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For the past two months, have you noticed cat posters around campus? Perhaps it was placed above a trash can, or stuck onto a lamp post outside the kopitiam? You…
“That’s right, I killed Santa.” The words were out of my mouth, sharp and final, as I watched the light dim in my five-year-old son’s eyes. My heart clenched, painfully…
*DISCLAIMER: This article contains spoilers for the film Wicked: For Good, and centers around the author’s opinion. Just over a year ago, the world of Broadway returned to cinemas with…
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I woke up in a cornfield. The first thing I saw were the stars. It pulsed - that dotted swirl of remote diamond light, flush against the abyssal black. The…
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‘I do not wish [women] to have power over men; but over themselves’ ~Mary Wollstonecraft Chapter 1: “Boys will be boys” Now, haven’t we heard this infamous line numerous times?…
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It’s that time of the year again—the time when red lanterns adorn the streets, lively music is blasted from speakers, and lion dance troupes grace various venues with their performances,…
When I was young, young enough for the Internet to have solidified itself into something worth taking up space in our lives and before its unfortunate evolution into a machine…
Henry Vaughan placed his two cents on the subject of childhood and penned a wistful melody of the loss of heavenly innocence and the burning desire to regain it once…
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