Archives - Allie Tay
culture
RICE Crew dances across borders
If there’s any place to enjoy EXO’s Love Shot on repeat, Shape of You remixes, or to people-watch (K-pop edition), look no further than a RICE Crew practice.
Artist review
‘My Messy Mind’ has a personality of its own
Her music screams for your attention, but in a natural “you know you’ll find yourself here” and not in a “LOOK AT ME” type of way.
friendship
Spill the T(ay)!: To everyone, everything, that’s no longer mine
You left so many pieces of you with me — I’m a mosaic. You gave me pretty stained glass, and when you left it cracked into shards.
cultural holidays
Why your New Year’s resolutions should be indulgently impossible
It was two days after New Year’s, but I sat down and made The List anyway just because Why Not.
ever better
Quiz: Should you overload next semester?
Do you have friends/a social life? "A. If my laptop, iPad, and three-foot stack of biology notes count, then yes."
bts
On BTS, K-pop, and toxic fan culture
I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve heard people offhandedly refer to K-pop lovers as all “fangirls” or “Koreaboos.”
asia
Spill the T(ay!): Lost in translation
Once every few years, I got a taste of what it feels to be an outsider in my own culture, peering in. I was a girl lost in translation.
Black Feminism
Black feminism in action
Professor McCune stressed, “it is the cause of Black feminism that we unpack the way White supremacy perpetually enacts violence through the intersection.”
music
Spill the T(ay!): A secret that cannot be told
When you lose a part of yourself, it never really comes back completely. I didn’t time travel when I played anymore.
UR Joking
A guide to first-year attachment styles
The math isn’t mathing, and that’s good because it’s going to confuse the anxious-ambivalents, which was our goal all along.
