Antagolist • 11th September 2025

Political Violence Has No Place in Our Country

Yesterday at work, I went on lunch break with two colleagues. The usual casual chatter suddenly swerved: Did you hear Charlie Kirk got killed? My friends gasped: Oh my God, really? How? Where? I replied: There’s a video of it, you didn’t see? No, show me! — they demanded in unison.I pulled out my phone, that infamous device carrying death, blood, and the breathless children whose limbs I’ve seen dangling from walls these past two years, and searched for a video of Charlie Kirk’s execution. I rol...

Antagolist • 4th September 2025

Why Are We Making Movies About an Ongoing Genocide Instead of Working to Stop It?

When I first heard the news about the ‘Voice of Hind Rajab’ movie being released, backed by a Hollywood A-list producer team, my first reaction was — great, it’s super important this gets made for all the world to see. For everyone who isn’t already aware of what the Israeli army is capable of, to see them pummel 335 bullets into the body of a 6-year-old girl, while claiming self-defense.I went to sleep and woke up feeling uneasy about it. My digestive system always gives me the best instincts....

Antagolist • 5th March 2025

No Other Land: Breaking Through the Noise

‘No Other Land’ has won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. The fact that this movie doesn’t even have a US distributor but now holds an Oscar is yet another irony in the tangled discourse that has defined Palestine’s reality for the past 76 years. Nonetheless, it’s colossal. The idea of the nation will always find ways to endure—and perhaps even rise on the Oscar stage—despite relentless efforts to erase it from both theaters and the land itself.The initial shock and disbelief of hearing a...

Antagolist • 26th February 2025

Humanity Gets It

Nothing like waking up to find Western philosophy’s finest relics tastefully scattered across the ruins of Gaza—courtesy of artificial intelligence—right there on your screen. Golden statues, cash raining from the sky, gluttony—nothing says civilization like dropping symbols of excess onto the ground zero of a genocide you funded and committed.That video.Trump shared this AI-generated art piece, but you just know a Zionist made it. They tag-teamed this one. Just as they tag-teamed the genocide.C...

Antagolist • 16th December 2023

Who Ordered a Hit on Harry?

After seeing the masks drop over the past three months—from the government, the establishment, and especially the media—it’s hard not to view everything through a lens of suspicion. Every piece of information now feels like an attempt at propaganda. Our perspective has changed, and every aspect of our lives is seen differently. We’re on high alert. Who can blame us?With everything I read or watch, I immediately question who put it there for me to consume. I analyze every historical event present...

Antagolist • 12th October 2023

This Is What You Came For

Taylor Swift has a new boyfriend. Possibly! Maybe? We need this. Lately, the world has been exceptionally exhausting.; a joyous event unfolding before our eyes, even if carefully crafted in some PR office, we’ll take it. Lie to us! But lie well. So far it has been well. Someone on Twitter phrased it beautifully: “It’s awesome, it’s fun and it’s American culture in all its corn-syrup glory. Are you not entertained?”. Yes we are @awi_sinha, yes we are.Some could say we discovered Travis Kelce thro...

Antagolist • 4th October 2023

Walking in Other Women's Shoes

Two years ago, an unlikely place held a valuable lesson for me. I’m not sure I deserved it, nor I was proud of how I got it, but it was mine, nonetheless.2021 proved to be exceptionally challenging, perhaps the most trying year I've ever faced, in terms of dealing with people. Post-lockdown year created, bred, and nurtured many beasts moonlighting as humans. These vultures seemed to sense your vulnerabilities and needs, approaching under the guise of empathy and assistance, only to toy with you...

Antagolist • 22nd September 2023

Stop Disturbing Women You’re Not Ready For

I popped onto Twitter the other day, scrolled through my timeline a bit, and within a few minutes, I ran into three interesting Tweets:Why does it seem like everyone is always on the same page at the same time? I often stumble upon things that precisely correspond with the thoughts I'm currently having. Do I seek it? Or they just find me?Guys are exhausting. Women are too, we all are exhausting at times, but men are a tailor-made, special kind of exhausting. I’ve always been a tomboy and constan...

