Melissa Adams

COVID has isolated us from one another in innumerable ways. These days, I feel like most of my day-to-day interactions are parasocial exchanges on platforms […]

April 23, 2021

MELISSA ADAMS

Getting to the Root of Identity

Over the course of the last two years, I’ve gone through more hairstyles than I can count on one hand. Starting off 2020 with manic-pixie-dream-girlish […]

April 16, 2021

MELISSA ADAMS

Mel’s COVID-19 Report on Social Media

Like many of us, I’ve spent a good deal of the last year living online. In fact, I’ve spent so much time on Zoom that […]

March 26, 2021

MELISSA ADAMS

Courtship, Class and Consent: A Review of Netflix’s ‘Bridgerton’

Contains spoilers for the first season of “Bridgerton.” Over winter break, as screen time increasingly filled my days, “Bridgerton” appeared on my radar, and I […]

February 4, 2021

MELISSA ADAMS

HalloWKND 2020: A Reflection

As an international student on campus for the fall semester, I came to Yale highly excited to celebrate the mythical, almost cultish commercial holiday that […]

October 29, 2020

MELISSA ADAMS

The Return of PEN15: Reaching New Depths

Spoilers up to S2E7 of PEN15 follow. As expected following the success of its 2019 debut, “PEN15” didn’t fail to deliver with a depressingly and […]

October 8, 2020

MELISSA ADAMS

The Quandaries of Quarantine Cuffing Season

Let me preface this article by saying that I wasn’t looking for Love in the Time of Corona. In fact, I was trying to avoid […]

September 24, 2020