May 16, 2022There Is No Room For Slut-Shaming in ARMYOne thing I keep in mind when seeing/dealing with fellow ARMY who seem to be crossing boundaries is that many ARMYs find BTS and come into the fandom at their worst or most vulnerable. So practically speaking, some of them are going to be at rock bottom or coming out…Bts Army7 min readBts Army7 min read
Apr 29, 2022I Had To Hide the “Idol” Music Video From My Openly Misogynistic FatherI learned my lesson when I was young. Anything that appeared to give me an escape, to distract me and give me comfort, ended up on my father’s hit list. It was random, too. …Bts5 min readBts5 min read
Published inTurtle Philosophy·Apr 22, 2022Member-onlyFine, An Exploitative Argument for Valuing Human LifeOne thing I love about my grad school classes is being able to have discussions with people from different backgrounds, contributing our differing ideas to analyze and come up with new ways of looking at the world. So it’s understandably frustrating when you’re in class, trying to do that, and…Values3 min readValues3 min read
Published inTurtle Philosophy·Feb 24, 2022Member-onlyThe Case for DehumanizationOne of the most annoying things, both in real life and on the internet, is people who dehumanize others. Because you are a woman, an immigrant, a member of the LGBT community, or the “wrong” religion, it’s okay to see you as less than human. We are dehumanized in this…Philosophy4 min readPhilosophy4 min read
Published inPortfolio (MAK)·Jan 30, 2022Member-only6 Early Women Filmmakers History Shouldn’t ForgetPerhaps it’s dumb, but I hadn’t given too much thought to older movies until I made an American friend who majored in film. Talking to her inspired my own curiosity, and YouTube fed it as I began searching for gems that don’t come up often in conversation. This is how…Movies5 min readMovies5 min read
Published inTurtle Philosophy·Jan 24, 2022Member-onlyI Didn’t Realize Cancel Culture Was New*This was originally published on my personal blog in 2020. It has been edited as necessary. It’s something I’ve seen come across my social media timeline often enough and brought up in conversations several times. Everyone keeps referencing “cancel culture”, like this is something new. …4 min read4 min read
Published inTurtle Philosophy·Jan 22, 2022Member-onlyLoving — Unnecessary GenderingThis was originally published on my personal blog in 2020. It has been edited as necessary. This is part of a larger series on the Art of Loving by Erich Fromm. As I’ve worked on trying to summarize Fromm’s ideas for my own self, you might have noticed that there…Philosophy4 min readPhilosophy4 min read
Published inTurtle Philosophy·Jan 22, 2022Member-onlyLoving — The Love We All Secretly Care the Most AboutThis was originally published on my personal blog in 2020. It has been edited as necessary. This is part of a larger series on the Art of Loving by Erich Fromm. Now, of course, we come to what preoccupies most people when they think of love — romantic/erotic love. The…Philosophy2 min readPhilosophy2 min read
Published inTurtle Philosophy·Jan 20, 2022Member-onlyLoving — The Hardest LoveThis was originally published on my personal blog in 2020. It has been edited as necessary. This is part of a larger series on the Art of Loving by Erich Fromm. And finally, we get to the hardest aspect of true love. Self-love. It certainly gets a bad rap since…Love3 min readLove3 min read
Published inTurtle Philosophy·Jan 18, 2022Member-onlyLoving — The Basest LoveThis was originally published on my personal blog in 2020. It has been edited as necessary. This is part of a larger series on the Art of Loving by Erich Fromm. Now in some sense, I suppose fatherly/motherly love has an even deeper foundation, in the concept of brotherly love…Love2 min readLove2 min read
