This transit indicates a nudge from the cosmos towards revolution. Saturn and Uranus square each other only once every 22 years. The transit has peaked twice already — in February and June — and is set to peak again in December. The time has come to rebelliously shatter the structures…

Let’s face it: life’s hard. Its unpredictable. There isn’t a step by step guide to do it right. It can be hard to calm your body and mind after intense stress. So I have created a step by step guide for it. Grieve. Cry. Scream. Break something! Let your emotions…

Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher and moralist poet, was allegedly one of the greatest known minds of the time. He was a controversial writer, critiquing traditional values such as organized religion and democratic institutions. He introduced two concepts, “slave” morality and “master” morality, which connote how human beings perceive themselves within…

I saw a quote once that said: “Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people.” Although laughable, the quote does have some truth to it. A lot of people feel pressured to carry on traditions: they feel superstitious about what may happen if the traditions aren’t carried out, or ashamed…

A magic realist short story, Isabel Allende’s Two Words is a tale of a poor woman who grew up with nothing, her only skill being enduring inhumane treatment and surviving inhabitable conditions, transformed herself into a writer. With her passion from words, she started selling stories and used that revenue…

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles argue in The Communist Manifesto that throughout all known history there has been a struggle between the haves and the have-nots. Early in the excerpt he introduces this idea to us, establishing without question that to be human is to participate in a class struggle…

Octavia Estelle Butler grew up a shy, Black girl in Pasadena that grew up to be one of the most influential science-fiction writers of this generation. Born in 1947, she was raised by her mother and grandmother as her father became ill and died in her infancy. She developed a…

Phillis Wheatley, abducted from Gambia in childhood and sold into American slavery, was the first published Black American writer and one of the first American women writers, yet her name and work is left out of most conversations centering Black writers and even Black women writers. In Black feminist circles…

“A tree is a passage between earth and sky. (56)” From nearly every cultural group for all of recorded history, human beings have resonated deeply with trees. This is demonstrated by their inclusion of trees in myths and stories. There are countless myths where trees play a crucial role, especially…