Goodbye, Gotham

For nearly three months, every other week, I’ve been blogging. It’s been an interesting process and I hope whoever has been reading them has gotten a good sense of who I am. I know it’s only been five blog posts, and this one being number six. However, I think they’ve covered my varied interests and...

Black Panther is a Tale of Caution and Hope

Warning: If you haven’t seen Black Panther yet, there are spoilers ahead. Black Panther is making waves culturally for all people of color (POC). It’s giving us representation in a medium where we rarely get it, or if we do, then we’re in a typecast role that really doesn’t do justice to the depth and...

Always the Reader, never the Writer

I’ve always described myself as more of a reader than a writer. Since I learned to read, I’ve always had my nose in a book. When it came to write creatively in school, I’d always have ideas, but they would always fizzle out once they hit the page. Sometimes I’d get the occasional burst of...

Always A Little Behind The Times

I don’t really follow pop culture. Like, at all. Nowadays, I have more of a cursory knowledge of pop culture only because of the inescapable onslaught of media from Twitter, commercials, Facebook, I could go on and on. The reason I bring this up is that it's always been a little weird to be on...

A New Adventure

As I start this new opportunity interning for Gotham, I can’t help but look at the path I took to get here. When I entered college, I was a Biology major with aspirations to become a researcher or go to medical school. As I took more and more biology classes, I continued to enjoy being...

Journey into My New Life

I've spent most of the last two years on my couch, in my bed, or on my grandmother’s couch. I was perusing Instagram and Facebook, only to view my friends and peers post fabulous vacation pictures or write statuses about their various opportunities to achieve upward job mobility and success. Meanwhile, I was stagnant. Oh,...