The Archive

Growing up in a Filipino family, I never imagined calling a group of Italian-Americans from Medford, Mass. my family. I was always the only non-white person there, but they never let me feel out of place.

I always thought that maybe being in a relationship with me was too hard or required too much work for cis people. But the truth is, all relationships are hard and require work. It just depends on whether or not you trust each other to work hard together.

However, there are many female artists right now breaking down barriers in terms of gender, culture, and the double standard. And while the media does strive to focus on mainstream artists who are making a difference, artists outside of the pop genre have equally important messages.

MUZE, an Airbnb style music booking company, is filling a gap that we didn’t know existed. By providing a platform for local artists to connect with local venues, it is both quickly and fairly meeting the needs of each side of its customer base–changing the music business landscape as we know it.

“The entire point of having sets at all is that you get more than one person in the cast together in one place, it’s just a space where people can logically get together,” says McKenzie. “A diner serves that purpose, to have a spot that is consistent and regular.”

The 2000s gave rise to an explosive trend of blockbuster hits based on these books, with some of the most well-known films of the generation originally starting as YA novels. The Fault in Our Stars, Twilight, The Hunger Games, and even Harry Potter are classic examples of teenage-books-turned-films.

I’d tell myself I could deal with it on my own, or that it really wasn’t so bad. I knew that some people needed extra help mentally—and that I was probably one of them—but I was scared of what that would look like and how I would need to make changes in my life.

Coming to college made me realize how much of myself I tend to overexert every day in my social, work, and academic life. I slowly began to realize that while I was out and about doing all of these things with other people, I felt drained emotionally, mentally, and socially.

Growing up, I had never seen anyone who looked like me on television news. I felt like it was something I could not pursue because I didn’t have the “look” for it. But, in reality, news reporting doesn’t need to have a “look”— it needs to have integrity, honesty, and diversity, regardless of hairstyle.