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Your mental illness isn't real

I hope there comes a day when we can learn to stop listening to those who continue to doubt whether I and others living with mental illness are truly struggling. 

You do not have to be good

It is strange and fascinating to be in a place that positively reinforces just showing up and being myself.

Thanksgiving: Blue Devil edition

Although we’ve finished our 2019 Thanksgiving dinners, let’s give thanks as Blue Devils as we continue on our journeys at Duke.

What does homecoming mean to you?

As soon as I come home, for better or for worse, I feel myself conforming into the usual comfortable habits of mine.

When Shooters becomes a substitute for therapy

At the cusp of every final’s season—including this current one included—there is a heightened sense of anxiety in the people around me.

Your essential Bon Appétit reading list

This world is hard, and doesn’t make sense, but I have never had a bad day that wasn’t alleviated by watching these kind, brilliant people cook and laugh together.

Blind spots

Thanksgiving conversations made me more aware of the uncomfortable fact that safe spaces like Duke and our own family structures blind us to larger societal inequities.

Getting lost in the free sauce

In the end, the ethics of taking a public good is a matter of common sense and decency. Sometimes things just feel wrong. If you feel the need to be furtive, don’t do it. Let your conscience be your guide.

Blues from the bad news

The confidence of a mediocre white male

Am I qualified? Am I that good? When will people find out that I'm a farce? Why am I applying to all these jobs? 

When the unexamined becomes the unlived

My call to action is finding the balance between taking time to introspect and taking action to make positive change in our community. 

Ok millennial

Just as elders are not prima facie a source of wisdom, youth isn’t necessarily a fountain of low time preference.

A chronic pain playlist

Music does not cure chronic pain; nothing does. But it certainly helps.

Monday Monday asked you for tiny love stories. Here’s what you sent.

And I'll never forget those words you said next: "They did surgery on a grape." It was cold that night. But you were so warm.

Stephen Miller can find love...but I can't?

And even if I haven’t found my Modern Love-r, my true Tinder match or my college romance; even if I have made mistakes and messed up, I have humanized and given and advocated and fought. I have loved. 

Why is a white woman teaching a black feminism writing class?

Sometimes, you really do have to just stay in your lane, especially when it comes to collective experiences of race, identity, sexuality, and gender that one simply does not have.

Why do most Asian students pursue 'practical' majors?

 I intend to major in English, but even with my convictions about the importance of Asian representation in the arts , I know I will double with another major of which my mom will approve. 

A life lesson from my therapist

We must support others while keeping in mind their autonomy, facilitating their own journey towards a place of self-understanding and fulfillment. After all, we are more than a puzzle to be solved, a project to be fixed. We are human. 

Is going through the reporting process worth it?

Survivors face this trauma, isolation and shame even without a sexual assault investigation hanging over their heads.