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Poetry and Short Fiction

Kernel Magazine:
  • all the better to see you with​
8Poems:
  • "Three-Act Eden"
Figure One:
  • "Verboten"
Apogee Journal:
  • "Exhibition Match"
Baram House:
  • "Family Business"
  • "The Egg"
  • "Liminal"

Essays (Opinion, Advocacy, Personal)

Post45 Contemporaries:
  • Heteropessimism cluster: How do we write about love of cock?

San Francisco Chronicle:
  • There's still reason to be worried about a national abortion ban

The Point Magazine:
  • Closeness without consequence

Rewire.org:
  • Wine or Whiskey: The Women Challenging Alcohol Gender Norms
  • A Travel Guide to Globe-Trotting with a Conscience
  • Why Are There Judges On Your Ballot?
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Bust Magazine:
  • "The Redistribution of Gardening" - A Response to Ross Douthat's "Redistribution of Sex"

The Atlantic:
  • Letter to the Editor in Response to Conor Friedersdorf's article on democratic socialism and minorities
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The Bold Italic:
  • How It Feels When Your Friends Get Rich
  • ​Why You Should Think Twice About Calling the Police on Homeless People​​

​Women's Media Center:
  • Sexual Harassment in Academia: What Now?
  • New Girls: Looking for the Allure in Feminism
  • Why Teens' Attitudes Matter

Berkeley Political Review:
  • ​The Social Bad in Selling Social Good
  • Popping the Berkeley Bubble
  • American Sniper: Opposing Scopes
  • December Berkeley Protests: Where Do We Go From Here?
  • A Freshman's Perspective on the Recent Police Brutality Protest
  • Hipsters, Murals, and Putin's New Youth Movement
  • Children Left Behind: the ADHD Epidemic and Problems in American Education
  • The Hyde Amendment: Disproportionately Affecting American Women Since 1976​​
Wikimedia Foundation:
  • A bunch of media just entered the public domain. Here's why that matters
  • Making the invisible seen: Berkeley event connects artists and academia to improve representation on Wikipedia

Huffington Post:
  • Data-Driven Everything
  • The Asian Beauty Problem
  • 'Humanities Folks' Need to Pay Attention to STEM, and Vice Versa
  • Keeping Up with the Joneses, When the Joneses Are High Schoolers
  • Would You Buy This For Your Daughter?

Mashable:
  • 5 Suggestions for Better STEM Education, from Students
  • I'm 15 and All My Friends Use Facebook​

Shriver Report:
  • Dare to Say the F-Word

Gates Foundation:
  • My Hope for 2030

Berkeley Student Journal of Asian Studies:
  • "Dark India" and the Ministry of Utmost Happiness
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Essays on Medium:
  • New Rules: The tech-enabled mind games of modern dating suck. Let's put an end to them
  • An Open Letter: Thursday night, an uncomfortable flirtation, and how it all could have been different
  • Killing the Nice Girl: Reflections on speaking up and quieting down
  • Officer O'Reilly: What bogeymen, sisterhood, and walking alone taught me about "staying safe"

Interviews and Profiles

The Adroit Journal:
  • Against Assimilation: A Conversation with Nicole Chung

UC Berkeley Social Science Matrix:
  • Urban Planning in China's 'Ecological Civilization'
  • Changing the Face of Economics
  • ​A Tax to Support 'Made in the USA'
  • Dr. Charis Thompson and Critique in the Age of Trump
  • Bikes and the Changing City
  • Network Survival Method
  • Racism and Heart Health
  • Envisioning Inclusive Geography

Make Magazine:
  • Patent Pandas: How One Maker Is Turning Her Horrible Experience Into a Force for Good

Wogrammer:
  • The Hidden Value of Detours: How a serendipitous stumble into a cyber-cafe catalyzed Gladys Maina's IT career
  • Breaking Down Walls with Open Source: Srishti Sethi's developer advocacy at the Wikimedia Foundation

Education

TED and TED Ed:
  • ​Advice from a young TED speaker: start a TED-Ed Club at your school
  • What's so super about superheroes? This teen speaker explains
  • TED-Ed Clubs asks: how do you talk about depression?
  • Islamophobia through the eyes of a middle school student
  • Be part of the creative movement for girls' education
  • 3 storytelling tips for TED-Ed Clubs
  • Becoming Spiderman may be easier than you think: a TED-Ed Club talk on genetically modified humans
  • Does school prepare students for the real world? This teen speaker says no​

Mashable:
  • 5 Ground-Breaking Competitions for Innovative Youth
  • 5 Social Good Websites Aimed at Youth
  • 5 Ways Classrooms Can Use Video Conferencing​

​Edutopia:
  • 5 Ways to Empower Students

Humor

The Bold Italic:
  • Your Life at a San Francisco Nonprofit

Academic Writing

Columbia South Asia Review:
  • From Nation-Building to Nation-Buying: Selling a Neoliberal Vision of Development in the New India​

Berkeley Student Journal of Asian Studies:
  • Trouble in Paradise: Auroville and the Limits of Utopia
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