Michelle Santiago Cortés

This year, I’ve spent more money than I feel comfortable admitting on making my life and myself more beautiful than ever. I’ve always found inspiration

Earlier this week, a heat wave blazing through Vancouver killed millions of mussels, snails, and clams; they were boiled alive in their shells. Meanwhile,

Now is the time to be as hot as humanly possible. There was a lot we couldn’t access during lockdown, like travel, dates, and family. But, the few things

Every June, queer people across the internet — especially on Twitter and, more recently, TikTok — engage in an important Pride tradition: dunking on th

After a year-plus inside, the time for “coming out” is finally here — though it’s not as clean a slate as we expected, nor is it as explosive a beg

There is, once again, a trendy term going viral. A term that is dividing generations and genders. A term that groups a number of food, fashion, decor, and

In February, a small US Latina-owned business that specializes in scented lip glosses and scrubs went viral on TikTok for an audio clip that began, “

Do you ever dream of finding out your horrible mother sold you — messy bun and all — to be a One Direction sex slave? Or are you more familiar with th

The internet is often lauded as a technicolour cyberscape where lonely queer kids can find like-minded people and feel less alone. If you spend enough time

When the pandemic first started, we were quick with the jokes and the memes, but we still called the pandemic by its name. A year later, and the jokes and

Toys — whether shop-bought or home-made — coloured our childhoods; we woke up to them in the morning, shampooed them in the bathtub, brushed their hair

It’s a startling scene: Very online millennials, known for being loud, proud and often viciously gatekeeper-y about internet culture, are now invested in

The US inauguration is now underway, and while the air is still heavy with concern about potential violence from the far-right, the internet is crawling wi

“No Thoughts. Head Empty. Just Vibes” is 2020’s version of “Keep Calm and Carry On.” After spending all year calculating the potentially deadly c

“Fleets” is trending on Twitter because it’s Twitter’s latest update. “Stories” is trending because it’s basicall

TikTokers are back to trolling Trump. This time, they are sharing videos of prank calls to his campaign’s voter fraud hotline and encouraging others

You know when you have a song stuck in your head and the depth of your being says: “we can’t go on unless we figure out what this song is.̶

You know the meme: “There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.” It’s almost tiring at this point. We are all perfectly aware that