COLUMN KYLE SMITH
PHOTOGRAPHY NOOR HAMIDULLAH
Teenage life is full of very few constants: drama, schoolwork, hormones, and Taylor Swift. So, when Swift announced that she was bringing her most recent...
COLUMN AUDREY ALLEN
PHOTOGRAPHY RILEY HIGGINS
A 12-year-old girl scrolls on her TikTok for you page. She watches a “What I Eat in a Day” video, a trendy clothing try on haul, and a workout video....
COLUMN NATALIE MAZEY
PHOTOGRAPHY AUDREY ALLEN
When Alec Baldwin, while performing a scene with a prop gun, accidentally shot and killed a woman on the set of his movie “Rust”, I wondered how this...
COLUMN NATALIE MAZEY
PHOTOGRAPHY MARLEIGH WINTERBOTTOM
The term “gifted” was handed to me in second grade. I did not see it as a gift. I saw it as a label affixed to me after a strange lady took...
COLUMN MARLEIGH WINTERBOTTOM
PHOTOGRAPHY OLIVIA RIGNEY
I sat speechless as a man walked confidently up to the stand, with 30 seconds left in the public comment section, closing out the night at a Lakota...
story by Riley Higgins | photography by Abbie Westendorf | art by Shiloh Wolfork
Flipping through the daily mail after school one afternoon, I came across an unsettling sight. As per usual, during any...
story by Mia Hilkowitz | photography by Riley Higgins | art by Shiloh Wolfork
Rodney Hulin Jr. was 17 years old when he committed suicide in his Brazoria County Federeal Prision cell.
Two years before...
column by Brayden Barger | photography by Riley Higgins
Turning 18 definitely comes with its perks. I don’t have any more driving restrictions, I have a lot more job options, and I can get married if...
column by Rebecca Breland | photography by Alexandra Fernholz
To the kids I’ve spent the last 12 years of my life with, to the kids who’ve been with me through it all, to the kids who’ve made me...
column by Ava Huelskamp | art by Cassandra Mueller
Pregnant.
The result of the ClearBlue pregnancy test belonging to the 750,000 teenage girls every year who make a trip to their local Walgreens after...
column by Emily Hormann | art by Cassandra Mueller
“My family denied, and still denies, my identity.”
The bustling conversations taking place around the room fall silent, heeding way for the girl’s...
