From a black girl who loves braids — Chris Rock was the first major celebrity to expose the Black hair industry in a mainstream context. For a long time, Black hair, especially Black women’s hair has been so heavily politicized, people are scared to approach the topic. There’s a lot of history behind the who, what, where, and…

Disordered eating and body dysmorphia are not only women’s issues — Recently, the Liver King, one of the internet’s most beloved body-builders, was caught using steroids. Liver King was known online for promoting the ‘ancestral lifestyle’. A lifestyle promoting getting back to the way our ‘ancestors’ lived. This involved exercising extensively and eating a diet primarily made of raw liver, bone…

Peter-Pan syndrome gone awry — A few months ago Live Nation hosted a festival called ‘When We Were Young.’ Right on the cups of Travis Scott’s Astroworld tragedy, also hosted by Live Nation, the internet was rather skeptical. They were skeptical of its safety, and its intentions. The premise of the festival was selling nostalgia…

Every building is safer with multiple exit routes — TikTok is the breeding ground for some of the best and worst discourse the internet has to offer. TikTok allows for such an unimaginable reach for short, easily consumable content, it’s frightening the traction some ideas get. Unfortunately, given the nature of the app, nuance is often lost in most…

We’re not asking the right question — Body Positivity and Fat Acceptance are the Internet’s latest frontier of inclusion. Though not synonymous, both movements work together to educate about fatphobia and dismantle beauty standards. The Body positivity movement has its roots within disabled people, people of colour and diverse marginalized groups uncovering ways to love their bodies. …

Historically, it’s always been about men — With the end of the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show in 2018, fashion began to see the fall of the early 2000s “skinny” trend. The early 2000s were the peak time for diet culture. Thus, Victoria’s Secret, like many others, relied heavily on selling this image to its audience. An image…

And it’s racist that you care — Not My Ariel has been an ongoing trend since Halle Bailey was revealed to be Ariel in Disney’s live-action remake of the Little Mermaid. Often, asinine takes like this end up at the forefront of the culture war. Once she was announced as the new little mermaid, #NotMyAriel began trending…

With a little bit of racism too. — The clean girl aesthetic is a slicked-back bun, minimal makeup and hoop earrings. A trend that’s been prevalent in black and brown communities for centuries. A “style” that young brown girls have been wearing to church and school for their entire lives Fashion is cyclical. Everything that’s popular now was…

Reddit may just be the breeding ground of revolution Some of the most popular pages on Reddit in the last two years have been r/overemployed and r/antiwork. While both of these threads appear antithetical to each other, they’re quite similar. They speak to the environment surrounding workers in the present…