Published Work

Greta Thunberg’s War on Imagination

Greta Thunberg isn’t just fighting a war on climate change. She is launching a full-blown assault on our collective imagination.

The Single Woman: From Spinster to Self-Partnered

The term 'self-partnered’ doesn’t suggest that we have to be alone, rather it softly reminds us that there is a value in being with ourselves.

On Why I Write and Why I Don’t

Sometimes I look at my computer screen, at all of the words that I’ve written and all of those that have yet to show themselves to me, and I have the sense to think that I’m looking into a cracked mirror that I don’t quite comprehend.

Toni Morrison,

in her own voice

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders's documentary, 'Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am,' reveals the author's strength and sharp wit, surprising no one.

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Tracking this season’s hot new trend: Environmentalism

Climate change was all the talk for Fall 2019, but how do we make the jump from runway to reality?

Hustle porn is making and breaking us

Experts say long hours are wrecking havoc on our mental health—so why do we continue to fetishize the hustle?

Move over Millennials—make space for Gen Z

As Gen Zers come of age, a new survey finds them more open-minded, driven, industrious, and passionate than the generations before them.

Amy Winehouse and the dead celebrity hologram industry

With the advent of the technology to create walking, talking, and singing images of deceased celebrities—should we even create these apparitions for commercial exploitation?

It only takes one form and $95 to get an abortion pill in the mail

Aid Access allows those who are less than ten weeks pregnant, living within one hour of a hospital, and being of normal health order abortion...

Should the passenger pigeon come back from the dead?

Ben Novak, the American scientist who has invested the past six years of his life on developing a process known as de-extinction, thinks so.

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Your favorite Disney princess is illegal in Kuwait

Kuwait has banned over 4,000 books in the last five years, including Disney's The Little Mermaid, One Hundred Years of Solitude, and Why We Write.

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THE LIFE OF PACHAS

"In Colombia, there’s a word we use, and none of us know what it means. This is a personal chronology as an attempt at an etymology."

Return of the #PolaroidOriginals

For a generation constantly bombarded with fabricated images, of pictures and social media pages where the majority is struggling just to fit in, Polaroids provide a chance for us to be original, and that might be more than enough.

BIRDMAN: REALITY TAKES FLIGHT

Serpa examines how the film Birdman blurs the line between fact and fiction, forcing its viewers to question their certainty about what is real. Her review highlights several conventions of this genre, crafting vivid representations of pivotal scenes and drawing on outside research to inform her analysis