Trigger warning: body image, eating disorders I would definitely not be the first to say I’ve struggled with my body image — you might think “who hasn’t?”, and that’s exactly the problem. So many of us are made to feel like we aren’t beautiful enough or simply like we aren’t enough, and that’s a realContinue reading “Who Says You Have to Be Beautiful?”
Category Archives: Eda Saridogan
The Missing Women Problem in Fiction
I have to confess something: I’m at a point in my life where I am unable to enjoy films, shows or books that are so clearly geared towards a male audience. What do I mean by this? I mean, if there are no women in the story, or the women are reduced to mere loveContinue reading “The Missing Women Problem in Fiction”
Exploring the Liminoid: A Metamodernist Look at Non-Being
When I was a kid, my parents and I would go visit my grandparents every weekend. It was a fun ordeal that I would always look forward to, but the drive back home late at night was something I dreaded without knowing why. Sitting in the backseat, looking out onto the endless traffic on theContinue reading “Exploring the Liminoid: A Metamodernist Look at Non-Being”
Yoga to Feel Your Best
Many people, myself included, have turned to yoga during quarantine these past few months. I was first made aware of it a couple years ago, tried it a couple of times but was never consistent with it until this year for a couple of reasons: one, having been forced indoors by the virus I neededContinue reading “Yoga to Feel Your Best”
Meet the Board: Eda and Alexandra
“New school year, new me,” I say as I close my newly-bought weekly planner. Cautiously but determinedly wading into the last year of my English BA, I am set on making it count. I have a new planner after all; I must be organized! Alex and I have been entrusted with the care of thisContinue reading “Meet the Board: Eda and Alexandra”
An Ode to Wilde
Artwork found on The Oliver Gal Artist Co If, with the literate, I amImpelled to try an epigram,I never seek to take the credit;We all assume that Oscar said it. — Dorothy Parker, 1927 My first encounter with Oscar Wilde’s writing was in sophomore year of high school when my English teacher announced that theContinue reading “An Ode to Wilde”
From Vinyl to Spotify: A Look at Physical Possessions
Paul Signac, Portrait of Félix Fénéon Not to sound like a boomer, but nowadays, our entire lives are spent behind screens. I’m not saying it’s necessarily a bad thing! Technology has allowed us to achieve some pretty amazing feats, but it is no lie that most of us probably spend too much time on ourContinue reading “From Vinyl to Spotify: A Look at Physical Possessions”
An Ode to “The Good Place”
It’s not often that a sitcom makes you both laugh out loud and ponder on moral philosophy, but NBC’s The Good Place (2016) does it with such ease and delight. Created by Michael Schur (same dude who created Parks and Recreation and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, so you can trust he knows what he’s doing), The GoodContinue reading “An Ode to “The Good Place””
Mental Health in the Workplace: How Capitalism Destroys Leisure
You know that feeling you get when you know you should be studying or working, but you’re watching Netflix instead? That gut-wrenching guilt that comes not just with procrastination, but also with doing anything with your free time that’s not school/work related? That’s a result of capitalism. In my article In Defense of Anarchism, IContinue reading “Mental Health in the Workplace: How Capitalism Destroys Leisure”
Why Do We Write?
“Every English major secretly wants to be a writer.” This is a sentence that’s often thrown around in literature classes, but what does it actually mean? We study the greats because we want to be one of the greats? To be fair, I suppose, who wouldn’t want to be at par with Dickens or Fitzgerald?Continue reading “Why Do We Write?”
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