by Georgia Luckhurst, Montgomery Jones, Dee Putri, and Elisabed Gedevanishvili When a teenage girl says she’s the victim of a secret network called The Sisterhood of Night, a quiet suburban town becomes the backdrop for a modern-day Salem witch trial. Based on the short story by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steven Millhauser, “The Sisterhood of Night”…
by Dee Putri I had never been a leader before. I don’t have that charisma–you know, like Ellen Page with her coolness, or Hillary Clinton with her powerful presence? I’m not one of them. I wasn’t born with it; I’m this shy girl. I do have opinions, but sometimes I just feel that it is…
by Dee Putri Talking about girls’ friendship is very confusing, because it feels like it comes with a lot ofdrama and gossip. One day a girl can hate another girl, and the next they can be friends, even best friends! Being a girl is complicated, confusing, with no exact rules, but that doesn’t mean our…
by Dee Putri Recently there was a blood stain on my pants after I couldn’t change my tampon for 10 hours because I was away. I noticed it at home, which is kind of okay, because it would totally have freaked me out if I’d noticed while I’d been in public–I would have had to…
by Dee Putri Recently, I watched Where the Wild Things Are. This is a children’s movie, but I really love it. You know that in children’s movies, there are always protagonists and antagonists that kids can tell apart easily. The protagonist is the kind person who smiles a lot, helps a lot, and is too…
by Dee Putri A few days ago, I watched a documentary about wars (which was depressing) that showed an interview with an old lady who had experienced war. The story itself was traumatizing for me–I always get super depressed whenever I read or watch something about war. The second thing that I noticed about her…
by Dee Putri Waria is a term used in Indonesian for assigned-male-at-birth (AMAB) transgender people. It originally comes from words wanita (woman) and pria (man). (Indonesian loves to make acronyms, I’ll tell you.) Seeing waria on the street is not strange; I see them everyday working as pengamen – street performers. They usually sing in intersections or near food booths. I’d…
by Dee Putri First. I think the first people who have expectation of us are our parents. In Indonesia, gender is really important to parents–they really want a boy or they really want a girl. I’ve seen childhood photos of a male friend of mine in skirts because his mom really wanted to have a…