Antagolist • 19th August 2023

The Summer That Freed Me from Teen Dramas

There’s just something about the low-stakes teen dramas that nourishes our soul. Is it a connection to our childhood, a reminder of how the shows we watched influenced our journey in this world? It’s comforting to me, even at this age; I don’t think I will ever outgrow a good TV triangle, and a bit of banter between the lockers. Dawson’s Creek, 90210, One Three Hill, My So-Called Life, I’m powerless to it. It’s my ultimate feel-good indulgence.This summer, a new TV triangle rolled into town. The...

Antagolist • 27th July 2023

Barbenheimer: Public Relations Move or Trojan Horse?

I promised myself I wouldn’t write about this. We are choking with Barbie opinion pieces. What is Barbenheimer anyway? Someone invented a name, a term, and we all just went for it? I’m aware it’s just a PR move to get us all back into the theaters, but it worries me how obedient we became. Why are we listening? How are these two movies even related? You can’t tell me there weren’t films worth seeing last year or so. I never really dreamt of Barbies. I was one. The last thing I wanted was another...

Antagolist • 17th May 2023

Queen Charlotte: A Triumph of Mental Health Conversation

I was convinced there is no story or a season out of Bridgerton universe that’ll seduce me more than Season 2 and the Viscount/Sharma bonanza, yet it did. ‘Queen Charlotte’ floored me. If you’ve already watched it, proceed; if you still didn’t - this article contains spoilers.According to Deadline Magazine, the Bridgerton-verse is ruling Netflix. Queen Charlotte has amassed 307M hours viewed and is quickly making its way to becoming one of Netflix’s most popular series of all time. It’s expected...

Antagolist • 7th May 2023

Boomer-Zero Takes the Crown

In the research for this article, I ran into Caitlin Flanagan of The Atlantic calling King Charles a “Boomer Zero” and I can’t unsee it.BOOMER ZERO!It explains so much, and most importantly - summarizes the Coronation and the new reign under Charles in two neat words.I don’t even have to write my take on the Coronation, I can just write Boomer Zero in the title, leave the whole page blank and you’d get the point.We clearly see a shift after Elizabeth II’s death. People are disheartened. There’s...

Antagolist • 14th April 2023

You Don't Need More Friends

Folks, it’s purge season. Society is trying to pressure you into thinking you need more friends. You don't. You need friendship minimalism.This is your reminder to wipe the dust from those boundaries you set up but never actually placed in action. Society tricked you into thinking you need hordes of friends, so you tolerate things from people who use your kindness, empathy, and vulnerability to exploit you and have leverage over you to feel better about their own desolate lives.Every time you fe...

Antagolist • 30th March 2023

Benign Success or Magnificent Failure?

I’m a big believer in regularly reminding ourselves of who we are. The pace of life we’re on is hectic and fast, it’s easy to forget who we used to be, what we liked, what got our hearts running. What was our passion? What did we collect as kids? What formed us to be what we are today? And what part did we lose along the way?Today, we need to remind ourselves even harder. The uncertainty the pandemic left us; careers shifted, jobs lost, new ones we never got - the struggle to reinvent ourselves...

Antagolist • 12th March 2023

The Irish Oscars

In 2009, I wrote my first blog. It was the night of the Golden Globes when Tina Fey told her internet haters to suck it on a national stage, and the night Colin Farrell picked up the Best Actor for his role in In Bruges.When he got on stage, he was sniffing a tad bit or his nose was running, and he said, also on national television, while picking up the award: “This is from the cold, not that other stuff it used to be.”He came a long way from that night in 2009. Or, he actually made the beautifu...

