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From childhood, we’re often asked what we want to be when we grow up. Some of us want to be doctors, firefighters, engineers, etc. Others aren’t sure and have vague ideas or even no idea what they want to do for so much of their adult lives. As we grow older though, many of us change our plans. Why is that?

WP1 REVISED: create your avatar

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for the lost boys.

..who work out to find themselves and don’t know how to call death to their ego

Athletics and Queer Discourse

As a kid on the beach with my brother’s friends and on the football field at recess in elementary school, I was always the girl playing sports with the boys. Playing baseball and soccer was much more exciting to me than playing house with the girls, but I never thought much…

WP1 REVISED: Exposing Hollywood’s Fake Narrative to Develop Real Equality in Storytelling

When people look back at the film industry, or more specifically, Hollywood, 100 years ago, and compare it to today’s world, most of them would think that we, as a society, have…

WP1: Walking On

When I opened the email in the middle of my Astronomy 100 class, my dream of becoming part of USC football had come true, “After speaking with our coaching staff, we would like to extend you all an invitation to participate as walk-on members of our football program — congratulations!” The phrase…

Bonded, Yet Separate: The Journey to Individual Identity in Twin Relationships

WP1 香蕉人’s Journey to the West

Growing up, I hated Asian American stereotypes and did all I could to distinguish myself from them. Popular culture portrays us as people who covet boring but decent-paying jobs while shunning creative ones — the Asian doctor or lawyer joke is ubiquitous. As we grind to pursue these professions…

WP1: Dancing Lions, Commodifying History

The lion sits cross-legged and motionless while it peels a mandarin orange in its mouth

When you were a child you were deathly afraid of lion dances. The thundering gongs and…

Everybody was NOT Kung Fu fighting: Fighting Stereotypes and Reclaiming Cultural Identity

Whenever I say I do Chinese Martial Arts, I generally get two types of responses from people. Those who ask me what it is because they genuinely have no idea — and I don’t blame…