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A couple of things I liked recently: Ariana Grande’s new album, "thank u, next" and Jordan Peele’s new horror film, "Us". Random, I know, but they’re related. "Us", deals with all the things that can be hidden under a happy exterior, while one of my favorite songs on "thank u, next" is titled “fake smile.”
I like to think of myself as an independent person. The idea of being independent used to make me feel strong, and it made me want to focus on being happy rather than being openly upset when I was upset, which usually made me the girl that never seemed sad. That wasn’t a terrible thing.
The art of being black at a predominantly white institution isn’t always pretty.
The competitive nature of Penn isn’t an exaggeration. It’s to be expected that a school renowned for producing the most billionaires in America would be full of students with the goal of making as much money as possible. I’ve experienced the stress, even in my first semester, of thinking about majors in terms of potential income first and passion second. “Hard science” majors have a difficult track ahead of them. But, I also think that it is a different kind of hard to be an English major, harder still if you don’t write about politics. Harder then if out of all things to write about, you pick love — a topic that busy, cynical, overworked Penn students make no time for.
I read this excerpt of Kiese Laymon’s collection of essays “How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America” almost weekly. It is, in big part, an essay that explores violence surrounding guns and the life of a black boy — Kiese Laymon — growing up in Mississippi. More importantly, he examines how we kill and save each other every day in ways that have nothing to do with guns.
“There are just some places where it’s not enough to be me.” — Starr Carter, “The Hate U Give”
On FaceTime with a friend from high school, right after an Instagram-official couple post on my part, she teased me, “What happened to ‘I hate labels, relationships are a burden, freshman year is for the girls’ Kaliyah?”