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The best reads on the Internet this week, suggestions on what to watch, read, and listen to, and a song for your weekend.

Over the past year, nearly 3,800 incidents have been reported to Stop AAPI Hate. Incidents happened to women more than twice as much as men, and over 42% of the incidents happened to Chinese Americans. It’s clear they’re spurred in part by racism linked to the ‘demic which was fueled by our past president. But COVID didn’t…

This has been a tough week. I think many of you can relate. The reality that comes with a one-year anniversary of the ‘demic hit me like a ton of bricks (or like a week of terrible sleep). It made me realize how incredibly exhausting this year has been. Last March, I was fearful about…

March 1st 2020 vs March 1st 2021 pic.twitter.com/CPzalHWuRm — Meghan Hug (@meghanhug) March 1, 2021 On Instagram, you can tap Archive and see all your Instagram Stories up to a certain point. Not sure if it’s for everyone, but I can go back to December 2017. Since this year started, I’ve had a habit of…

If you have lived in the DC area any time in ’80s and ’90s, or have taken the Metro, you have likely seen graffiti by street artist Danny Hogg, better known as Cool “Disco” Dan. Hogg grew up in Prince George’s County right on the DC border and had loved drawing since a little kid….

It was 1987, and I was in 7th grade, newly admitted to middle school. It was a culture shock; while I changed elementary schools in 5th grade, the change to middle school was practically overwhelming. From being liked for my brain and how fun I was at recess, popularity in middle school seemed to be…

Back in the early days of blogging, there was a taskbar at the top of Blogspot blogs with a button that if pressed, would send you randomly to another Blogspot blog. With this button, I found bloggers across the blogs discussing so many different topics, sharing details about their different lives. Through this button, I…