered why it was so hard to be Black in America, why I have to work that much harder just to be seen as average by everyone else. I grew up in a small predominantly white town in Southern California, all I knew…
A person’s individuality is made up of many bits of people and experiences. It’s easy to trace who we are through our loved ones and our memories. Yet, now as the media evolves, we too, as a technologically…
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is “a psychiatric disorder that may occur in people who have experienced or witnessed a traumatic event such as a natural disaster, a serious accident, a terrorist act, war/combat, or rape or…
When looking at cinema throughout history, it is evident that the industry has failed to give Indians positions of power in front of and behind the camera. In the few projects that filmmakers have attempted to create Indian characters, their personas are usually riddled…
