Capsule
How to kill your darlings
A death in fiction can be either powerful or aggravating, so what separates the “good” from the “bad?”
By Ethan Huang
Does my rape culture look like yours?
What Italy has taught me about gender violence in America
By Maria Vittoria Borghi
Alienation and the international student
A reflection on loneliness as an international student in the U.S.
By Shyloh Koo
You better know the lowrider
With cruising laws lifted, lowriders roll L.A.’s streets once more. But are they free?
“Barbie” laments everything, respects nothing
Ducking behind self-conscious copouts, Gerwig deftly avoids the responsibility to ground Barbie in logic, reality—or anything, really—talking at her audience indignantly under the unassailable guise of feminism.
By Wellesley Mobasser
A Vigil’s View: Processing Grief At Monterey Park
A reflection on the Monterey Park mass shooting, one year later.
The queer hooligans of L.A.’s rugby scene
Rebellion Rugby prides itself on being inclusive – and on not being the only ones
