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By Kriti Rajbar, Trinity College Student I think not enough people recognize the difference between representation, and a caricature. So, let’s figure out the distinction between those two words together. The dictionary defines representation as “the description or portrayal of someone or something

By Megan Atmadjaja, Trinity College Student For the first time in cinematic history, a non-Hollywood production topped the 2020’s worldwide box office. This record is held by a popular Japanese anime, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train, that managed to make USD 503 million sinc

By Kien-Ling Liem, Editor, Trinity College Student The injustices towards Indigenous Americans is possibly one of the most unfair. With their land being stolen from them by colonizers, they have been mistreated, executed and still lack the proper representation today. The Indigenous Americans shoul

By Kien-Ling Liem, Editor, Trinity College Student Fast fashion is a forever consuming entrapment of capitalism – the industry, through cheap, illegal labour and excessive waste, gives us little to no affordable alternatives such as sustainable fashion. Fast fashion is defined as ‘a highly profita

By Kriti Rajbar, Trinity College Student (Scroll down for ways to help) People struggling to escape Kabul, via www.geo.tv Afghanistan has long been a land inflicted with hardships. There has been conflict there for the past forty years, starting with the Soviet-Afghan war. This battle was trig

By Kriti Chand Rajbar, Trinity College Student The absorbing showdown that was the 2020 UEFA European Football Championship (better known as Euro 2020) just concluded on Sunday night. For those who don’t know, Euro 2020 was an international men's football championship of Europe. Italy won the final

By Kien-Ling Liem, Trinity College Student Performative activism is a very common and widespread term in today’s society. With the rise of awareness of social injustices, people have been using social media as the key way to spread information, whether it be real or not. It is defined as ‘a pej

By Kien-Ling Liem, Editor, Trinity College Student With the rise of social media and technology, online influencers have become increasingly popular. Some of these online influencers could be full-grown, well-developed adults, but unfortunately many of them are still teenagers, just like you and m

By Kriti Chand Rajbar, Trinity College Student Nauru is an island country in Oceania. As it only has an area of 8.1 sq mi, Nauru is the third-smallest country in the world and the smallest republic.  Nauru is perhaps best known as a remote site used by the Australian government for the offshore

By Kriti Chand Rajbar, Trinity College Student India recorded more than 400,000 daily new cases on May 6. This is the largest single day spike in the world. A day later, India broke the record of highest daily death toll with 4,187 COVID-19 related deaths.  This massive second wave of COVID-19

By Megan Atmadjaja, Trinity College Student, for Kolom Remaja The use of social media becomes a necessity in today’s society. The media is a valuable communication tool as it helps us interact with others locally and globally. It also eases our access to news, entertainment content, catalogs and a

By Kien-Ling Liem, Editor, Trinity College Student As defined by Oxford Languages, representation literally is the ‘description or portrayal of someone or something in a particular way’. It's the way we see people, and the way they see us. When a demographic of people are portrayed a certain way, w

By Kriti Rajbar, Trinity College Student The Marvel Cinematic Universe is one of the most popular movie franchises in history. As of August 2021, the series was the highest-grossing film franchise with total worldwide box office revenue of 22.93 billion U.S. dollars. Since the release of Iron Man i

By Kien-Ling Liem, Editor, Trinity College Student Unfortunately, in this day and age, feminism has been distorted into a man-hating movement, stopping many men from supporting women’s rights. But what they don’t realise is that feminism can do so much more for them than the patriarchy, which is t

By Kien-Ling Liem, Editor, Trinity College Student Fish out of water, season 3, episode 4 *warning: this article contains spoilers. BoJack Horseman is a Netflix original comedy that aired in 2014. It features a total of 6 seasons and 77 episodes. Drugged up, self-loathing and an overall torture

By Kien-Ling Liem, Editor, Trinity College Student Coined in 1989 by Kimberlé Crenshaw, the term intersectionality is a fairly new concept to some and the face of every feminist and human rights movement. Image via AAUP Who is Kimberlé Crenshaw? Crenshaw is a 60-year-old Ohio professor at b

By Kien-Ling Liem, Editor, Trinity College Student On February 1st, 2021, the Myanmar military took control of the nation once again. Ever since, the people have been in constant fear from the people that were supposed to protect them. A full, detailed outline of events since then is linked here.

By Kejie Zhu (Jay), Trinity College Student Recently, there has been a flood in Zhengzhou, China (Henan province). Jay has written a few words of encouragement! These days, the sea has come to see us; the people of Zhengzhou are helpless. As much rain fell in just three days as in the past year,

By Kriti Chand Rajbar, Trinity College Student SisterWorks is a Melbourne-based social enterprise that works to “support women who are refugees, asylum seekers or migrants to improve their confidence, mental well-being, sense of belonging and economic outlook.” You can buy gift hampers, locally m