Last week, I attended my first ever protest, where at 28, I was 20 years older than many of my fellow protestors. This protest, the School Strike for Climate Change, came at the end of a week where I’ve been thinking a lot about the future, and the nature of stories. Specifically, I’ve been thinking … Continue reading My first, perfectly-imperfect protest
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The Best of Beat (with some stuff on the side)
My first real gig as a writer was working as a freelance music journalist. I use the word 'gig' here intentionally because more often than not, I was in it for the tickets. A few of these magazines did pay, but most of them were freebies. That said, they were fun freebies, and they gave … Continue reading The Best of Beat (with some stuff on the side)
Living Statues
The idea of ‘authenticity’ was something we talked about a lot in my undergrad anthropology classes. As it was a class full of millennials, most of this discussion focused on social media, our digital selves, and travel, particularly backpackers, who were often considered to be travelling with this idea of authenticity as a major part … Continue reading Living Statues
