Category archives: Life

Their tweets, YouTube videos, and ‘grams helped make this year suck a little bit less

I have become an expert at finding patterns and reading self-help books. But they still don’t give me the answers I’m looking for.

I’m happy my parents got divorced. But I’m still really scared to love.

Third Culture Kids combine their respective birth and adopted cultures to make a third, distinct identity — one about which they’re often unsure and can never straightforwardly describe.

The best pieces published on MTV Founders in 2016.

Diary of a Professional Teen is a weekly column of #deep thoughts by twentysomething teenager and youth expert Taylor Trudon. Every Thursday, she’ll talk about her feelings in relation to what it’s like to be a Young Person in 2016. There’s this part at the end of The Edge of Seventeen, the new coming-of-age film… Read more »

Supergirl originated as a DC Comics character in the late 1950s. With her voluminous blonde hair and piercing blue eyes, she became the ultimate American heroine. Like her kin, Superman, Supergirl epitomizes the idea of an unbreakable spirit in a world plagued by corruption and greed. While we hardly share a physical resemblance — I… Read more »

I am never asking to be harassed, no matter what I’m wearing, where I am, or what I’m doing. But it’s easy to blame myself if it happens.

For me, “getting pretty” meant finally feeling comfortable in my own skin — even if I knew that comfort was based on a beauty standard that shouldn’t exist in the first place.

I distinctly remember the moment when my summer-program professor announced to a Stanford University lecture hall full of students that same-sex marriage had been legalized in the U.S. I remember joining in the flurry of movement, whooping along with everyone’s ecstatic cheers — which seemed to last forever even though they were really just a… Read more »