As a young woman who is one quarter Japanese through my mother, it outright infuriates me to see Asians discriminated against, notably women. And this discrimination often comes in the form of stereotypes.
For...
In a place I go to dodge my other responsibilities, a place I consider a safe haven and a place that often hides me as well as I hide my addiction to it, the phrase “no ethical consumption under capitalism”...
There was once a little girl obsessed with the Disney movie The Little Mermaid. Though lacking in red hair and a tail, Ariel was reflected in her through curiosity: the defining trait of the princess and...
Avani Kashyap, Daily News/Assignment Editor
• May 14, 2021
If I had a dollar for every time I looked at my Home Access Center, freaked out over my subpar grades and turned into a math whiz to see what score I needed on the next test to max the class, I would be...
Two years ago, when I joined The Sidekick, I wasn’t quite sure if the program was a fit for me.
Contrarily, as I wrote my first story, I noticed how fulfilled I felt after learning about someone...
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Dear Reader,
My name is Akhila Gunturu.
That’s 13 letters total. Six and seven in English, three syllables each in Telugu.
A-khi-la....
I started the school year with clear skin.
I was a very hopeful incoming junior. Online school meant an easy GPA boost, I was on the leadership team for The Sidekick and I was going to get a perfect...
The journey to adulthood can be a handshake, sometimes a kick and a scream, crawls for some, sprints for others, stings a fifth and consumes the remaining.
High school is the bridge between the sweetness...
To Whom It May Concern,
You’ve probably seen The Breakfast Club, right?
A movie about five high school students so different from each other that it feels impossible for them to do anything other...
I am a failure.
I do things every single day that make me more of a failure than I was before. I procrastinate, don’t exercise or spend way too much time passively scrolling through YouTube, searching...
On Feb. 14, the day before the historic winter storm sparked power outages across the state, I laid on my back in the snow in my front yard, stared up at the sky and watched the flakes fall.
Supine...
After a semester and a half of doing school from a desk in my parents’ bedroom, I finally made the switch to in-person learning for the last quarter of the school year. It was a good thing my fifth period...