Antagolist • 27th February 2023

An Intro to Retroactive Jealousy

I used to write a lot about why men do what they do. I analyzed them to a point of unconsciousness, thinking if I break them down diligently, I would somehow instigate a shift in dubious behaviors. Men don’t bother me as of late. I understand why they do what they do. It makes sense to me, even their shittiest actions. I understand their logic behind it, even if they do me no well.Women bother me as of late. I feel betrayed by every silly, illogical, insecure, hateful action women do. Men can’t...

Antagolist • 16th February 2023

I Come for the Social Commentary, I Stay for the Murders

I didn’t expect to be mesmerized by You on Netflix as much as I am. When a movie or a tv-show is made based on a book, I usually want to read the book first. I want to imagine the visuals of the characters, and places on my own, and not have the optics decided for me. Then, I’d like to see how someone else imagined it by putting it on a big screen.I didn’t read You by Caroline Kepnes first, and I will forever regret it. I watched it first. Then read it. And even in that order, it was an unbeliev...

Antagolist • 5th February 2023

‘Pamela, a Love Story’ Is No Curated Experience

My friend Brandon often tells me - “Miranda, society peaked in the ‘90s”. And sometimes he tells me he’s jealous I got to be a teenager and a young adult then and do all the stupidly cool things people did in the ‘90s.If you give me the option to be 20 right now, today, and erase the ‘90s from my memory and all my experiences, I would not take you up on that. Those times were priceless. You can’t have them.When I say the society peaked in the ‘90s, I don’t mean all the misogyny and sexism withou...

Antagolist • 26th January 2023

Why ‘Spare’ Is About a Much-Needed Media Reform

I usually write about things that move me immediately after I experience them—strike while the iron is hot, method style. ’Spare’, I wanted to read it at my own pace and observe the surrounding noise before offering my opinion.It’s unchanged.Although it amuses us endlessly, a discourse about Prince Harry and his family is ultimately about a much-needed media reform. Given that his family is in cahoots with tabloids, they are inevitably swept along on Harry’s takedown train.To the superficial eye...

Antagolist • 16th January 2023

Misogyny & Flawed Femininity

It took me a while to start watching The White Lotus. Well, two months. Not exactly a punishable offense; one simply doesn’t have time to watch everything, and the sheer volume of content out there is overwhelming. Too much noise. And writing and Netflix don’t exactly make the best pair.But when so many people praise a single show, day in and day out, I eventually gave in. The verdict was in: take a day off and binge.Sometimes, I watch or read something and feel flustered by the sheer amount of...

Antagolist • 6th January 2023

San Juan, Ghosting, Wine & World Cup

We made it. Despite everything that happened to you, you are here. You managed. You survived. And you also thrived. Give yourself some credit right now, while reading this; your past year was full of challenges and trespassers trying to get in the way of your peace, and you survived them all with a stable head on your shoulders.They did not damage you.They just taught you.Sit in this realization for a few minutes. Let that marinate.I launched this platform last year with the plan and a promise t...

Antagolist • 23rd December 2022

Football Is a Metaphor for Life

When I first heard the ’22 World Cup is to be held in Qatar, a non-football country, in the middle of the winter, I was offended. How dare you? World Cup is an event, the occurrence you watch in your tank top and shorts, half drunk in the middle of the day, talking smack with your friends and anonymous enemies online belonging to a country yours is playing against.This was blasphemy, I thought. You robbed us of this, I thought.And yet, this particular World Cup and all its dramaturgy worth of a...

12th December 2022

Battle Royale: Harry and Meghan on Netflix

I didn’t want to be here again. Yet here we are. On Friday morning, I woke up to 24 messages in my inbox, all with the same subject — Harry & Meghan on Netflix. I watched it on Thursday night before I fell asleep in the middle of Episode 3. I still haven’t finished it, it’s the World Cup right now and I don’t have the energy for two rough, world sporting events.

14th November 2022

To Be Unpleasant About the Influence of Others

There's a phrase I heard two years ago that I can’t shake. Every issue, crisis, or phenomenon I read about—this phrase explains it. It feels like the universal reason behind almost every unpleasant occurrence in public discourse.